Lord, teach us how to pray aright
with reverence and with fear;
Though dust and ashes in Thy sight,
We may, we must draw near.
God of all grace, we bring to Thee
A broken, contrite heart;
Give, what Thine eye delights to see,
Truth in the inward part.
Faith is the only sacrifice
That can for sin atone;
To cast our hopes, to fix our eyes,
On Christ, on Christ alone.
Give these, and then Thy will be done,
Thus strengthened with all might,
We, through Thy Spirit and Thy Son
Shall pray, and pray aright.
~James Montgomery