The phrase "ambition" resonates through 15 hymns, touching hearts across generations.
ambition
...My aspirations, hopes, desires,
Ambitions, dreams and plans.
My will, O let it lie...
My aspirations, hopes, desires,
Ambitions, dreams and plans.
My will, O let it lie
...Pray to labor with the Lord;
Self-ambition and self-will
We must ever cast away,...
Pray to labor with the Lord;
Self-ambition and self-will
We must ever cast away,
...Pray to labor with the Lord;
Self-ambition and self-will
We must ever cast away,...
Pray to labor with the Lord;
Self-ambition and self-will
We must ever cast away,
...In study and work,
Save me from self-ambition.
Peer pressure,...
In study and work,
Save me from self-ambition.
Peer pressure,
...Freedom from envy, hatred and strife;
Freedom from vain and worldly ambitions.
Freedom from all that saddened my life....
Freedom from envy, hatred and strife;
Freedom from vain and worldly ambitions.
Freedom from all that saddened my life.
...Yet lose Your presence, Lord, so dear?
If I’m by pride, ambition, lost,
Then, Lord, expose me at all cost....
Yet lose Your presence, Lord, so dear?
If I’m by pride, ambition, lost,
Then, Lord, expose me at all cost.
...All hidden things that block my vision,
Rocks of self-ambition, pride;
Now expose and burn away, Lord...
All hidden things that block my vision,
Rocks of self-ambition, pride;
Now expose and burn away, Lord
...Let the world have its honors,
Ambitions and fame,
In the Lamb’s Book of Life...
Let the world have its honors,
Ambitions and fame,
In the Lamb’s Book of Life
...Thou, from hence, my all shalt be.
Perish every fond ambition,
All I’ve sought, and hoped, and known;...
Thou, from hence, my all shalt be.
Perish every fond ambition,
All I’ve sought, and hoped, and known;
...Thou, from hence, my all shalt be.
Perish every fond ambition,
All I’ve sought, and hoped, and known;...
Thou, from hence, my all shalt be.
Perish every fond ambition,
All I’ve sought, and hoped, and known;
...I’ll waste apart from You.
Ambition shall no longer keep,
Unyielding grip on me....
I’ll waste apart from You.
Ambition shall no longer keep,
Unyielding grip on me.
...One in the Triune God!
Concepts, opinions, and ambitions rife
Aren’t in the Triune God....
One in the Triune God!
Concepts, opinions, and ambitions rife
Aren’t in the Triune God.
...What else can me restrain?
My dear ones, wealth ambition, fame—
What can they offer me?...
What else can me restrain?
My dear ones, wealth ambition, fame—
What can they offer me?
...With emulation’s specious name.
Ambition in his breast
Shall never, never glow;...
With emulation’s specious name.
Ambition in his breast
Shall never, never glow;
...Let neither worldly gain nor lust,
Ambition, pride, nor golden dust
Longer enslave thy passions;...
Let neither worldly gain nor lust,
Ambition, pride, nor golden dust
Longer enslave thy passions;
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