Our opinions of the world, are confessions of character.
There are constraints on what counts as "Reformed. " It's more than a name or a label. It's about belonging to a particular theological stream or tradition, which is shaped in important respects by particular thinkers and their work, particular arguments and ideas, a particular community (especially, particular church communities, denominations, and so on), particular liturgies or ways of worshipping and living out the Christian life, and particular confessions that inform the practices of these communities.
All confessions are Odysseys.
In the end, like the Almighty Himself, we make everything in our image, for want of a more reliable model; our artifacts tell more about ourselves than our confessions.
Confessions are like tattoos in that 1) You convince yourself that the immediate pain of going through the process means it won't bother you later on; 2) They are permanent.
Always our wars have been our confessions of weakness
You're not going to get any true confessions out of me," she said. "I'm a Leo, and our thing is changing the subject.
I didn't get along with Lindsay Lohan on 'Confessions Of A Teenage Drama Queen', but you have to consider that we were 16-year-old girls. I haven't seen Lindsay since then, but I imagine she's grown and become a different person. I know I have.
Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and the very magnitude of the crime the best excuse for doing nothing.
No confession is inerrant; Reformed Christians are supposed to be those who seek to be constantly reformed according to the Word of God - and that includes our confessions as well.
Evangelical churches are weaker than we realize because we dont teach the confessions and doctrine.
Some secrets should never turn into confessions. I know that better than anyone.
I have heard thousands of confessions, but never one of covetousness.
The divinity of Jesus is made a convenient cover for absurdity. Nowhere in the Gospels do we find a precept for Creeds, Confessions, Oaths, Doctrines, and whole carloads of other foolish trumpery that we find in Christianity.
The great modern novel of the comic-pathetic illusion of freedom is Confessions of Zeno.
I have no interest in writing confessions, in deliberately baring myself to my readers. I prefer to remain behind a screen.
Legal systems, at both the national and international level, are therefore required to recognize, guarantee and protect religious freedom, which is a right intrinsically inherent in human nature, in man's dignity as a free being, and is also an indicator of a healthy democracy and cone of the main sources of the legitimacy of the State. Religious freedom. . . favors the development of relationships of mutual respect between the different Confessions and their healthy collaboration with the State and political society, without confusion of roles and without antagonism.
Personal sins should not require press releases and problems within a family shouldn't have to mean public confessions.
My nature is a quagmire of unresolved confessions.
Our eyes are full of terrible confessions.
