It is no answer to tell me that you disapprove of a religion of feelings. If you mean by that that you dislike a religion consisting of nothing but feelings, I agree with you entirely. But if you mean to shut out feelings altogether, you can know little of Christianity. The Bible teaches us plainly that a man may have good feelings without any true religion. But it teaches us no less plainly that there can be no true religion without some feeling towards Christ.
J.C. Ryle

LOVE OF GOD

I LOVE Thee, Thou God of mine,
Because Thou first hast loved me:
And all my liberty resign
That I may willing follow Thee.

Nothing that memory can suggest,
But doth with Thy effulgence blend;

The mind’s extremest range, at best.
Thy greatness fails to comprehend.

Nothing, Lord, will I desire
Not sanctioned by Thy holy will;
All things are Thine that I acquire.
All I bestow. Thy bounty still.

Take from me all Thy gifts reveal;
Resume whatever pleaseth Thee;
Direct me as Thou wilt, I feel
In every act Thou lovest me.

Oh, grant me but Thy love divine,
My love for Thee will reign supreme;
Grant this, and all things else are mine,
Without it life is but a dream.

C. C. Cox.