Sentences with phrase «merely confess»

In fact, I discovered, it was not only enough but actually much better to contemplate them than to merely confess them as true.

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The call to confession «invite people to get in touch with themselves and asks where they feel some empty spaces in their lives» (symbolized by a display of empty, clear plastic bags on the communion table), as if admitting emptiness were the same as confessing sin, and as if sin were merely the absence of good.

Woody confesses that he doesn't know what the meaning of life is, but he feels sure its purpose is not merely hedonistic: «We are not put here to have a good time and that's what throws most of us, that sense that we all have an inalienable right to a good time.»

I confess that there was a period in my life when I wondered if praying was merely a historically sanctioned procedure for challenging me to bring the separate aspects of my psyche into some kind of integration.

He merely inverts the ID equation and confesses his own personal incredulity at the idea that nature — containing so much that is inefficient, ungainly, brutal, wasteful, abortive, and ill - formed — could be the product of a designing intelligence.

Here Jesus is confessed as not merely a prophet from God, not merely a performer of unique miracles, but, as the Lord, one to be worshiped (9:38).

The point of this section, then, is not merely that Peter confesses Jesus as the Christ; but also that to be the Christ, the Messiah, means to suffer and die.

We are fortunate to live in a nation that protects us from the «red martyrdoms» that Christians in many parts of the world risk by becoming a Christian believer, but that doesn't mean that, although faithfulness will not make God love us any more or faithlessness will make God love us any less, there are not «white martyrdoms» that will result from attempting to confess our faith with our lives and not merely profess our faith with our mouths.

Others need to believe that you are confessing for the sake of your soul, and not merely for the sake of your career.

To confess our sin is to publicly and specifically acknowledge our need of God, revealed in Jesus Christ, and not merely to assent to a state of sinfulness.

As the teams lined up for the national anthems, Tomaszewski later confessed that he was hoping to merely keep the scoreline respectable.

Bernie's investment in the couple's plight is not merely a mark of maturity in the actor; the performance confesses the sort of attitude and open - mindedness that restores hope for humanity.

He has not confessed to actual fakery, merely to enthusiastic gullibility.

There has been much speculation about this topic (some of which I confess being guilty of), but at the moment it is merely speculation.

Upon its defeat, Dhuran confessed that it, along with Murdaw, Jamirus and Gracos are merely minions of of Mortamor the Archfiend.