Thou hidden love of God, whose height, Whose depth unfathom’d no man knows, I see from far thy beauteous light, Inly I sigh for thy repose; My heart is pain’d, nor can it be At rest, till it finds rest in thee.
Gerhard Tersteegen
"For I determined not to know anything among you, save Jesus Christ, and him crucified" (1 Cor 2:2).
For I determined not to know anything among you, save Jesus Christ, and him crucified.
Thou hidden love of God, whose height, Whose depth unfathom’d no man knows, I see from far thy beauteous light, Inly I sigh for thy repose; My heart is pain’d, nor can it be At rest, till it finds rest in thee.
Gerhard Tersteegen
“He that saith he abideth in him, must also walk as he walked.” We ought not to look much about…
Although we may be delivered from the law, and no longer so conscious of its threatenings, reproofs, and the terror…
You must withdraw into yourself a little and keep quiet before the face of God, then look gently and perfectly…
both in our outward and inward walk, of all subtle hypocrisy, dissimulation, and a self-assumed deportment, which is so displeasing…