There’s a Wideness in Your Mercy

There’s a wideness in your mercy like the wideness of the sea;

there’s a kindness in your justice which is more than liberty.

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But we make your love too narrow by false limits of our own,

and we magnify your strictness with a zeal you will not own.

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For the love of God is broader than the measures of our minds

and the heart of the Eternal is most wonderfully kind.