Angie Conjurske

Dear Lord, I ask for liberty

That in my heart you’d make me free.

By Saadi, translated by Richard Chenevix Trench

His courtiers of the caliph crave:

      “O say how this may be,

Lyke as the armed knight
Appointed to the feeld,

Mary Bowley Peters 

Through the love of God our Saviour,
     All will be well;

Christ leads us through no darker rooms
     Than he went through before:

I want to live near Jesus,
     And never go astray,

Pain’s furnace-heat within me quivers,
             God’s breath upon the fire doth blow,

Matthew Bridges 

My God, accept my heart this day,
And make it always Thine,

Though trouble God pleases to send,
   May come, like the clouds o'er the sky,

James Montgomery 

In time of tribulation
Hear, Lord, my feeble cries;

O God! Though sorrow be my fate,

And the world’s hate

Moravian Collection of Hymns

O dearest Lamb, take thou my heart!

Where can such sweetness be

O Lord, I yield me to thy grace,

Grant me mercy for my trespass;

After the rain, the sunlight is brighter;

After a storm, the breezes are lighter;

Helen Maria Williams 

Fountain deep of love and grace,
Who, Lord, can repay Thee thus,

Helen Maria Williams 

While Thee I seek, protecting Power!
Be my vain wishes still’d;

J.S.B. Monsell 

The tide of life was at its flow,
Rose higher day by day;

Fay Inchfawn

I know it all . . . I know.
For I am God. I am Jehovah,