How happy it is to believe, with a steadfast assurance, that our petitions are heard even while we are making them; and how delightful to meet with a proof of it in the effectual and actual grant of them.
WILLIAM COWPERTea – the cups that cheer but not inebriate.
More William Cowper Quotes
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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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An idler is a watch that wants both hands; As useless if it goes as when it stands.
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God made the country, and man made the town.
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Events of all sorts creep or fly exactly as God pleases.
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The proud are ever most provoked by pride.
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The bud may have a bitter taste, But sweet will be the flower.
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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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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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Far happier are the dead methinks than they who look for death and fear it every day.
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Some people are more nice than wise.
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Oh to have a lodge in some vast wilderness. Where rumors of oppression and deceit, of unsuccessful and successful wars may never reach me anymore.
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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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A heretic, my dear sir, is a fellow who disagrees with you regarding something neither of you knows anything about.
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Unless a love of virtue light the flame,
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…So let us welcome peaceful evening in.
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When nations are to perish in their sins, ’tis in the Church the leprosy begins.
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Remorse, the fatal egg by pleasure laid, In every bosom where her nest is made, Hatched by the beams of truth, denies him rest, And proves a raging scorpion in his breast.
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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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Would I describe a preacher, I would express him simple, grave, sincere; In doctrine uncorrupt; in language plain, And plain in manner; decent, solemn, chaste,
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While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.
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And works his sovereign will. Ye fearful saints fresh courage take, The clouds ye so much dread Are big with mercy, and shall break In blessings on your head.
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I seem forsaken and alone, / I hear the lion roar; / And every door is shut but one, / And that is Mercy’s door.
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The kindest and the happiest pair Will find occasion to forbear; And something, every day they live, To pity, and perhaps forgive.
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We 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.
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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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Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth.
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