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. ...

I, even I, am he who blots out your transgressions, for my own sake, and remembers your sins no more. ...

And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to be with me that you also may be where I am. ...

Then He touched their eyes [of the blind men] and said, "According to your faith let it be done to you." And their eyes were opened. ...