Quote#Love
Whoever can feel, the love I do tell
Quote byDorothy Ripley · 1767–1832
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: The Bank of Faith and Works United (1819), A Hymn From My Nativity (22 August 1819), p. 18.
English (original)
Whoever can feel, the love I do tell, Would take by the heel, poor sinners from hell; As downward they're going, to bring them above; To sing of Christ's dying, a Heaven of love.
— Dorothy Ripley
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