La música cristiana es de origen judío: la liturgia musical de la sinagoga, en particular el canto psalmódico de los judíos como unidad poética musical, fue un legado preciado transmitido del Israel antiguo al cristianismo primitivo, como forma de manifestar tanto a nivel personal como comunitario las creencias religiosas y la fe en Dios.
O Love that will not let me go
I rest my weary soul in thee
I give thee back the life I owe
That in thine ocean depths its flow may richer, fuller be
O Light that followest all my way
I yield my flickering torch to thee
My heart restores its borrowed ray
That in thine sunshine's blaze its day may brighter, fairer be
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O Love that will not let me go
O Love that will not let me go
O Love that will not let me go
O Joy that seeks me through my pain
I cannot close my heart to thee
I trace the rainbow thru the rain
And feel the promise is not in vain, morn shall tearless be
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O Cross that liftest up my head
I dare not ask to fly from thee
I lay in dust life's glory dead
Where from the ground there blossoms red;
Life shall endless be
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