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Richard Chenevix Trench • English
Daniel 6:10
Lord, what a change within us one short hour Spent in Thy presence will prevail to make; What heavy burdens from our bosoms take, What parched fields refresh as with a shower. We kneel, and all around us seems to lower; We rise, and all, the distant and the near, Stands forth in…
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Isaac Watts • English
1 Samuel 2:1
Lord, what a heaven of saving grace Shines through the beauties of thy face, And lights our passions to a flame! Lord, how we love thy charming name! When I can say, “My God is mine,” When I can feel thy glories shine, I tread the world beneath my feet, And all that earth calls g…
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Henry Francis Lyte • English
Psalm 53
Lord, what a world of sense and sin, I find around me and within! And in Your mind what thoughts must rise, When You observe man from the skies! Thy glorious work so overthrown, Thy children all rebellious grown, Thy followers faint and few, and those Encompassed by unnumbered fo…
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John Taylor • English
Isaiah 1:13-18
Lord! what offering shall we bring, At Thine altars when we bow? Hearts, the pure, unsullied spring, Whence the kind affections flow: Willing hands, to lead the blind, Heal the wounded, feed the poor; Love, embracing all our kind, Charity, with liberal store. Teach us, O thou Hea…
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Acts 2:39
Lord! what our ears have heard, Our eyes delighted, trace, Thy love in long succession shown To ev'ry virtuous race. Our children thou dost claim, And mark them out for thine: Ten thousand blessings to thy name For goodness so divine! Thy cov'nant may they keep, And bless the hap…
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Thomas H. Gill (1850) • English
Luke 1:53
Lord! when I all things would possess, I crave but to be thine; Oh, lowly is the loftiness Of these desires divine. Each gift but helps my soul to learn How boundless is thy store; I go from strength to strength, and yearn For thee, my Helper, more. How can my soul divinely soar,…
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Isaac Watts • English
Psalm 12
Lord, when iniquities abound, And growing crimes appear; We view the deluge rising round, With sorrow and with fear. Yet, when its waves most fiercely beat, And spread destruction wide; Thy spirit can a standard raise To stem the roaring tide. May thy triumphant arm awake, Thy sa…
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William Dalrymple Maclagan • English
Luke 23:43
'Lord, when thy kingdom comes, remember me!' Thus spake the dying lips to dying ears; O faith, which in that darkest hour could see the promised glory of the far-off years! No kingly sign declares that glory now, no ray of hope lights up that awful hour; a thorny crown surrounds…
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Joseph D. Carlyle (1802) • English
Psalm 32:1
Lord, when we bend before thy throne, And our confessions pour, Teach us to feel the sins we own, And hate what we deplore. Have mercy, have mercy, Have mercy, have mercy. Our broken spirits, pitying see; True penitence impart; And let a kindling glance from thee Light hope withi…
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Paul Gerhardt • English
Isaiah 61:10
Lord, when your glory I shall see and taste your kingdom's pleasure, your blood my royal robe shall be, my joy beyond all measure! When I appear before your throne, your righteousness shall be my crown; with these I need not hide me. And there, in garments richly wrought, as your…
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Fanny J. Crosby • English
Romans 12:2
Lord, where Thou wilt—it matters not to me, If Thou art near, and I can cling to Thee; For I am weak, so weak, I am afraid To take one step without Thy kindly aid. Lead Thou my way, my fainting heart sustain; Lead Thou my way, and make my duty plain; Lead Thou my way, then shall…
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John Reynell Wreford (1837) • English
Deuteronomy 28:8
Lord, while for humankind we pray of every clime and coast, O hear us for our native land, the land we love the most. Our fathers' resting places here, and here our kindred dwell, our children too: how should we love another land so well? O guard our shores from every foe, with p…
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Adelaide Thrupp (1853) • English
Mark 10:6-7
Lord, Who at Cana’s wedding feast Didst as a guest appear, Thou dearer far than earthly guest, Vouchsafe Thy presence here; For holy Thou indeed dost prove The marriage vow to be, Proclaiming it a type of love Between the Church and Thee. The holiest vow that man can make, The go…
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John Barnard • English
Isaiah 53
Lord, who hath our report believed? Who thy Messiah hath received? Sprung, like a shrub, from barren ground; In him no form, or beauty's found. Despised, disowned, to sorrows born; From him we turned our race in scorn. Truly, our pains, and griefs, he bore; When God, we thought,…
