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.
WILLIAM COWPERTo 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.
More William Cowper Quotes
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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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Elegant as simplicity, and warm As ecstasy.
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Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more.
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The darkest day, if you live till tomorrow, will have passed away.
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But still remember, if you mean to please, To press your point with modesty and ease.
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The bud may have a bitter taste, But sweet will be the flow’r. 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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Spring hangs her infant blossoms on the trees, Rock’d in the cradle of the western breeze.
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After long drought when rains abundant fall, He hears the herbs and flowers rejoicing all.
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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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The innocent seldom find an uncomfortable pillow.
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Habits are soon assumed; but when we strive to strip them off, ’tis being flayed alive.
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I am out of humanity’s reach.I must finish my journey alone,Never hear the sweet music of speech;I start at the sound of my own.
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When nations are to perish in their sins, ’tis in the Church the leprosy begins.
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England with all thy faults, I love thee still– My country! and, while yet a nook is left Where English minds and manners may be found, Shall be constrained to love thee.
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Built God a church and laughed His word to scorn.
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