The way to cover our sin is to uncover it by confession.
Interpretation
Confession of one's sins is the path to true healing and forgiveness.
This quote emphasizes the importance of being honest about our wrongdoings. By confessing our sins, we not only seek forgiveness but also allow ourselves to be free from the burden of guilt and shame, leading to a more authentic life.
In practice
During a sermon, the pastor used this quote to encourage congregants to seek forgiveness.
When a man is to travel into a far country...one staff in his hand may comfortably support him, but a bundle of staves would be troublesome. Thus a competency of these outward things may happily help us in the way to heaven, whereas abundance may be hurtful.
It would be a good contest amongst Christians, one to labour to give no offence, and the other to labour to take none. The best men are severe to themselves, tender over others.
Those that look to be happy must first look to be holy.
There is more mercy in Christ than sin in us.
In all their jollity in this world, the wicked are but as a book fairly bound, which when it is opened is full of nothing but tragedies. So when the book of their consciences shall be once opened, there is nothing to be read but lamentations and woes.
Faith, whereby especially Christ rules, sets the soul so high that it looks down on all other things as far below, as having represented to it, by the Spirit of Christ, riches, honor, beauty and pleasures of a higher nature.
It is the greatest manifestation of power to be calm.
It's a funny thing, the less people have to live for, the less nerve they have to risk losing nothing.
Who then is free? The wise man who can govern himself.
A good debater is not necessarily an effective vote-getter: you can find a hole in your opponent's argument through which you could drive a coach and four ringing jingle bells all the way, and thrill at the crystallization of a truth wrung out from a bloody dialogue - which, however, may warm only you and your muse, while the smiling paralogist has in the meantime made votes by the tens of thousands.
It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.
Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
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