I must confess, I'm not the best cook. I make a mean salsa, as I like hot sauce and, you know, tacos, because I'm a California kid, and that's about it.
What?" he asked. "You're staring at me funny." "We're in the wrong movie," I confessed.
I confess I take perverse delight as a theologian in the controversies surrounding postmodernism.
I have no interest in writing confessions, in deliberately baring myself to my readers. I prefer to remain behind a screen.
I confess... if I typo a Facebook post I will edit it. I know it's only Facebook but it's an editing sickness.
Men will confess to treason, murder, arson, false teeth, or a wig. How many of them will own up to a lack of humor?
In the course of my life, I have often had to eat my words, and I must confess that I have always found it a wholesome diet.
God removes the sin of the one who makes humble confession, and thereby the devil loses the sovereignty he had gained over the human heart.
I don't know, maybe it's because I was raised Catholic. Confession has always held a great appeal for me.
I went on a Buddha jag. I read 'Confession of a Buddhist Atheist' by Stephen Batchelor and Karen Armstrong's biography of Buddha, which is a great book.
True, the apostles did not expressly say that people will be saved only if they repent, believe, and confess. But most evangelicals assume - with good reason - that this is what the apostles implied.
A man can look upon his life and accept it as good or evil; it is far, far harder for him to confess that it has been unimportant in the sum of things.
That he delights in the misery of others no man will confess, and yet what other motive can make a father cruel?
It is a most certain truth, that the richer we see ourselves to be, confessing at the same time our poverty, the greater will be our progress, and the more real our humility.
He who confesses magic or sorcery shall do penance for the time of murder, and shall be treated in the same manner as he who convicts himself of this sin.
All writers of confessions from Augustine on down, have always remained a little in love with their sins.
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It’s good to ask questions that make people uncomfortable.
No matter which sex I went to bed with, I never smoked on the street
