God moves in mysterious ways His wonders to performs
WILLIAM COWPERThis fond attachment to the well-known place Whence first we started into life’s long race.
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All we behold is miracle.
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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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The still small voice is wanted.
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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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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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Heaven’s harmony is universal love.
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Satan trembles when he sees the weakest saint upon their knees.
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Glory, built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt.
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Men deal with life as children with their play, Who first misuse, then cast their toys away.
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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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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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Vice stings us even in our pleasures, but virtue consoles us even in our pains.
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Ye fearful saints fresh courage take, The clouds you so much dread Are big with mercy and shall break, With blessings on your head
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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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Accomplishments have taken virtue’s place, and wisdom falls before exterior grace.
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