God moves in mysterious ways His wonders to performs
WILLIAM COWPERThe bird that flutters least is longest on the wing.
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God moves in a mysterious way, His wonders to perform. He plants his footsteps in the sea, and rides upon the storm.
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Alas! if my best Friend, who laid down His life for me, were to remember all the instances in which I have neglected Him, and to plead them against me in judgment, where should I hide my guilty head in the day of recompense?
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Spring hangs her infant blossoms on the trees, Rock’d in the cradle of the western breeze.
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To impute our recovery to medicine, and to carry our view no further, is to rob God of His honor, and is saying in effect that He has parted with the keys of life and death, and, by giving to a drug the power to heal us, has placed our lives out of His own reach.
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Maintains its hold with such unfailing sway, We feel it e’en in age, and at our latest day.
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When nations are to perish in their sins, ’tis in the Church the leprosy begins.
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While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.
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Trials make the promise sweet, Trials give new life to prayer; Trials bring me to His feet, Lay me low, and keep me there.
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Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more.
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Happy the man who sees a God employed in all the good and ills that checker life.
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Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
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I am out of humanity’s reach.I must finish my journey alone,Never hear the sweet music of speech;I start at the sound of my own.
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After long drought when rains abundant fall, He hears the herbs and flowers rejoicing all.
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Judge not the Lord by feeble sense, But trust him for his grace; Behind a frowning providence He hides a smiling face.
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The only amaranthine flower on earth is virtue; the only lasting treasure, truth.
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