Nothing Can Be Greater

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Nothing can be greater than a heart made right

Author: Haldor Lillenas
Tune: [Nothing can be greater than a heart made right]
Published in 3 hymnals

Audio files: MIDI

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1 Nothing can be greater than a heart made right,
And with love divine aglow,
Living in the sunlight, shining clear and bright,
Whiter than the whitest snow.

Refrain:
Nothing can be greater than a heart made right,
Nothing can be purer than a soul made white;
To serve the Lord and King is the most import thing,
And nothing can be greater than a heart made right.

2 Nothing can be greater than a heart made right,
One that is from sin set free,
Nothing makes you bolder in the thickest fight,
Nothing can more glorious be. [Refrain]

3 Nothing can be greater than a heart made right,
Earthly things will pass away,
Worldly fame and riches soon will take their flight,
But your soul will live for aye. [Refrain]

Source: The King of Glory #60

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Author: Haldor Lillenas

Rv Haldor Lillenas DMus Norway/USA 1885-1959. Born at Stord, near Bergen, Norway, his father sold their 15 acre farm in Norway and emigrated to the U.S., buying a farm in Colton, SD. After he built a sod house, the family (wife and three chldren) also came to SD in 1887. They moved to Astoria, Oregon in 1889, where Lillenas learned English and began writing song lyrics at an early age. In 1900 the family moved again to Roseville, MN, where he worked as a farm laborer and began attending a Lutheran high school at Hawick, MN. He sold a few songs at age 19. At age 21 he began writing more songs, encouraged by some earlier ones becoming popular (“He set me free” was one). His mother died in 1906 and his father returned to ND, but Li… Go to person page >

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Text Information

First Line:	Nothing can be greater than a heart made right
Title:	Nothing Can Be Greater
Author:	Haldor Lillenas
Language:	English
Refrain First Line:	Nothing can be greater than a heart made right
Copyright:	Public Domain