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1595 Confession is necessary for fellowship. Sin builds a barrier between us and God.

Erwin W. Lutzer

Confession is, as it were, the vomit of the soul.

Thomas Manton

The beginning of repentance is the confession of guilt.

John Calvin

Before we can minister to others, we must permit God to minister to us. Before we pronounce “woe” upon others, we must sincerely say, “Woe is me!” Isaiah’s conviction led to confession, and confession led to cleansing (1 John 1:9)

Warren W. Wiersbe

5299 The Greek picture of a great man is the picture of a man who is conscious of nothing so much as of his own superiority, a man to whom a confession of need would be a confession of failure. The blessings of the Christian view are for the man conscious of his own poverty, the man sad for his own sins, the man hungry for a goodness which he is sadly conscious that he does not possess.

William Barclay