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John Scrimger • English
Psalm 15
Lord, who shall come to thee, And stand before thy face? Who shall abide, a welcome guest, Within thy holy place? The man of upright life, Sincere in word and deed, Who slanders neither friend nor foe, No idle tales will heed. Who honors godly men, But scorns the false and vile,…
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William Romanis (1878) • English
Matthew 20:20-28
Lord, who shall sit beside thee, enthroned on either hand, when clouds no longer hide thee, 'mid all thy faithful band? Who drinks the cup of sorrow thy Father gave to thee 'neath shadows of the morrow in dark Gethsemane; who on thy passion thinking can find in loss a gain, and d…
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Psalm 15
LORD! who shall to thy Courts repair, And, crown'd with Bliss, inhabit there? Oh! who shall find that late Retreat? Not Stranger-like awhile to stay, As, those who transient Visits pay; But fix with thee a lasting Seat? 'Tis he whose pure unspotted Heart, Doth pure and spotless T…
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Claudia Frances Hernaman (1873) • English
Leviticus 9:23
Lord, who throughout these forty days, For us did fast and pray, Teach us with you to mourn our sins, And close by you to stay. As you with Satan did contend, And did the vict'ry win, O give us strength in you to fight, In you to conquer sin. As you did hunger bear and thirst, So…
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Psalm 15
Lord, who's the happy man that may to thy blest courts repair, Not, stranger-like, to visit them, but to inhabit there? 'Tis he, whose ev'ry thought, and deed by rules of virtue moves; Whose gen'rous tongue disdains to speak the thing his heart disproves. Who never did a slander…
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Francis Scott Key (1819) • English
Isaiah 65:1
Lord, with glowing heart I'd praise thee for the bliss thy love bestows, for the pard'ning grace that saves me, and the peace that from it flows. Help, O God, my weak endeavor; this dull soul to rapture raise; thou must light the flame, or never can my love be warmed to praise. P…
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Henry Francis Lyte • English
Psalm 73
LORD, You are good: I know it well. To You alone the praise is due. If I have stood while others fell, It is Your grace has born me through. Your presence still my strength supplied, Your hand did every want relieve. Your counsel to the end will guide, Your glory then my soul rec…
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Psalm 90
Lord, thou hast been our dwelling place through all the ages of our race; before the mountains had their birth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth, from everlasting thou art God, to everlasting our abode. O teach thou us to count our days, and set our hearts on wisdom’s ways; tu…
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Albert H. Frank (1991) • English
Psalm 113
Lord, your praise we sing, our glad thanks we bring, for your favor, gracious Savior. Lord, your praise we sing. You loved us on earth from your wondrous birth; healing, teaching, seeking, reaching; you loved us on earth. You o'ercame the foe so that we might go on to heaven, cle…
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John Needham • English
Proverbs 3:5-6
Lord, through the dubious paths of life, Thy feeble servant guide; Supported by thy powerful arm, My footsteps shall not slide. The thee, O my unerring guide! I would myself resign; In all my ways acknowledge thee, And form my will by thine. Thus shall each blessing of thine hand…
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Eben E. Rexford • English
Isaiah 56:2
Again the Sabbath God has blest, To us returns with peace and rest; And to His courts we come to pay, Our tribute on the Lord’s own day. Oh, blessed day, in which we turn Our hearts to God, and Heav’n, and learn The lesson of its holy calm, And worship Him, the great I am. Today…
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Psalm 8
Los cielos anuncian tus obras, Señor, La gloria y potencia de su Creador; El día y la noche levantan su voz, Y en toda la tierra alaban a Dios. Oh Dios, tu palabra es fiel y veraz; A los que la guardan da gozo y paz. Tus leyes perfectas y límpidas son; Tu sabiduría dan al corazón…
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Charles Wesley • Pedro Castro • Spanish
Luke 2:10-11
Los heraldos celestiales Cantan con sonora voz: "¡Gloria el rey recién nacido, Que del cielo descendió!" Paz, misericordia plena, Franca reconciliación Entre Dios, tan ultrajado, Y el mortal que le ofendió. La divinidad sublime En la carne se veló; Ved a Dios morando en carne, Y…
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Psalm 125:1-2
Los que confían en Jehová son como el monte de Sión, que no se mueve, sino que permanece para siempre. Como Jerusalén tiene montes alrededor de ella, así Jehová está alrededor de us pueblo.
