Love (or God) works...

Posted by Paul G on October 11, 2000

In Reply to: Love (or God) works... posted by ESC on October 11, 2000

: : Does anyone know who the author was of the phrase: Love Works In Mysterious Ways?

: : Thanks for any help.

: I think the phrase is "God works in mysterious ways, His wonders to perform." But I couldn't find it in the Bible or Bartlett's.

It apparently comes from a well known hymn by William Cowper, 1774.

God moves in a mysterious way, His wonders to perform;
He plants His footsteps in the sea, And rides upon the storm.
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