<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=355926" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>A Bruised Reed Shall He Not Break</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I will accept thy will to do and be,<br>Thy hatred and intolerance of sin,<br>Thy will at least to love, that burns within<br>And thirsteth after Me:<br>So will I render fruitful, blessing still,<br>The germs and small beginnings in thy heart,<br>Because thy will cleaves to the better part.—<br>Alas, I cannot will.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Dost not thou will, poor soul? Yet I receive<br>The inner unseen longings of the soul, <br>I guide them turning towards Me; I control<br>And charm hearts till they grieve:<br>If thou desire, it yet shall come to pass,<br>Though thou but wish indeed to choose My love;<br>For I have power in earth and heaven above.—<br>I cannot wish, alas!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">What, neither choose nor wish to choose? and yet<br>I still must strive to win thee and constrain:<br>For thee I hung upon the cross in pain,<br>How then can I forget? <br>If thou as yet dost neither love, nor hate,<br>Nor choose, nor wish,—resign thyself, be still<br>Till I infuse love, hatred, longing, will.—<br>I do not deprecate.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Christina+Georgina+Rossetti">Christina Georgina Rossetti</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=355926" data-title="A Bruised Reed Shall He Not Break de Christina Georgina Rossetti" data-description="I will accept thy will to do and be, Thy hatred and intolerance of sin, Thy will at least to love, that burns within And thirsteth after Me: So will I render fruitful, blessing still, The germs and small beginnings in thy heart, Because thy will c..."></div> </div> </div>

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