There's a Wideness in God's Mercy

Verse 1

There’s a wideness in God’s mercy, like the wideness of the sea. There’s a kindness in God’s justice, which is more than liberty.

Verse 2

There is welcome for the sinner, and more graces for the good. There is mercy with the Savior, there is healing in his blood.

Verse 3

But we make God’s love too narrow by false limits of our own, and we magnify its strictness with a zeal God will not own.

Verse 4

For the love of God is broader than the measures of the mind, and the heart of the Eternal is most wonderfully kind.

Verse 5

If our love were but more simple, we should rest upon God’s word, and our lives would be illumined by the presence of our Lord.