Hymn
O Love of God, How Strong and True
O love of God, how strong and true!
Eternal, and yet ever new;
Uncomprehended and unbought,
Beyond all knowledge and all thought.
O heav'nly love, how precious still,
In days of weariness and ill,
In nights of pain and helplessness,
To heal, to comfort, and to bless!
O wide-embracing, wondrous love!
We read thee in the sky above,
We read thee in the earth below,
In seas that swell, and streams that flow.
We read thee best in Him who came
To bear for us the cross of shame;
Sent by the Father from on high,
Our life to live, our death to die.
We read thy pow'r to bless and save,
E'en in the darkness of the grave;
Still more in resurrection light
We read the fullness of thy might.
O love of God, our shield and stay
Thro' all the perils of our way!
Eternal love, in thee we rest,
For ever safe, forever blest.
O Love of God, How Strong and True — Text from The New Christian Hymnal, 1929. Public domain. https://yeshuanow.com/hymns/o-love-of-god-how-strong-and-true
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Questions about this hymn
Who wrote O Love of God, How Strong and True?
The words of O Love of God, How Strong and True were written by Horatius Bonar; the version here was published in 1929. The library holds 19 more hymns by Horatius Bonar, including Not What These Hands Have Done and For Me He Careth.
Is O Love of God, How Strong and True public domain?
Yes. The words here are taken from The New Christian Hymnal, published in 1929. Works published before 1931 are out of copyright in the United States, so you can print, project, perform and record this hymn freely. How we source and check every hymn.
What is the metre of O Love of God, How Strong and True?
O Love of God, How Strong and True is in Long Metre (8.8.8.8). Hymns in the same metre can usually be sung to the same tunes — for example, Israel Led to Canaan, and Christians to Heaven, The Church is the Garden of God and An Evening Hymn.