There's a wideness in God's mercy

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1
There's a wideness in God's mercy, 
like the wideness of the sea. 
There's a kindness in God's justice, 
which is more than liberty. 

2
There is welcome for the sinner, 
and more graces for the good. 
There is mercy with the Savior, 
there is healing in his blood. 

3
But we make God's love too narrow 
by false limits of our own, 
and we magnify its strictness 
with a zeal God will not own. 

4
For the love of God is broader 
than the measures of the mind, 
and the heart of the Eternal 
is most wonderfully kind. 

5
If our love were but more simple 
we should rest upon God's word, 
and our lives would be illumined 
by the presence of our Lord.

#145 in Hymnal: A Worship Book

Words:  Frederick W. Faber, Oratory Hymns, 1854, Hymns, 1862
Tune:     Lizzie S Tourjee, Hymnal of the Methodist Church with Tunes, 1878

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