The Ballad of Reading Gaol
...And thus we rust Life's iron chain
                Degraded and alone:
And some men curse, and some men weep,
                And some men make no moan:
But God's eternal Laws are kind
                And break the heart of stone.

And every human heart that breaks,
                In prison-cell or yard,
Is as that broken box that gave
                Its treasure to the Lord,
And filled the unclean leper's house
                With the scent of costliest nard.

Ah! happy those whose hearts can break
                And peace of pardon win!
How else may man make straight his plan
                And cleanse his soul from Sin?
How else but through a broken heart
                May Lord Christ enter in? [Oscar Wilde]
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Hebrews 4-6
Psalm 25

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Peter De Vries. "Nostalgia isn't what it used to be." [Quotes of the Day]
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