O God, In Whom We Live And Move
- Words:
- Samuel Longfellow
- Music:
- Johann Herman Schein
Sheet music
- 1O God, in Whom we live and move,Thy love is law, Thy law is love;Thy present Spirit waits to fillThe soul which comes to do Thy will.Unto our waiting spirits teachThy love beyond the pow’r of speech;And make them know with joyful aweTh’encircling presence of Thy law.
- 2That law doth give to truth and right,Howe’er despised, a conquering might,And makes each, fondly worshiped lieAnd boasting wrong to cow’r and die.Its patient working doth fulfillMan’s hope, and God’s all perfect will,Nor suffers one true word or thoughtOr deed of love to come to naught.
- 3Such faith, O God, our spirits fill,That we may work in patience still;Who works for justice, works with Thee;Who works in love, Thy child shall be.Amen.
In the hymnals
- Written in 1864, the words are in 39 hymnals indexed by Hymnary.org. Their history →
Words, music and setting are in the public domain. The sheet music and words are from PDHymns.com. The piano is the FluidR3 General MIDI sound font (MIT licence). How many hymnals print a hymn, and when it was written, is from Hymnary.org.