1  Oh, what a life! Oh, what a peace!

    The Christ who's all within me lives.

    With Him I have been crucified;

    This glorious fact to me He gives.

    Now it's no longer I that live,

    But Christ the Lord within me lives.

 2  Oh, what a joy! Oh, what a rest!

    Christ now is being formed in me.

    His very nature and life divine

    In my whole being inwrought shall be.

    All that I am came to an end,

    And all of Christ is all to me.

 3  Oh, what a thought! Oh, what a boast!

    Christ shall in me be magnified.

    In nothing shall I be ashamed,

    For He in all shall be applied.

    In woe or blessing, death or life,

    Through me shall Christ be testified.

 4  Oh, what a prize! Oh, what a gain!

    Christ is the goal toward which I press.

    Nothing I treasure, nor aught desire,

    But Christ of all-inclusiveness.

    My hope, my glory, and my crown

    Is Christ, the One of peerlessness.