<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=537704" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Olney Hymn 43: Prayer For Patience</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Lord, who hast suffer'd all for me, <br>My peace and pardon to procure, <br>The lighter cross I bear for Thee, <br>Help me with patience to endure. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The storm of loud repining hush; <br>I would in humble silence mourn; <br>Why should the unburnt, though burning bush, <br>Be angry as the crackling thorn? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Man should not faint at Thy rebuke, <br>Like Joshua falling on his face, <br>When the cursed thing that Achan took <br>Brought Israel into just disgrace. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Perhaps some golden wedge suppress'd, <br>Some secret sin offends my God; <br>Perhaps that Babylonish vest, <br>Self-righteousness, provokes the rod. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Ah! were I buffeted all day, <br>Mock'd, crown'd with thorns and spit upon, <br>I yet should have no right to say, <br>My great distress is mine alone. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Let me not angrily declare <br>No pain was ever sharp like mine, <br>Nor murmur at the cross I bear, <br>But rather weep, remembering Thine.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=William+Cowper">William Cowper</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=537704" data-title="Olney Hymn 43: Prayer For Patience de William Cowper" data-description="Lord, who hast suffer'd all for me, My peace and pardon to procure, The lighter cross I bear for Thee, Help me with patience to endure. The storm of loud repining hush; I would in humble silence mourn; Why should the unburnt, though burning..."></div> </div> </div>

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