"Thou art the King of glory, O Christ,

Thou art the everlasting Son of the Father;

When Thou tookest upon Thee to deliver man

Thou didst not abhor the virgin's womb;

When Thou hadst overcome the sharpness of death

Thou didst open the kingdom of heaven to all believers.

Thou sittest at the right hand of God in the glory of the Father;

We believe that Thou shalt come, to be our judge." 

- TeDeum Laudamus

"Faith will outlast the bitter hour,

Hope will outshine the darkest fear,

Love will outmatch the strongest power

That threatens all the soul holds dear:

For faith will conquer, hope abide,

And love will reign the Throne beside,

When sin, and fear, and death, have died." - Anonymous

"All praise to thee, my God, this night

For all the blessings of the light,

Keep me, oh, keep me, King of kings,

Beneath thine own almighty wings.

 

Forgive me, Lord for thy dear Son,

The ill that I this day have done

That with the world, myself and thee

I, ere I sleep, at peace may be.

 

Teach me to live that I may dread

The grave as little as my bed.

Teach me to die that so I may

Rise glorious at the awe-full day.

 

Praise  God, from whom all blessings flow;

Praise Him, all creatures here below;

Praise Him, above, yet heavenly host;

Praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost.

 

- Thomas Ken (1637-1711)

"I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go." - Abraham Lincoln

"Revive Thy work, O Lord,

  Disturb this sleep of death;

Quicken the smoldering embers now

  By Thine almighty breath.

 

Revive Thy work, O Lord,

  Create soul-thirst for Thee;

And hungry for the bread of life

  O may our spirits be." - Albert Midlane

"I walked a mile with Pleasure,

And ne'er a word said she;

But oh, the things I learned from her

When Sorrow walked with me."

-Robert Browning Hamilton

"He gives power to the faint,

and to him who has no might he increases strength. 

  Even youths shall faint and be weary,

and young men shall fall exhausted;

  but they who wait for the Lord shall renew their strength, 

  they shall mount up with wings like eagles,

they shall run and not be weary,

  they shall walk and not faint."

-Isaiah 40:29-31

"The world confess its sin.

  Yet in the maddening maze of things,

and tossed by storm and flood,

  to one fixed trust my spirit clings:

I know that God is good."

- John Greenleaf Whittier