Ante-Nicene Fathers/Volume IX/The Epistles of Clement/The First Epistle of Clement to the Corinthians/Chapter 52

Chapter LII.&#8212;Such a Confession is Pleasing to God.

The Lord, brethren, stands in need of nothing; and He desires nothing of any one except that confession be made to Him.&#160; For, says the elect David, &#8220;I will confess unto the Lord; and that will please Him more than a young bullock that hath horns and hoofs.&#160; Let the poor see it, and be glad.&#8221; &#160; And again he saith, &#8220;Offer unto God the sacrifice of praise, and pay thy vows unto the Most High.&#160; And call upon me in the day of thy trouble:&#160; I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me.&#8221; &#160; For &#8220;the sacrifice of God is a broken spirit.&#8221;