‘In every thing give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you.’

‘Pray without ceasing.’

‘Rejoice evermore.’

‘And ye shall seek me, and find me, when ye shall search for me with all your heart.’

‘All that the Father giveth me shall come to me; and him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out.’

‘This love of which I speak is slow to lose patience—it looks for a way of being constructive.  It is not possessive:  it is neither anxious to impress nor does it cherish inflated ideas of its own importance.

‘Then Jesus beholding him loved him, and said unto him, One thing thou lackest:  go thy way, sell whatsoever thou hast, and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven:  and come, take up the cross, and follow me.’

‘Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before’

‘Wherefore we labour, that, whether present or absent, we may be accepted of him.’

‘But one thing is needful:  and Mary hath chosen that good part, which shall not be taken away from her.’

‘One thing have I desired of the Lᴏʀᴅ, that will I seek after; that I may dwell in the house of the Lᴏʀᴅ all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the Lᴏʀᴅ, and to enquire in his temple.’

‘He answered and said, Whether he be a sinner or no, I know not: one thing I know, that, whereas I was blind, now I see.’

‘For the which cause I also suffer these things: nevertheless I am not ashamed: for I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I have committed unto him against that day.’