Sentence examples for our transgressions from inspiring English sources

"We acknowledge our transgressions, our shortcomings, our smugness, our selfishness and our pride.

Christ comes to us, and he's wounded for our transgressions, even though mankind has turned its back on him.

And in subsequent episodes, sin by sin, they turn our transgressions into intelligent comic drama, laced with character-building revelations.

THE NEW YORKER: Assuming — for the sake of argument — that there's no higher power keeping track of our transgressions, who worries about lying today?

"We acknowledge our transgressions, our shortcomings, our smugness, our selfishness and our pride," he went on, his baritone voice filling the room.

And perhaps most stunningly, given all of our transgressions against them, they may even, in certain circumstances, have learned to trust us again.

If our moral failing is exposed, we feel shame, not because we have transgressed, but because we have been observed in our transgression.

We looked around nervously and hoped that no loitering regime informant had heard our transgression.

But just because the Bild journalists see our "vodka cough" and "balcony legs" (the injury someone sustains when jumping from the hotel balcony into the pool – yes, really) as cause for fremdschämen, is it necessary to react as though we've been hit where it hurts and hang our heads at our lewd transgressions?

By bearing witness ot our own transgressions, we can reverse our course and ensure that the rights of God's creation prevail over the transient interests of corporations.

Charles Siebert's speculation that the whales are approaching humans to show renewed trust in us and forgiveness of our many transgressions against their kind is one explanation for the whales' apparent interest in humans.