Religion
Matthew 18:21: How difficult the task we find
From Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures (1762) · Osborn ed., vol. 10 (1871)
Religion
How difficult the task we find
To blot and banish from the mind
The evils we receive!
Nature of injuries afraid
Would by a thousand arts evade
The duty to forgive.
Tis always nature's cautious care
In duty not to go too far:
And niggardly self-love
The law would cheaply satisfy.
And do but just enough to buy
The meanest place above.
Cite this poem
MLA
Wesley, Charles. “Matthew 18:21: How difficult the task we find.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/wesley_c/4344/.
Chicago
Wesley, Charles. “Matthew 18:21: How difficult the task we find.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/wesley_c/4344/.
Read this poem with the Codex →