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| “Have mercy on me, O God, in your goodness, in your great tenderness wipe away all my faults, wash me clean of my guilt, and purify me from all my sin.” |
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| “If there is anything you need, pray for it, asking God for it with thanksgiving; and the peace of God, which is much greater than understanding, will guard both your thoughts and your heart.” |
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| “In your prayers do not babble on as the pagans do, for they think that by using many words they will make themselves heard. Do not be like them; your Father knows what you need even before you ask him.” |
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| “This is what I shall tell my heart, and so recover hope: the favors of Yahweh are not all passed, his kindnesses are not exhausted. They are renewed every morning.” |
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| “Not that I have become perfect yet: I have not yet won, but I am still running to capture the prize for which Christ Jesus captured me.” |
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| “The only thing that counts is not what humans want or try to do, but the mercy of God.” |
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| “If I will it? Of course I will it! Be healed.” |
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| “All the time I kept silent and my bones wasted away. I groaned day in and day out, my heart grew parched as stubble in summer drought, and at last I admitted to you that I had sinned and no longer concealed my guilt.” |
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| “So confess your sins to one another, and pray for one another, and this will cure you.” |
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| “If you forgive others their sins, they are indeed forgiven. If you withhold forgiveness from one another, they are held bound.” |
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| “Sacrifice gives you no pleasure, were I to offer a holocaust, you would not have it. My sacrifice is this broken spirit. You will never scorn a crushed and broken heart.” |
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| “If inside you have the bitterness of jealousy, or a selfish ambition, never make any false claims for yourself or cover up the truth with lies.” |
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| “Be awake and pray that you pass the test. The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak.” |
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| “O, come to the water all you who are thirsty. Though you have no money, come! Buy corn without money, and eat; and, at no cost, wine and milk. Why spend money on what is not bread, your wages on what fails to satisfy?” |
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| “Work for your salvation in fear and trembling. It is God, for his own loving purposes, who puts both the will and the action into you.” |
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| “Ask, and it will be given to you; search and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened to you. For the one who asks always receives; the one who searches always finds; the one who knocks will always have the door opened.” |
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| “The God of old is still your refuge. This God has everlasting arms that can drive out the enemy before you.” |
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| “Yes, we are carrying our own death warrant with us, but it is teaching us not to rely on ourselves, but on a God whose task is to raise the dead to life.” |
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| “While he was still a long way off, the father saw him and was moved with pity. He ran to the boy, clasped him in his arms and kissed him tenderly.” |
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| “Like a weaver, you roll up my life, and cut it from the loom. From dawn to night you are watching my failure. I cry aloud until the morning, but like a lion you crush all my bones. I twitter like a swallow, I moan like a dove.” |
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| “I cannot understand my own behavior. I fail to carry out the very things I want to do, and find myself doing the very things I hate...for although the will to do what is good is in me, the performance is not.” |
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| “And when Jesus looked at the crowds, he felt sorry for them, because they were harassed and dejected, like sheep without a shepherd.” |
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