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?
WILLIAM COWPERWhen nations are to perish in their sins, ’tis in the Church the leprosy begins.
More William Cowper Quotes
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Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.
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Books are not seldom talismans and spells.
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Absence of occupation is not rest.
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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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A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.
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Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men; Wisdom in minds attentive to their own.
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All we behold is miracle.
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Satan trembles when he sees the weakest saint upon their knees.
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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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Maintains its hold with such unfailing sway, We feel it e’en in age, and at our latest day.
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Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
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God made bees, and bees made honey, God made man, and man made money,
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Blind unbelief is sure to err, And scan his work in vain; God is his own interpreter, And he will make it plain.
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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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The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.
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