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My self-deception in face of temptation:

My choosing of the worse when I know the better:

O Lord, forgive.

My failure to apply to myself the standards of conduct I demand

of others:

My blindness to the suffering of others and my slowness to be

taught by my own:

My complacence towards wrongs that do not touch my own

case and my over-sensitiveness to those that do:

My slowness to see the good in my fellows and to see the evil in

myself:

My hardness of heart towards my neighbours’ faults and my

readiness to make allowance for my own:

O Lord, forgive.”

(John Baillie)