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.
WILLIAM COWPERJudge not the Lord by feeble sense, But trust Him for His grace; Behind a frowning providence He hides a smiling face. His purposes will ripen fast, Unfolding every hour;
More William Cowper Quotes
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There is in souls a sympathy with sounds: And as the mind is pitch’d the ear is pleased With melting airs, or martial, brisk or grave; Some chord in unison with what we hear Is touch’d within us, and the heart replies.
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Pleasure is labour too, and tires as much.
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After long drought when rains abundant fall, He hears the herbs and flowers rejoicing all.
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Heaven’s harmony is universal love.
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Still ending, and beginning still.
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…So let us welcome peaceful evening in.
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Pleasure admitted in undue degree, enslaves the will, nor leaves the judgment free.
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The path of sorrow, and that path alone, leads to the land where sorrow is unknown.
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No traveler e’er reached that blest abode who found not thorns and briers in his road.
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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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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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Some people are more nice than wise.
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We turn to dust, and all our mightiest works die too.
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Blest be the art that can immortalize,–the art that baffles time’s tyrannic claim to quench it.
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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.
WILLIAM COWPER