I will give thanks to you, O LORD, among the peoples, and I will sing praises to you among the nations. For your steadfast love is higher than the heavens, and your faithfulness reaches to the clouds. Psalm 108:3-4
O give thanks to the LORD, for he is good; for his steadfast love endures forever. For he satisfies the thirsty, and the hungry he fills with good things. Psalm 107:1, 9
Do not press me to leave you or to turn back from following you! Where you go, I will go; where you lodge, I will lodge, your people shall be my people, and your God my God. Ruth 1:16
Where can I go from your spirit? Or where can I flee from your presence? If I ascend to heaven, you are there; if I make my bed in Sheol, you are there. If I take the wings of the morning and settle at the farthest limits of the sea, even there your hand shall lead me Psalm 139:7-10a
Ever since the creation of the world his eternal power and divine nature, invisible though they are, have been understood and seen through the things he has made. Romans 1:20a
As many of you as were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ. There is no longer Jew or Greek, there is no longer slave or free, there is no longer male and female; for all of you are one in Christ Jesus. Galatians 3:27-28
And now I am no longer in the world, but they are in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, protect them in your name that you have given me, so that they may be one, as we are one. John 17:11
God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble. Therefore we will not fear, though the earth should change, though the mountains shake in the heart of the sea; though its waters roar and foam, though the mountains tremble with its tumult. There is a river whose streams make glad the city of God, the holy habitation of the Most High. God is in the midst of the city; it shall not be moved; God will help it when the morning dawns. Psalm 46:1-5
My eye grows dim through sorrow. Every day I call on you, O LORD; I spread out my hands to you. Is your steadfast love declared in the grave, Are your wonders known in the darkness? But I, O LORD, cry out to you; in the morning my prayer comes before you. - Excerpts from Psalm 88, a Psalm of Lament.
A voice is heard in Ramah, lamentation and bitter weeping. Rachel is weeping for her children; she refuses to be comforted for her children, because they are no more. Jeremiah 31:15b
The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to bring good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim release to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to let the oppressed go free Luke 4:18
You shall put these words of mine in your heart and soul....Teach them to your children, talking about them when you are at home and when you are away, when you lie down and when you rise. Deuteronomy 11:18a, 19