Poets & Saints

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Psalm 42:1–3 (NRSV)  

As a deer longs for flowing streams,  

so my soul longs for You, O God.  

My soul thirsts for God,  

for the living God.  

When shall I come and behold the face of God?  

M…

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John 20:24–29 (NRSV)  

But Thomas, who was called the Twin, one of the twelve,  

was not with them when Jesus came.  

So the other disciples told him, “We have seen the Lord.”  

But he said to…

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John 20:19–22 (NRSV)  

When it was evening on that day, the first day of the week,  

and the doors of the house where the disciples had met were locked for fear,  

Jesus came and stood among …

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Psalm 23 (NRSV)  

The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want.  

He makes me lie down in green pastures;  

He leads me beside still waters;  

He restores my soul.  

He leads me in right paths  

fo…

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Genesis 16:7–13 (NRSV)  

The angel of the Lord found Hagar by a spring of water in the wilderness,  

the spring on the way to Shur. And he said,  

“Hagar, servant of Sarai, where have you com…

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Matthew 5:14–16 (NRSV)  

“You are the light of the world.  

A city built on a hill cannot be hidden.  

No one after lighting a lamp puts it under the bushel basket,  

but on the lampstand, and…

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Isaiah 40:28–31 (NRSV)  

Have you not known? Have you not heard?  

The Lord is the everlasting God,  

the Creator of the ends of the earth.  

He does not faint or grow weary;  

His understandin…

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Philippians 3:7–14 (NRSV)  

Yet whatever gains I had, these I have come to regard as loss because of Christ.  

More than that, I regard everything as loss  

because of the surpassing value of…

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Genesis 28:10–16 (NRSV)  

Jacob left Beer-sheba and went toward Haran.  

He came to a certain place and stayed there for the night, because the sun had set.  

Taking one of the stones of the …

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Psalm 131 (NRSV)  

O Lord, my heart is not lifted up,  

my eyes are not raised too high;  

I do not occupy myself with things  

too great and too marvelous for me.  

But I have calmed and quiet…

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Proverbs 3:5–8 (NRSV)  

Trust in the Lord with all your heart,  

and do not rely on your own insight.  

In all your ways acknowledge Him,  

and He will make straight your paths.  

Do not be wis…

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John 14:16–20, 26–27 (NRSV)  

And I will ask the Father,  

and He will give you another Advocate, to be with you forever.  

This is the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive,  

becaus…

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Ecclesiastes 3:1–8, 11 (NRSV)  

For everything there is a season,  

and a time for every matter under heaven:  

a time to be born, and a time to die;  

a time to plant, and a time to pluck up …

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Lamentations 3:21–26 (NRSV)  

But this I call to mind,  

and therefore I have hope:  

The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases,  

His mercies never come to an end;  

they are new every morni…

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Acts 17:24–28 (NRSV)  

The God who made the world and everything in it,  

He who is Lord of heaven and earth,  

does not live in shrines made by human hands,  

nor is He served by human hands,…

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1 Kings 19:11–13 (NRSV)

The Lord said, “Go out and stand on the mountain before the Lord, for the Lord is about to pass by.”  

Now there was a great wind, so strong that it was splitting mou…

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Romans 8:22–27 (NRSV)  

We know that the whole creation has been groaning in labor pains until now;  

and not only the creation, but we ourselves,  

who have the first fruits of the Spirit,  

…

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Luke 12:22–32 (NRSV, abridged)  

Jesus said, “Do not worry about your life, what you will eat,  

or about your body, what you will wear.  

For life is more than food, and the body more than c…

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Psalm 139:1–12 (NRSV)  

O Lord, you have searched me and known me.  

You know when I sit down and when I rise up;  

you discern my thoughts from far away.  

You search out my path and my lying…

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