Prompte et sincere

O Father, fix mine eyes above;
Avert my gaze from earthly toys,
And teach me in Thy perfect love
To find the source of all my joys.

Let my desire on Thee be fixed
To glory in no will but Thine,
My joy, to do it all unmixed
With workings wrought of my design.

Let me esteem the throes of death
As better far than Thine offense
And labour with my dying breath
To please my Lord, my confidence.

O Father, glory be to Thee,
And blessed Son, and Holy Ghost;
And in my being, let it be
That Thou art glorified the most.

—6/13/12

Cor meum tibi offero domine prompte et sincere. ("My heart I offer thee, Lord, promptly and sincerely.") —John Calvin, personal motto

"True piety consists in a sincere feeling which loves God as Father as much as it fears and reverences Him as Lord, embraces His righteousness, and dreads offending Him worse than death." —John Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion