For my deceitful heart and crooked thoughts:If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves.
For barbed words spoken deliberately:
For thoughtless words spoken hastily:
For envious and prying eyes:
For ears that rejoice in vice and rejoice not in the truth:
For greedy hands:
For wandering and loitering feet:
For haughty looks:
Have mercy upon me, O God.
Almighty God, Spirit of purity and grace, in asking your forgiveness I cannot claim a right to be forgiven but only cast myself upon your unbounded love.
I can plead no merit or just reward:Paraphrase of A Diary of Private Prayer by John Baillie ©1949 Charles Scribner's Sons
I can plead no extenuating circumstance:
I cannot plead the frailty of my nature:
I cannot plead the force of the temptations I encoun¬ter:
I cannot plead the persuasions of others who led me astray:
I can only say, For the sake of Jesus Christ Thy Son my Lord. Amen.