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O most gracious and loving Jesus,
my Lord and my God,
fountain of all grace.
come into my soul with the fullness of your grace.
Jesus most patient, too long have I made you wait for me,
yet come to me:
endure me a sinner, and make me, through your patience,
to endure all things, and to be patient with all.
Jesus most humble, make me through your humility so humble,
that I may never lift up myself,
for anything against anyone, as to any one.
Jesus most loving, come with all your love into my soul,
that I may love you with a burning love,
and love each and everyone with your own love.
E.B. Pusey, 1800-1882, English churchman and leader of the Oxford Movement
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This is how God showed his love among us:
He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him.
This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us
and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins.
Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.
No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another,
God lives in us and his love is made complete in us.
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