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Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he will exalt you.

Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners. Purify your hearts, you double-minded.

He who conceals his sins doesn’t prosper, but whoever confesses and renounces them finds mercy.

Blessed is he whose disobedience is forgiven, whose sin is covered.

I acknowledged my sin to you. I didn’t hide my iniquity. I said, I will confess my transgressions to Yahweh, and you forgave the iniquity of my sin. Selah.

I will instruct you and teach you in the way which you shall go. I will counsel you with my eye on you.

Create in me a clean heart, O God. Renew a right spirit within me.

Restore to me the joy of your salvation. Uphold me with a willing spirit.

The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit. O God, you will not despise a broken and contrite heart.

Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, then I will come in to him and will dine with him, and he with me.

Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be

A phase of my life was closing to-night, a new one opening to-morrow: impossible to slumber in the interval; I must watch feverishly while the change was being accomplished.

My world had for some years been in Lowood: my experience had been of its rules and systems; now I remembered that the real world was wide, and that a varied field of hopes and fears, of sensations and excitements, awaited those who had courage to go forth into its expanse, to seek real knowledge of life amidst its perils.

It is in vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

But let me not hate and despise myself too much for these feelings; I know them to be wrong—that is a great step gained; I shall strive to overcome them.

To forget the mistakes of the past and press on to the greater achievements of the future.

One should always follow a denial with an affirmation.

My fellow Americans, our long national nightmare is over.

One of the chief virtues of a democracy, however, is that its defects are always visible and under democratic processes can be pointed out and corrected.

Once I knew the depth where no hope was, and darkness lay on the face of all things.

But I did not dream that that interview would be the door through which I should pass from darkness into light, from isolation to friendship, companionship, knowledge, love.

I slip back many times, I fall, I stand still, I run against the edge of hidden obstacles, I lose my temper and find it again and keep it better, I trudge on, I gain a little, I feel encouraged, I get more eager and climb higher and begin to see the widening horizon.

depend upon it, you will love your native hills the better for being separated from them

As age comes on, one source of enjoyment after another is closed, but Nature's sources never fail.

The collisions of party spirit which originate in speculative opinions or in different views of administrative policy are in their nature transitory.