With guilt's defilement stained, without, within,
How may I hope Thy cleansing grace to win?
Because Thou saidst, "I have forgiven thy sin."


Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 87.

Margaret Junkin Preston Quotes

With guilt's defilement stained, without, within, How may I hope Thy cleansing grace to win? Because Thou saidst, I have forgiven thy sin.

With guilt's defilement stained, without, within, How may I hope Thy cleansing grace to win? Because Thou saidst, I have forgiven thy sin.

With guilt's defilement stained, without, within, How may I hope Thy cleansing grace to win? Because Thou saidst, I have forgiven thy sin.

With guilt's defilement stained, without, within, How may I hope Thy cleansing grace to win? Because Thou saidst, I have forgiven thy sin.