“Hope does not shame. She is the daughter of uprightness, and uprightness is the offspring of patience, and patience is birthed really in trials that the virtues receive from the enemy and by which the understanding of God is cut off.”
Evagrius Ponticus, 4th c. — NOTES ON THE PSALMS 24[25].20
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20O keep my soul, and deliver me: let me not be ashamed; for I put my trust in thee.
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18Look upon mine affliction and my pain; and forgive all my sins.
19Consider mine enemies; for they are many; and they hate me with cruel hatred.
— Psalms 25:20 —
21Let integrity and uprightness preserve me; for I wait on thee.