We lie in the very dust before you in utter shame, to think that we have sometimes heard the story of God’s love to us in Christ without emotion, and even told it without tenderness. The theme truly has never become stale to us. We can say in your presence that the story of Christ’s death still brings joy, and makes our hearts to leap.
But yet, Lord, it never has affected us as we could have expected it would. Give us more tenderness of heart, give us to feel the wounds of Jesus till they wound our sins to death. Give us to have a heart pierced even as his was, with deep sympathy for his griefs, and an all-consuming love for his blessed person.
Love these quotes & prayers. Deep & sincere, just as the man was.
Great