![]() Olney Parish Church, stained-glass window, with words from God Moves in a Mysterious Way Entitled Conflict: Light Shining out of Darkness, it was accompanied by a text from Saint John's Gospel, Chapter 13: Verse 7, which quotes Jesus saying to his disciples "What I do thou knowest not now but thou shalt know hereafter." The hymn was later published in Olney Hymns which Cowper co-wrote with Newton. ![]() ![]() The text was first published by Cowper's friend, John Newton, in his Twenty-six Letters on Religious Subjects to which are added Hymns in 1774. Constituting six verses, they were written in 1773, just before the onset of a depressive illness, during which Cowper attempted suicide by drowning. The words were composed by William Cowper (1731–1800). John Newton published the poem the next year in his Twenty-six Letters on Religious Subjects to which are added Hymns (1774). It was written following his attempted suicide while living at Olney in Buckinghamshire. The poem was the last hymn text that Cowper wrote. ![]() ![]() It was written by Cowper in 1773 as a poem entitled "Light Shining out of Darkness". " God Moves in a Mysterious Way" is a Christian hymn, written in 1773 by William Cowper from England. ![]()
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