Religion

Mark 3:5: Such may all my anger be

by Charles Wesley 1707–1788

From Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures (1762) · Osborn ed., vol. 10 (1871)

Religion

Such may all my anger be.
Sin when I in others see,
Not the pagan passion blind,
Rage of a vindictive mind,
But the fervency of zeal
Pain'd for those who cannot feel.

Lord, impart Thy grief to me.
Grief for man's obduracy;
Angry at the sin alone,
Let me for the sinner groan,
Till his hardness Thou remove,
His, and mine, by dying love.

MLA

Wesley, Charles. “Mark 3:5: Such may all my anger be.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/wesley_c/4677/.

Chicago

Wesley, Charles. “Mark 3:5: Such may all my anger be.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/wesley_c/4677/.

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