Lord, I confess I am not what I ought to be, but I thank you, Lord, that I'm not what I used to be.

Guard us, guide us, keep us, feed us, For we have no help but Thee.

God, give me hills to climb, And strength for climbing!

Night is drawing nigh-For all that has been-Thanks! To all that shall be-Yes!

(On the night he was robbed:) I thank Thee first because I was never robbed before; second, because although they took my purse they did not take my life; third, although they took my all, it was not much; and fourth, because it was I who was robbed and not I who robbed.

Here stand I. I can do no other. God help me. Amen.

Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.

What in me is dark, Illumine; what is low, raise and support; That to the height of this great argument I may assert Eternal Providence, And justify the ways of God to men.

I am only a spark: Make me a fire.

in Richard Wightman Fox, Reinhold Niebuhr, Ch. 12. Prayer said to have been first published in 1951., make me a vessel for you from which others might drink.