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Charles Wesley • Jose M. de Mora • Spanish
Hebrews 12:1-3
Los santos de la tierra y los del cielo Componen una sola comunión; Todas la gracia del Señor reciben Unidos por los lazos del amor. Como un ejército del Dios viviente, Su voz nos es forzoso obedecer; Una parte ha cruzado ya el torrente Y la otra parte cruzará después. ¡Vedlo! Mi…
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Joel Barlow • English
Psalm 88
O God of my salvation, hear My nightly groan, my daily pray'r, That still employ my wasting breath; My soul, declining to the grave, Implores thy sov'reign Pow'r to save From dark despair and lasting death. Thy wrath lies heavy on my soul, And waves of sorrows o'er me roll, While…
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Mrs. Frank A. Breck • English
Luke 15:4-6
An hundred dear sheep in my tenderness shared, But one had grown weary of home; No more for my love or my blessing it cared, But far from the Shepherd would roam. So precious to me was the sheep that was mine, I breasted the storm and the cold, And willingly left the dear ninety…
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Barney Elliott Warren (1893) • English
Revelation 20:15
Where is thy hope, poor sinner? What are you going to do? O, hope is a God-given anchor, Lavished so freely on you; If it is fixed in the Savior, On that bright shore you will land; But, if in sin you still linger, Sad your end. Lost, forever! Lost, forever! Oh, how sad! Where is…
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Psalm 148
Loud HALLELUJAH sing from heav'n JEHOVAH praise On high his honours ring, and with his highest lays. Ye angels lead; and all his hosts round heav'ns wide coasts His glory spread. Praise Him ye sun and moon, to whom ye owe your light: Praise Him ye stars, who run your glitt'ring c…
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John Barnard • English
Psalm 148
Loud Hallelujah's sing: From heavens Jehovah praise; His fame the Imperial ring. In the sublimest lays. Angels begin The lofty song; His hosts great throng, To praise strike in. Praise him, ye sun, and moon, Which rule the day, and night; His praise be all your tune, Ye glitterin…
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Philip Doddridge • English
Psalm 45:3-4
Loud to the prince of heav'n, Your cheerful voices raise, To him your vows be giv'n, And fill his courts with praise. With conscious worth, And clad in arms, All bright in charms He sallies forth.
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D. S. Warner • English
Revelation 14
Onward moves the great Eternal, In the order of His plan; Louder, nearer rolls the thunder, Of His awful word to man. Louder, louder, hallelujah! See the glorious fountain flow; From the midst of Heav’n proclaim it, Oh, it makes me white as snow. Since by sin this earth was bligh…
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Isaac Watts • English
Psalm 63:6-10
Let Pharisees of high esteem Their faith and zeal declare: All their religion is a dream, If love be wanting there. Love suffers long with patient eye, Nor is provok'd in haste; She lets the present inj'ry die, And long forgets the past. Malice and rage, those fires of hell, She…
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Isaac Watts • English
Psalm 61:1-6
Now by the bowels of my God, His sharp distress, his sore complaints, By his last groans, his dying blood, I charge my soul to love the saints. Clamor, and wrath, and war, begone, Envy and spite, for ever cease; Let bitter words no more be known Amongst the saints, the sons of pe…
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Nicolaus Ludwig, Graf von Zinzendorf • John Wesley (1740) • English
Psalm 42:2
I thirst, Thou wounded Lamb of God, To wash me in Thy cleansing blood; To dwell within Thy wounds; then pain Is sweet, and life or death is gain. Take my poor heart, and let it be Forever closed to all but Thee: Seal Thou my breast, and let me wear That pledge of love forever the…
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John Hugh McNaughton (1854) • English
John 11:5
