I, even I, am he who comforts you. ...

It is a sin to despise one’s neighbor, but blessed is the one who is kind to the needy. ...

My lips will shout for joy when I sing praise to You—because You have redeemed me. ...

It does not, therefore, depend on human desire or effort, but on God's mercy. ...

And even the very hairs of your head are all numbered. ...

A time is coming and has now come when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God and those who hear will live. ...

I have swept away your offenses like a cloud, your sins like the morning mist. Return to me, for I have redeemed you. ...

But many who are first will be last, and the last first. ...

But you, Lord, are a shield around me, my glory, the One who lifts my head high. ...

Hope does not put us to shame, because God's love has been poured out into our hearts through the Holy Spirit, who has been given to us. ...