--- title: "Meaning & Key Takeaway of: We wish we knew how to do something for…" description: "\"“We wish we knew how to do something for Thee. We pray that we may be helped to do so ere we die; yea, that every flying hour may confess that we have ..." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e67/b-aguilera-33593_life_we-wish-we-knew-how-to-do-something-for_2966715.jpg" --- # We wish we knew how to do something for Thee. We pray that… ![“We wish we knew how to do something for Thee. We pray that we may be helped to do so ere we die; yea, that every flying hour may confess that we have brought Thy Gospel some renown; that we may so live as to extend the Redeemer's kingdom at least in some little measure; that ours may not be a…” quote by B Aguilera](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e67/b-aguilera-33593_life_we-wish-we-knew-how-to-do-something-for_2966715.jpg) [Download](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e67/b-aguilera-33593_life_we-wish-we-knew-how-to-do-something-for_2966715.jpg) [Open image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e67/b-aguilera-33593_life_we-wish-we-knew-how-to-do-something-for_2966715.jpg) > ““We wish we knew how to do something for Thee. We pray that we may be helped to do so ere we die; yea, that every flying hour may confess that we have brought Thy Gospel some renown; that we may so live as to extend the Redeemer's kingdom at least in some little measure; that ours may not be a fruitless, wasted life that no faculty of ours may lay by and rust; but to the utmost of our capacity may we be helped of the Divine Spirit to spend our whole life in real adoration. We know that he prays that serves, he praises that gives, he adores that obeys, and the life is the best music. Oh! set it to good music, we pray Thee, and help us all through to keep to each note, and may there be no false note in all the singing of our life, but all be according to that sacred score which is written out so fully in the life music of our Lord.”” [B Aguilera](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/b-aguilera/) ## About This Quote This interpretation was drafted with AI assistance. It is one reading of the quote, not the author's own explanation. 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