If thou art a servant of God, raise thy hands in prayer; and if thou be ashamed, weep in sorrow.
No one has stood upon His threshold whose sins the tears of repentance have not washed away.
CHAPTER X
CONCERNING PRAYER
Come, let us raise our hands in prayer, for to-morrow they will be powerless in the dust.
Think not that he who supplicates before the Door of Mercy, which is never shut, will turn away in hopelessness.
O Lord, regard us with compassion, for sin has entered among thy servants.
O gracious God! by Thy bounty have we been sustained; to Thy gifts and lovingkindness have we become habituated.
Since in this life Thou hast ennobled us above all things created, hope of similar glory have we in the world to come.