“Make me like a little child,
Simple, teachable, and mild;
Seeing only in Thy light;
Walking only in Thy might!”

— John Berridge

Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 334.

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British priest 1716–1793

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