"Behold, O Lord, that I am indignant with myself, for my senseless, profitless, hurtful, perilous passions; that I loathe myself, for these inordinate, unseemly, deformed, false, shameful, disgraceful passions; that my confusion is daily before me, and the shame of my face hath covered me. Alas! woe, woe! O me, how long?"

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Source : Lancelot Andrewes (bp. of Winchester.) (1883). “The private devotions of Lancelot Andrewes”

Lancelot Andrewes

#Passion Quotes #Long Quotes #Confusion Quotes

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Source : Gloria Gaither (1997). “Because He Lives: The Stories and Inspiration Behind the Songs of Bill and Gloria Gaither”, Zondervan Publishing Company

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