There is beauty all around, When there’s love at home; There is joy in every sound, When there’s love at home; Peace and plenty here abide, Smiling sweet on every side, Time doth softly, sweetly glide, When there’s love at home. Love at home, love at home; Time doth softly, sweet…
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Christina Georgina Rossetti (1885) • English
Song of Solomon 8:6-7
Love came down at Christmas, Love all lovely, Love divine; Love was born at Christmas; star and angels gave the sign. Worship we the Godhead, Love incarnate, Love divine; worship we our Jesus, but wherewith for sacred sign? Love shall be our token; love be yours and love be mine;…
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S. B. McManus (1902) • English
John 13:1-20
Love consecrates the humblest act and haloes mercy’s deeds; it sheds a benediction sweet and hallows human needs. When in the shadow of the cross Christ knelt and washed the feet of his disciples he gave us a sign of love complete. Love serves and willing stoops to serve; what Ch…
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Gerald E. Bonney (1922) • English
John 3:16
It was love that sent a Savior To this world of sin and woe; It was love that left heav’n’s portals, And came down to dwell below; It was love that stilled the waters On the stormy Galilee; It was love that paid sin’s ransom, One dark day on Calvary. Love so divine, Love so subli…
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Charles Wesley (1747) • English
Genesis 1:26-27
Love divine, all loves excelling, Joy of Heav'n to Earth come down, Fix in us thy humble dwelling, All thy faithful mercies crown; Jesus, thou art all compassion, Pure, unbounded love thou art; Visit us with thy salvation, Enter ev'ry trembling heart. Breathe, O breathe thy lovin…
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Luella B. Henry • English
John 15:12
Let us ever love each other With a heart that’s warm and true, Ever doing to our brother As to us we’d have him do. Kind and loving to each other, Gentle words to all we meet— Thus we follow Christ our Savior, Proving all His service sweet. When the heart is sad and lonely, And t…
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W. H. Brown • English
Luke 15:23
John, John, what do you say? Love-feast in heaven to-day. The gates are open to all who pray: Love-feast in heaven to-day. Reign, O reign! Reign, my lord! Reign, O reign, There’s a love-feast in heaven to-day. Peter and James went up to see: Love-feast in heaven to-day. There’s r…
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Samuel Longfellow (1864) • English
Jeremiah 3:12-14
Love for all! and can it be? Can I hope it is for me— I, who strayed so long ago; Strayed so far, and fell so low? I, the disobedient child, Wayward, passionate and wild; I, who left my Father's home, In forbidden ways to roam; I, who spurned his loving hold; I, who would not be…
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Psalm 122
My heart was glad to hear the welcome sound, the call to seek Jehovah's house of prayer; our feet are standing here on holy ground, within thy gates, thou city grand and fair. God's people to Jerusalem repair to hear his word and worship him with praise; the throne of justice sta…
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Avis B. Christiansen • English
1 John 3:1
Wonderful love that rescued me, Sunk deep in sin, Guilty and vile as I could be No hope within; When ev'ry ray of light had fled, O glorious day! Raising my soul from out the dead, Love found a way. Love found a way to redeem my soul, Love found a way that could make me whole; Lo…
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Henry L. Gilmour • English
John 3:16
When out in sin, and darkness lost, Love found me; My fainting soul was tempest toss’d, Love found me; I heard the Saviour’s words so blest, Love found me; Come weary, heavy laden rest, Love found me. Oh, ‘twas love, love Love that moved the mighty God, Love, love, ‘twas love fou…
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Isaac Watts (1715) • English
Leviticus 19
Love God with all your soul and strength. With all your heart and mind; And love your neighbor as yourself: Be faithful, just, and kind. Deal with another as you’d have Another deal with you: What you’re unwilling to receive, Be sure you never do.
