The Cross! There, and there only (though the deist rave, and the atheist, if Earth bears so base a slave); There and there only, is the power to save.
WILLIAM COWPERWe are never more in danger than when we think ourselves most secure, nor in reality more secure than when we seem to be most in danger.
More William Cowper Quotes
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O Winter, ruler of the inverted year!
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Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.
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Events of all sorts creep or fly exactly as God pleases.
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An idler is a watch that wants both hands; As useless if it goes as when it stands.
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Restraining prayer, we cease to fight; Prayer keeps the Christian’s armor bright; And Satan trembles when he sees The weakest saint upon his knees.
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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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Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will.
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Far happier are the dead methinks than they who look for death and fear it every day.
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It chills my blood to hear the blest Supreme Rudely appealed to on each trifling theme.
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Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa around, And while the bubbling and loud-hissing urn
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But oars alone can ne’er prevail To reach the distant coast; The breath of Heaven must swell the sail, Or all the toil is lost.
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What we admire we praise; and when we praise, Advance it into notice, that its worth Acknowledged, others may admire it too.
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Satire is, more than those he brands, to blame; He hides behind a magisterial air He own offences, and strips others’ bare.
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Time, as he passes us, has a dove’s wing, Unsoil’d, and swift, and of a silken sound.
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In a fleshly tomb, I am buried above ground.
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