<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=421544" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Is This Thy Kindness To Thy Friend (Christ A Redeemer And Friend)</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Poor, weak and worthless though I am<br>I have a rich almighty friend;<br>Jesus, the Saviour, is His Name;<br>He freely loves, and without end. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">He ransomed me from hell with blood,<br>And by His pow'r my foes controlled;<br>He found me wand'ring far from God,<br>And brought me to His chosen fold. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">He cheers my heart, my wants supplies,<br>And says that I shall shortly be,<br>Enthroned with Him above the skies;<br>O what a friend is Christ to me! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">But ah! I my inmost spirit mourns,<br>And well my eyes with tears may swim,<br>To think of my perverse returns;<br>I've been a faithless friend to him. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Often my gracious Friend I grieve,<br>Neglect, distrust, and disobey,<br>And often Satan's lies believe,<br>Sooner than all my Friend can say. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">He bids me always freely come,<br>And promises whate'er I ask:<br>But I am straitened, cold and dumb,<br>And count my privilege a task. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Before the world that hates his course,<br>My treach'rous heart has throbbed with shame;<br>Loth to forego the worlds applause,<br>I hardly dare avow his name. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Sure were not I most vile and base,<br>I could not thus my friend requite!<br>And were not he the God of grace,<br>He'd frown and spurn me from his sight.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=John+Newton">John Newton</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=421544" data-title="Is This Thy Kindness To Thy Friend (Christ A Redeemer And Friend) de John Newton" data-description="Poor, weak and worthless though I am I have a rich almighty friend; Jesus, the Saviour, is His Name; He freely loves, and without end. He ransomed me from hell with blood, And by His pow'r my foes controlled; He found me wand'ring far from God, ..."></div> </div> </div>

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