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John Macleod Campbell Crum • English
Ezekiel 37:3-5
Now the green blade riseth, from the buried grain, Wheat that in dark earth many days has lain; Love lives again, that with the dead has been: Love is come again like wheat that springeth green. In the grave they laid Him, Love who had been slain, Thinking that He never would awa…
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D. S. Warner • English
Jeremiah 31:3
O love divine, unfathomed! O shoreless sea of bliss! Thy throne the highest heaven, Yet flowing down to this Dark world of guilt and sorrow, Redeems the fettered soul; Thy paths of peace I follow, O love, our hearts extol! O love! supreme affection! We bow low at thy shrine, Love…
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John Greenleaf Whittier (1848) • English
Micah 4:2-4
Fold to your heart your sister and your brother: where pity dwells, the peace of God is there; to worship rightly and to love each other, each smile a hymn, each kindly deed a prayer. For he whom Jesus loved has truly spoken: the holier worship which He deigns to bless restores t…
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Eliza E. Hewitt • English
1 Peter 5:7
All the future years are held within the Father’s keeping; On the pages yet unturned, we cannot read a line; But His promises, like stars, will light the night of weeping; All along our pilgrim way, His word will shine. Love is shining all along our way; God is caring for us ev’r…
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Benjamin Beddome (1818) • English
1 John 4:16
Love is the fountain whence All true obedience flows; The Christian serves the God he loves, And loves the God he knows. He treads the heav'nly road, And neither faints nor tires; That gen'rous love which warms his breast With fortitude inspires. No burden seems so great, No task…
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Albert C. Fisher • English
1 John 4:8-9
Of the themes that men have known, One supremely stands alone; Through the ages it has shown, 'Tis His wonderful, wonderful love. Love is the theme, love is supreme; Sweeter it grows, glory bestows; Bright as the sun ever it glows! Love is the theme, eternal theme! Let the bells…
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James Rowe (1912) • English
Psalm 40:2
I was sinking deep in sin, Far from the peaceful shore, Very deeply stained within, Sinking to rise no more; But the Master of the sea Heard my despairing cry, From the waters lifted me– Now safe am I. Love lifted me, Love lifted me, When nothing else could help, Love lifted me;…
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Fanny J. Crosby • English
1 John 4:10
O love, amazing love, That wounded thou should’st be For my transgressions, Lord, And sacrificed for me. Love my ransom paid, Love my sorrow bore, Love has opened the gate of life; That Love will I adore. Thou, like a gentle lamb, Wast to the slaughter led, My guilty sins were la…
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Flora Kirkland • English
1 Corinthians 13:8
Out in the darkness, Shadow'd by sin, Souls are in bondage, Souls we would win. How can we win them? How show the way? "Love never faileth," Love is the way. "Love never faileth," Love is the way. Think how the Master Came from above, Suffer'd on Calv'ry. Breathing out love; Thin…
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Gertrude A. Flory • English
1 John 2:15
Love not the world! Its dazzling show Conceals a snare of death; The sweetest joy earth can bestow, Dies as a wasted breath. Love not the world is Jesus' plea, Sweet life to you he brought; Alone with death on Calvary, Your sin-lost soul he sought. Love not the world! Its wealth,…
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William Cushing • English
Philemon 1:5
Let my heart be pure from sin, Filled with the love of Jesus; Help me, Lord, Thy grace to win, Filled with the love of Jesus; All Thou bid’st me I would do, While Thy loving life I view; Faithful be my heart, and true, Filled with the love of Jesus. To my lips Thy truth impart, F…
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Genesis 1:1-5
Love of the Father, Love of God the Son, from whom all came, in whom was all begun; who formest heavenly beauty out of strife, creation's whole desire and breath of life: Thou the all-holy, thou supreme in might, thou dost give peace, thy presence maketh right; thou with thy favo…
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Grant Colfax Tullar • English
Song of Solomon 2:16
Jesus the Savior, dying on Calv’ry, Purchased my pardon, setting me free. Love so abundant, should I not serve Him, When He so gladly suffered for me? Lord, I am Thine, Savior divine, O what a joy Just to know, Thou art mine. O what a Savior, tender and loving, Guarding my footst…
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Psalm 133:1
Our God is love; and all his saints His image bear below: The heart with love to God inspired, With love to man will glow, With love to man will glow. None who are truly born of God Can live at enmity; Then may we love each other, Lord, As we are loved by thee, As we are loved by…
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Ray Palmer • English
Matthew 25:6
