...today still use Thomas Cranmer's great General Confession. I hope some of you, at least, remember it: "We have followed too much the devices and desires of our own hearts. . . . We have left undone those things which we ought to have done, and we have done those things which we ought...

...the flesh. The Book of Common Prayer uses the more elegant, or at least more comfortable, wording, "We have followed too much the devices and desires of our own hearts." It is just not in us. It is not in most of us to achieve complete harmony among our beliefs, our values,...

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...we had memorized from the Book of Common Prayer, reciting by heart the required General Confession: Almighty and most Merciful Father, We have erred and...too much the devices and desires of our own hearts. As she spoke the words softly, Armistead's head bent so low to her desk that her mouth met the wood....

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...as well as deeds, and in motives as well as actions. The Anglican Prayer Book rightly teaches that "We have followed too much the devices and desires of our own hearts. . . . We have left undone those things which we ought to have done, and we have done those things which we ought...