Sentences with phrase «well confess»

I would make it clear if you do or don't believe her, as she may well confess if you express your doubts.

By Debbie Burke We might as well confess.

We might as well confess that if it weren't for Tessa we couldn't do our jobs.

Not exact matches

«I felt in a bit of a slump for a few weeks,» confessed one, which prompted a colleague to chime in, «I've been feeling that way as well.

For instance, best - selling novelist Miranda Beverly - Whittemore confesses to being «a bed - lingerer» in Women's Health.

I must confess, when reading this book I identified elements of both traits in my own leadership style and quickly set about changing for the better.

Milyutin — who confesses that he struggled with math in primary school — cited a 1984 review by the late Benjamin Bloom, which reports that students who received one - on - one tutoring performed better than 98 % of students taught in a conventional classroom.

They were dissatisfied, they confessed, with their «haphazard» approach to saving and investing, as well as with their inability to find high - quality investment advice.

He confessed that «I need to figure out how to be better» so Tesla could get better at building cars.

I get what the Mayor is trying to do... I confess, though, I'm conflicted about whether the kind of ban the Mayor proposed is the best way to promote better eating and drinking choices.

Well noted for his logical reasoning, canny ability to get people to confess, and use forensic science to solve the most heinous crimes.

Confessing feels great... but what are you doing to make it better?

I have posted the following response: It is good Drummond confesses that his free - market policy prescriptions failed to improve productivity, but old habits apparently die hard: â $ œWe have an Employment Insurance scheme that basically dissuades people from going where the jobs are.

As far as religion is concerned we may as well start burning folks at the stake, just as the Puritans did or better yet dunk people in water until they confess their love of a so - called god..

There are commands to be baptized as well as commands to believe, repent and confess; how can you say you believe i Jesus and then ignore His commands to be baptized?

How does he feel entitled to make any claim to be a better Catholic than Santorum (for that is what he's implicitly claiming) on questions that the church rightly leaves to the prudential judgment of voters and public officials, within broad boundaries, when in the next breath he confesses his complete failure to be any kind of Catholic at all on a question on which the church speaks with categorical moral authority?

Marion expresses the theocentric understanding of man that he finds in St. Augustine: «Speaking to God, as the confessing praise does, implies first of all turning one's face to God so that he can come over me, claim me, and call me starting from himself, well beyond what I could say, predict, or predicate of him starting from myself alone.»

Yes, we «believe and confess» certain things, and that is a very good thing.

Then, in spite of our best efforts, we have to acknowledge and confess our sins, knowing that our best efforts will not be good enough.»

@ jonathan, You confessed: «I believe that I understand reality better than others:» That is never a sentence I would utter — it is so full of misunderstandings.

In his Yuletide message to his disappearing flock, Dr. Browning confessed that in his «darker moments,» he sometimes wondered whether «the world [would] have been a better place without [Jesus].

I confess to being not well - versed in Chesterton.

God may give us a Church, which is lively and where God is present by His Holy Spirit (a good example was the Confessing Church, which fighted against Nazi rule in Germany during the Third Reich.)

The main reason I confess my sins is that I am better able to love my neighbor and the evidence in my life when I compare it to when I was not confessing regularly tells me that it has helped me better love my neighbor.

Bonhoeffer's early and consistent resistance to the intrusion of Nazi ecclesial, political and military machinations is well known: his bold involvement in the Confessing Church, his directorship of the underground seminary community at Finkenwalde (from which time we have his book Life Together), his summons to costly discipleship, the increasing repression of the mid-1930s and his decision to return to Germany in 1939 (although he had the opportunity to become an exile in the United States).

But I confess to thinking that Jesus could have done better.

When I confessed my belief in God to my best friend, she would have been about as shocked to learn that Richard Dawkins had become a Baptist minister.

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.

I confess that I want pagan night — una nox dormienda — not solely, however, because nothingness is better than the prospect of pain, even terminable pain.

Perhaps Christians would be stronger, better, people if they would confess to those that they wronged directly, instead of sweeping it under the rug they call confession.

Because of a «universal feeling, whether well - or ill - founded» (a feeling that Lincoln confessed he shared), the option of making freed slaves «politically and socially our equals» was also excluded.

That is why the Christian, even when he permits himself to use violence in what he considers the best of causes, can not either feel or say that he is justified: he can only confess that he is a sinner, submit to God's judgment, and hope for God's grace and forgiveness.

His controversial utterance, «Whoever knowingly separates himself from the Confessing Church in Germany separates himself from salvation,» stressed both the importance of doctrine as well as the idea that separation from the church is equal to cutting oneself off from Christ who exists in the church.

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.»

(It was good and all, but I confess I did not have the religious experience for which so many In - And - Out fans had prepared me.)

Read Phil.2: 5 - 11 in its entirety; the message is clear we're all to live a humble life, confessing the Lord Jesus Christ, to the glory of God the Father.Ofcourse, Jesus is God who took on the form of man, good news but what does that have to do with us being gods?

Rom 7:16 But if I do the very thing I do not want to do, I agree with the Law, confessing that the Law is good.

It is better for you to enter the kingdom of God with one eye than with two eyes to be thrown into hell,» Romans 10:9 - 10 «because, if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.

I must confess that I was a little perplexed, as well, though perhaps for different reasons.

Among believers, confess your origins as well as the ways you're still broken.

The world would take note of what the gospel makes possible for those who confess their dis - ease with each other but still keep going, strangers locked in covenant, toward the better country of diversity and harmony, liberty and love.

As far as German scholars of that era go, though, he was one of the good guys, a member of the Confessing Church who spoke out against the mistreatment of Jews, whatever negative Marcionite opinions he had regarding the relevance of the Old Testament.

In fact there seems to be a few things that the bible says we have been saved by... Jesus (Romans 5:9), grace and faith, (Ephesians 2:8) believing (mark 16:16), confessing that Jesus is Lord and believing Jesus was raised from the dead by God (Romans 10:9), Love God and your Neighbor (Luke 10:25 - 28), repentance (2 Corinthians 7:10), baptism (1 Peter 3:21), Endurance (Matthew 24:13), works (which is best described as actions and not good deeds)(James 2:24) and obeying (Matthew 7:21).

Odd again, because, despite my best efforts to see something heroic in this man's biography, which might explain what his prose does not, I confess to see at best what Stephen Spender referred to, in a 1979 New York Review of Books piece (March 25, p. 13) on modern German self - analysis, as «der Nebel,» the fog that «allows people to live with unbearable experiences»; the fog that made it possible to «go along» or «not know.»

The clockmaker then confessed his clocks weren't keeping time too well either, and he set them each afternoon by the factory's closing time whistle!

Only then will one realize they are lost and need a Saviour at which point that person will do well to confess they are a sinner and ask Jesus to come in.

JOE: Well, I confess that when Carol started changing, and wanted an equal say in our decisions, and wanted to have her life considered as important as mine, I did think maybe she wanted to be the boss.

Mike signs himself and confesses his sins: «Well, I drink a bit more than I should?

Because Jesus did not fight Rome, for example, should the confessing Christians in Germany in World War II have remained nonpolitical as well?

We believe he is acting for the good of those who love him, but we confess that we often have no idea of how this act or that act can ever work for good.