Batter my heart, three-person'd God

Prayers like these give me comfort that I’m not alone in my struggle with human nature and in my desire to walk closely with Christ and to live a life pleasing to Him.

John Donne’s Holy Sonnet 14

Batter my heart, three-person'd God ; for you

As yet but knock ; breathe, shine, and seek to mend ;

That I may rise, and stand, o'erthrow me, and bend

Your force, to break, blow, burn, and make me new.

I, like an usurp'd town, to another due,

Labour to admit you, but O, to no end.

Reason, your viceroy in me, me should defend,

But is captived, and proves weak or untrue.

Yet dearly I love you, and would be loved fain,

But am betroth'd unto your enemy ;

Divorce me, untie, or break that knot again,

Take me to you, imprison me, for I,

Except you enthrall me, never shall be free,

Nor ever chaste, except you ravish me.

God and Myself (Puritan Prayer)

“Lead me to repentance, and save me from despair; Let me come to thee renouncing, condemning, loathing myself, but hoping in the grace that flows even to the chief of sinners.”

And...wise advice from Thumper: 

 

That goes for thoughts too ;)