Earthly joy can take but a bat-like flight, always checked, always limited, in dusk and darkness. But the love of Christ breaks through the vaulting, and leads us up into the free sky above, expanding to the very throne of Jehovah, and drawing us still upward to the infinite heights of glory.
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About Frances Ridley Havergal
Frances Ridley Havergal was a 19th-century British poet and hymn-writer. Frances Ridley Havergal was an English religious poet and hymnwriter. Take My Life and Let It Be and Thy Life for Me are two of her best known hymns. Read more on Wikipedia →