O Lord, Forgive

My failure to be true even to my own accepted standards:
O Lord, forgive!

My self-deception in the face of temptation:
O Lord, forgive!

My choosing of the worse when I knew the better:
O Lord, forgive!

My failure to apply to myself
the standards of conduct that I demand of others:
O Lord, forgive!

My blindness to the suffering of others
and my slowness to be taught by my own:
O Lord, forgive!

My complacence toward wrongs that do not touch my own case
and my over sensitiveness to those that do:
O Lord, forgive!

My slowness to see the good in my fellows and to see the evil in myself:
O Lord forgive!

My hardness of heart toward my neighbor's faults
and my readiness to make allowance for my own:
O Lord forgive!

My unwillingness to believe that You have called me
to a small work and my brother to a great one:
O Lord, forgive!