Misc Praise Songs – Praise The Source Of Faith And Learning (Guitar)

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Praise the Source of faith and learning that has sparked and stoked the mind

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with a passion for discerning how the world has been designed.

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Let the sense of won-der flow-ing from the wonders we survey

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keep our faith forever growing and renew our need to pray:

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God of wisdom, we acknowledge that our science and our art

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and the breadth of human knowledge only partial truth impart.

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Far beyond our cal-cu-la-tion lies a depth we cannot sound

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where your purpose for creation and the pulse of life are found.

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May our faith redeem the blunder of believing that our thought

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has displaced the grounds for wonder which the ancient prophets taught.

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May our learning curb the er-ror which unthinking faith can breed

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lest we justify some terror with an antiquated creed.

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As two currents in a river fight each other's undertow

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till converging they deliver one coherent steady flow,

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Blend, O God, our faith and learn-ing till they carve a single course,

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till they join as one, returning praise and thanks to you, their Source.