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ADORATION by JEANNE MARIE BOUVIER DE LA MOTTE GUYON

First Line: I LOVE MY GOD, BUT WITH NO LOVE OF MINE
Last Line: OUR SOURCE, OUR CENTRE, AND OUR DWELLING-PLACE!
Subject(s): GOD; JEWS; RELIGION; JUDAISM; THEOLOGY;
I LOVE my God, but with no love of mine,
For I have none to give;
I love thee, Lord, but all the love is thine,
For by thy life I live.
I am as nothing, and rejoice to be
Emptied and lost and swallowed up in thee.
Thou, Lord, alone art all thy children need,
And there is none beside;
From thee the streams of blessedness proceed;
In thee the blest abide.
Fountain of life, and all-abounding grace,
Our source, our centre, and our dwelling-place!



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