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A bruised reed shall he not break,
and the smoking flax shall he not quench.
–Isaiah 42:3 (KJV)–

Lest I should be exalted above measure through the abundance of the revelations, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan to buffet me, lest I should be exalted above measure.
–2 Corinthians 12:7 (KJV)–

Judas threw the money into the temple and left.
Then he went away and hanged himself.
–Matthew 27:5 (NIV)–

None has been lost except
the one doomed to destruction.
–John 17:12 (NIV)–

To be, or not to be, that is the question:
Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles
And by opposing end them. To die—to sleep,
No more; and by a sleep to say we end
The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks
That flesh is heir to: ’tis a consummation
Devoutly to be wish’d. To die, to sleep;
To sleep, perchance to dream—ay, there’s the rub:
For in that sleep of death what dreams may come,
When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,
Must give us pause—there’s the respect
That makes calamity of so long life.
–Hamlet–

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William Bridge, A Lifting Up for the Downcast (Banner of Truth, 1961).

Richard Sibbes, The Bruised Reed (Banner of Truth, 1998).

David Wilkerson, Suicide (Spire Books, 1978).

Unless your righteousness surpasses that
of the Pharisees and the teachers of the law,
you will certainly not enter the kingdom of heaven.
–Jesus Christ in Matthew 5:20 (NIV)–

Oh, how I love your law!
    I meditate on it all day long.
–Psalm 119:97 (NIV)–

In my inner being I delight in God’s law.
–Romans 7:22 (NIV)–

With the temptation also make a way to escape.
–1 Corinthians 10:13 (KJV)–

She caught him by his cloak and said, “Come to bed with me!” 
But he left his cloak in her hand and ran out of the house.
–Genesis 39:12 (NIV)–

Lead us not into temptation,
but deliver us from evil.
–Jesus Christ in Matthew 6:13 (KJV)–

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¹³ Now the Passover of the Jews was at hand, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. ¹⁴ And He found in the temple those who sold oxen and sheep and doves, and the money changers doing business. ¹⁵ When He had made a whip of cords, He drove them all out of the temple, with the sheep and the oxen, and poured out the changers’ money and overturned the tables. ¹⁶ And He said to those who sold doves, “Take these things away! Do not make My Father’s house a house of merchandise!” ¹⁷ Then His disciples remembered that it was written, “Zeal for Your house has eaten Me up.”
–John 2:13-17 (NKJV)–

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You have made us and drawn us to Yourself,
and our heart is restless until it rests in You.
–Augustine–