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O Jesus Christ, grow thou in me, And all things else recede! My heart be daily nearer thee, From sin be daily freed… Fill me with gladness from above, Hold me by strength divine; Lord, make the glow of thy great love Through my whole being shine. Make this poor self grow less and less, Be thou my life and aim; O make me daily through thy grace, More meet to bear thy Name! - Johann C. Lavater (1741-1841)

“The house of my soul is, I confess, too narrow for thee; do thou enlarge it, that thou mayest enter in; it is ruinous, but do thou repair it. It has that within which must offend thine eyes; I confess and know it; but whose help shall I implore in cleansing it, but thine alone?” - Augustine
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Really loving the prayers at the end of each day’s reading!

“Let your love so warm our souls, O Lord, that we may gladly surrender ourselves with all that we are and have to you. Let your love fall as fire from heaven upon the altar of our hearts; teach us to guard it carefully by continual devotion and quietness of mind, and to cherish with anxious care every spark of its holy flame, with which your good Spirit would quicken us…”
- Gerhard Tersteegen