There's a Wideness in God's Mercy

​1    There's a wideness in God's mercy,    
    like the wideness of the sea;
    there's a kindness in God's justice
    which is more than liberty.
    There is no place where earth's sorrows
    are more felt than up in heav'n.
    There is no place where earth's failings
    have such kindly judgment giv'n.


2    There is welcome for the sinner,
    and a promised grace made good;
    there is mercy with the Savior;
    there is healing in his blood.
    There is grace enough for thousands
    of new worlds as great as this;
    there is room for fresh creations
    in that upper home of bliss.


3    For the love of God is broader
    than the measures of our mind;
    and the heart of the Eternal
    is most wonderfully kind.
    But we make this love too narrow
    by false limits of our own;
    and we magnify its strictness
    with a zeal God will not own.


4    'Tis not all we owe to Jesus;
    it is something more than all:
    greater good because of evil,
    larger mercy through the fall.
    Make our love, O God, more faithful;
    let us take you at your word,
    and our lives will be thanksgiving
    for the goodness of the Lord.