<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=421557" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Martha And Mary</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Martha her love and joy expressed<br>By care to entertain her guest;<br>While Mary sat to hear her Lord,<br>And could not bear to lose a word. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The principle in both the same,<br>Produced in each a different aim;<br>The one to feast the Lord was led,<br>The other waited to be fed. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">But Mary chose the better part,<br>Her Saviour's words refreshed her heart;<br>While busy Martha angry grew,<br>And lost her time and temper too. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">With warmth she to her sister spoke,<br>But brought upon herself rebuke;<br>One thing is needful, and but one,<br>Why do thy thoughts on many run? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">How oft are we like Martha vexed,<br>Encumbered, hurried, and perplexed!<br>While trifles so engross our thought,<br>The one thing needful is forgot. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Lord teach us this one thing to choose,<br>Which they who gain can never lose;<br>Sufficient in itself alone,<br>And needful, were the world our own. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Let groveling hearts the world admire,<br>Thy love is all that I require!<br>Gladly I may the rest resign,<br>If the one needful thing be mine!</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=421557" data-title="Martha And Mary de John Newton" data-description="Martha her love and joy expressed By care to entertain her guest; While Mary sat to hear her Lord, And could not bear to lose a word. The principle in both the same, Produced in each a different aim; The one to feast the Lord was led, The other ..."></div> </div> </div>

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