by revd | May 1, 2022 | Believers
Batter my heart, three-personed God, for you As yet but knock, breathe, shine, and seek to mend; That I may rise and stand, o’erthrow me and bend Your force to break, blow, burn, and make me new. I, like an usurped town to another due, Labour to admit you, but...
by revd | May 1, 2022 | Humankind
Hear me, O God! A broken heart Is my best prayer; Use still thy rod That I may prove Therein thy love. If thou hadst not Been stern to me, But left me free, I had forgot Myself and Thee. For sin’s so sweet, As minds ill bent Rarely repent, Until they meet Their...
by revd | May 1, 2022 | Humankind
My God, I heard this day, That none doth build a stately habitation, But he that means to dwell therein. What house more stately hath there been, Or can be, then is Man? To whose creation All things are in decay. For man is ev’ry thing, And more…. Since then, my...
by revd | May 1, 2022 | Humankind
The world was all before them, where to choose Their place of rest, and providence their guide: They, hand in hand, with wandering steps and slow, Through Eden took their solitary way. John Milton (1608-74), Paradise...
by revd | May 1, 2022 | Humankind
Know thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of Mankind is Man. Plac’d on this isthmus of a middle state, A being darkly wise, and rudely great: With too much knowledge for the Sceptic side, With too much weakness for the Stoic’s pride, He hangs between; in...
