"O Father in heaven, who fashioned my limbs to serve you and my soul to follow hard after you, with sorrow and contrition of heart I acknowledge before you the faults and failures of the day that is now past...
My failure to be true even to my own accepted standardsMy self-deception in the face of temptationMy choosing of the worse when I know the betterO Lord, forgiveMy failure to apply to myself the standards of conduct I demand of othersMy blindness to the suffering of others and my slowness to be taught by my ownMy complacence towards wrongs that do not touch my own case and my over-sensitiveness to those that doMy slowness to see the good in my fellows and to see the evil in myselfMy hardness of heart toward my neighbours' faults and my readiness to make allowance of my ownMy unwillingness to believe that You have called me to a small work and my brother to a great oneO Lord, forgive."
John Baillie, quoted in Questioning Evangelism by Randy Newman