Cecil Frances Alexander Quotes

• We praise Thee, Lord, of all the earth, for love and joy, for light and mirth, for every charm of sense and right, and blessings boundless as Thy might.... But most we praise the love that gave thine own dear Son to seek and save, for joy all other joys excelling, for purest light and life indwelling.

  Cecil Frances Alexander

  Jesus, Son, Blessing

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• Christian children all must be Mild, obedient, good as He. . . . . For He is our childhood's pattern, Day by day like us He grew, He was little, weak, and helpless, Tears and smiles like us He knew; And He feeleth for our sadness, And He shareth in our gladness.

  Cecil Frances Alexander

  Christian, Children, Sadness

  Cecil Frances Alexander, “Once in Royal David's City”

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• Do no sinful action, speak no angry word; ye belong to Jesus, children of the Lord.

  Cecil Frances Alexander

  Jesus, Children, Action

  Cecil Frances Alexander (1852). “Hymns for little children”, p.21

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• Todas las cosas brillantes y bellas,
  Todas las criaturas grandes y pequeñas,
  Todas las cosas sabias y maravillosas,
  El Señor Dios las hizo todas.

  Cecil Frances Alexander

  Beautiful, Wise, Wonderful

  "All Things Bright and Beautiful" (hymn) (1848)

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• Al rico en su castillo, al pobre en su puerta, Dios los hizo, altos o humildes, Y ordenó su hacienda.

  Cecil Frances Alexander

  Men, Order, Castles

  'All Things Bright and Beautiful" (hymn) (1848)

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• Hay una verde colina muy lejos, Sin muralla, Donde fue crucificado el amado Señor, Que murió para salvarnos a todos.

  Cecil Frances Alexander

  Jesus, Wall, Cities

  1848 'There is a Green Hill Far Away'

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• He guides us into pastures green, He leads to bowers of bliss, Our Father lives, the God unseen, and Christ our Shepherd is.

  Cecil Frances Alexander

  Father, Unseen, Shepherds

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• Souls in heathen darkness lying, where no light has broken through, souls that Jesus bought by dying, whom his soul in travail knew.... Haste, o haste and spread the tidings, let no shore be left untrod, no lost brother's bitter chidings haunt us from the further sod; tell the heathen all the precious truths of God.

  Cecil Frances Alexander

  Jesus, Brother, Lying

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• When the friends we love the best Lie in their churchyard bed, We must not cry too bitterly Over the happy dead.

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  Love, Lying, Bed

  Cecil Frances Alexander (1871). “Hymns for Little Children”, p.43

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• God hath his mysteries of grace,
  Ways that we cannot tell,
  He hides them deep, like the secret sleep
  Of him he loved so well.

  Cecil Frances Alexander

  God, Sleep, Grace

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• Christian children all must be mild, obedient, good as He.

  Cecil Frances Alexander

  Christian, Children, Obedient

  Cecil Frances Alexander (1871). “Hymns for Little Children”, p.30

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• We are but little children weak Nor born in any high estate. . . . . There's not a child so small and weak But has his little cross to take, His little work of love and praise That he may do for Jesus' sake.

  Cecil Frances Alexander

  Amor, Jesús, Niños

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• Once in royal David's city Stood a lowly cattle shed, Where a Mother laid her Baby In a manger for His bed: Mary was that Mother mild Jesus Christ her little Child . . . With the poor, and mean, and lowly, Lived on earth our Savior Holy.

  Cecil Frances Alexander

  Vida, Madre, Bebé

  1848 'Once in Royal David's City'.

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• He gave us eyes to see them, And lips that we might tell How great is God Almighty, Who has made all things well.

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  Eye, Might, Lips

  Cecil Frances Alexander (1871). “Hymns for Little Children”, p.28

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• Praise Him early, praise Him late, for our high and holy state; born, baptized, redeem'd forever, nought but sin our souls can sever from the Saviour who has bought us, from the Spirit who has taught us. Lord! renew us day by day, never let us fall away.

  Cecil Frances Alexander

  Fall, Taught Us, Forever

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• How rarely boyhood loves to paint in glowing tints his future bright, a picture where no line is faint--whose very clouds are touch'd with light. And girlhood hails a world unknown and reads it in her own glad dreams, as lilies see themselves alone reflected in their azure streams. But rosy clouds that morning brings, ere noon may deepen into thunder--and life's dark stream has sterner things than silver lilies growing under.

  Cecil Frances Alexander

  Dream, Morning, Dark

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