Madeleine L'Engle (1918–2007) American writer
The Crosswicks Journal, The Irrational Season (1977)
“Saviour! teach me, day by day,
Love's sweet lesson to obey;
Sweeter lesson cannot be,
Loving Him who first loved me.
Charity is the very livery of Christ.”
Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 395.
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Loving Him who first loved me.…" by Hugh Latimer?
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