Quote#Pride
Dear Lord! while we adoring pay
Quote byAnne Steele · 1716–1778
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 371..
English (original)
Dear Lord! while we adoring pay Our humble thanks to Thee, May every heart with rapture say,— "The Saviour died for me!"
— Anne Steele
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