r embittered, indolent, envious, I know that I can find
strength through the performance of some loving act, however small. I
can brighten the dullest sky with the sunshine of a little love. I know
that sin and evil come chiefly from selfishness and sensuality. I can
conquer selfishness by love. I can conquer sensuality by love. I can
overcome all evil, all fear, all vanity, by love. There is no death,
but the death of love. From which,

_Dear Lord, deliver me._

II

I know that pride is the worship of self: but humility is the worship of
God. Pride leads to discontent, but humility in loving service (no
matter how obscure) gives peace of mind. From all forms of pride,

_Dear Lord, deliver me._

III

I know that only harm can come to me from dwelling upon past mistakes,
follies, sins. I cannot change these so I put them out of my thoughts
and concentrate on the present, which is mine to do with as I please.
From all vain regrets,

_Dear Lord, deliver me._

IV

I know that right living comes only from right thinking. To do right
under stress of law or custom while desiring to do wrong is to make a
mockery of virtue. I must sincerely desire to do right. The forces of
life-control must act from within me, not from without. From all
hypocrisy and false pretense,

_Dear Lord, deliver me._

V

I know that a woman cannot be virtuous if she longs for sensuality, or
dallies with it, or dwells upon it in her thoughts, even though she
refrain from any sinful act. Nor can a married woman be a truly virtuous
wife if she yields to perverse revellings of the imagination which
defile body and soul--_even with her husband_! From all defilements of
love,

_Dear Lord, deliver me._

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