A prayer of confession - by Stanley Hauerwas
Gracious God, humble us through the violence of
Your love so we are able to know and confess
our sins. We want our sins to be interesting, but,
God forgive us, they are so ordinary: envy,
hatred, meanness, pride, self-centeredness, laziness,
boredom, lying, lust, stinginess, and so on.
You have saved us from "and so on" to be a royal
people able to witness to the world that
the powers that make us such ordinary sinners
have been defeated. So capture our attention
with the beauty of your life that
the ugliness of sin may be seen as just that -
ugly.
God, how wonderful
it is to be captivated by you.
Amen.
Taken from the end of this article, which would appear to be the full text of the second lecture he gave at New College on How to Write a Theological Sentence.