Lord, thou on earth didst love thine own, Didst love them to the end; Oh, still from thy celestial throne, Let gifts of love descend. The love the Father bears to thee, His own eternal Son, Fill all thy saints, till all shall be In pure affection one. As thou for us didst stoop s…
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Isaac Watts • English
Psalm 109
God of my mercy and my praise, Thy glory is my song; tho' sinners speak against Thy grace with a blaspheming tongue. O GOD, my Lord, for Thy Name's sake in mercy deal with me; because Thy kindness is so great, from trouble set me free. O Thou who art my LORD and God, Thy gracious…
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Philip Doddridge • English
Matthew 5:44
Aloud we sing the wond'rous grace, Christ to his murderers bare; which made the tottering cross its throne, And hung its trophies there. "Father forgive," his mercy cry'd, With his expiring breath, And drew eternal blessings down On those who wrought his deat. Jesus, this wond'ro…
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Isaac Watts • English
Ecclesiastes 1:2
How vain are all things here below! How false, and yet how fair! Each pleasure hath its poison too, And every sweet a snare. The brightest things below the sky Give but a flattering light; We should suspect some danger nigh Where we possess delight. Our dearest joy, and nearest f…
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St. Bernard of Clairvaux • Anton Wilhelm Böhm • English
Psalm 24:7
Of Him Who did salvation bring, I’m at the fountain drinking, I could forever think and sing, I’m on my journey home. Glory to God, I’m at the fountain drinking, Glory to God, I’m on my journey home. Ask but His grace, and lo! ’tis giv’n, I’m at the fountain drinking, Ask, and He…
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Charles Wesley (1740) • English
Psalm 29:2
Come, and let us sweetly join, Christ to praise in hymns divine; give we all with one accord glory to our common Lord. Hands and hearts and voices raise, sing as in the ancient days; antedate the joys above, celebrate the feast of love. Jesus, dear expected Guest, thou art bidden…
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Charles Wesley • English
Isaiah 57:15
Come, thou high and lofty Lord: Lowly, meek, incarnate word; Humbly stoop to earth again; Come, and visit abject man! Jesu, dear expected guest, Thou art bidden to the feast: For thyself our hearts prepare! Come, and sit, and banquet there. Jesu, we thy promise claim: We are met…
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Charles Wesley • English
1 John 1:7
While we walk with God in light, God our hearts doth still unite; Dearest fellowship we prove, Fellowship in Jesus' love: Sweetly each, with each combined, In the bonds of duty joined, Feels the cleansing blood applied, Daily feels that Christ hath died. Still, O Lord, our faith…
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Seth Sykes • English
1 John 4:10
Love, wonderful love of God, So boundless, so free; To think that Christ His only Son Should die on Calvary; Oh love so great, so vast, so high, That He should for the sinner die. Love, wonderful love, The love of Christ to me, Love, wonderful love, So rich, so full, so free; Wid…
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Mattie Alice Long • English
Matthew 21:28
We are little children, Ever bright and gay; We will work for Jesus All the live-long day. Yes, we’ll work, work, work, And our duty never shirk, We will work, we will work for Jesus. We will learn our lessons Ev’ry day in school; We’ll obey our teachers, Never break a rule. We’l…
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Edwin Pond Parker (1888) • English
Matthew 25:40
Master, no offering, Costly and sweet, May we, like Magdalene, Lay at thy feet; Yet may love's incense rise, Sweeter than sacrifice, Dear Lord, to thee. Daily our lives would show Weakness made strong, Toilsome and gloomy ways Brightened with song; Some deeds of kindness done, So…
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Flora Kirkland • English
Genesis 9:12
Life is not a cloudless journey, Storms and darkness oft oppress, But the Father's changeless mercy, Comes to cheer the heart's distress; Heavy clouds may darkly hover, Hiding all faith's view above. But across the thickest darkness, Shines the rainbow of His love. After storm th…
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Charles Wesley • English
Matthew 27:57-66
Love's redeeming work is done; fought the fight, the battle won: lo, our Sun's eclipse is o'er, lo, he sets in blood no more. Vain the stone, the watch, the seal; Christ has burst the gates of hell; death in vain forbids his rise; Christ has opened paradise. Lives again our glori…
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John Relly • English
Romans 8:38-39
How rich the love! my Lord, my God; For me, a worm, hath died; For me he shed his living blood; I know no God beside. The source of all my happiness Is his eternal name; Nor is there ought but dung and dross Besides my dearest Lamb. All things shall perish but the word, He stands…
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John Newton • English
John 21:15-16
'Tis a point I long to know, Oft it causes anxious thought; Do I love the Lord, or no? Am I his, or am I not? Could my heart so hard remain, Prayer a task and burden prove, Every trifle give me pain, If I knew a Saviour's love? Yet I mourn my stubborn will, Find my sin a grief an…
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