Trials make the promise sweet, Trials give new life to prayer; Trials bring me to His feet, Lay me low, and keep me there.
WILLIAM COWPER
WILLIAM COWPER
William Cowper on feet
William Cowper138 quotes“Trials make the promise sweet, Trials give new life to prayer; Trials bring me to His feet, Lay me low, and keep me there.”
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The still small voice is wanted.
William CowperWilliam Cowper The cares of today are seldom those of tomorrow, and when we lie down at night we may safely say to most of our troubles, “Ye have done your worst, and we shall see you no more.”
William CowperWilliam Cowper The kindest and the happiest pair Will find occasion to forbear; And something, every day they live, To pity, and perhaps forgive.
William CowperWilliam Cowper O solitude, where are the charms That sages have seen in thy face? Better dwell in the midst of alarms, Than reign in this horrible place.
William CowperWilliam Cowper Happy the man who sees a God employed in all the good and ills that checker life.
William CowperWilliam Cowper 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
William CowperWilliam Cowper Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.
William CowperWilliam Cowper Some people are more nice than wise.
William CowperWilliam Cowper Absence of occupation is not rest.
William CowperWilliam Cowper Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
William CowperWilliam Cowper What is there in the vale of lifeHalf so delightful as a wife;When friendship, love and peace combineTo stamp the marriage-bond divine?
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William CowperWilliam Cowper 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 CowperWilliam Cowper …So let us welcome peaceful evening in.
William CowperWilliam Cowper Judge not the Lord by feeble sense, But trust him for his grace; Behind a frowning providence He hides a smiling face.
William CowperWilliam Cowper It chills my blood to hear the blest Supreme Rudely appealed to on each trifling theme.
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A giant vulture with a girl hanging from its feet tends to attract attention.
Rick RiordanRick Riordan But this night our feet must tread in thorny paths, or later, and for ever, the feet you love must walk in paths of flame!
Bram StokerBram Stoker If a hundred-foot oak tree had the mind of a human, it would only grow to be ten feet tall!
T. Harv EkerT. Harv Eker My feet ain’t got nothing to do with my nickname, but when folks get it in their heads that a feller’s got big feet, soon the feet start looking big.
Satchel PaigeSatchel Paige Because I’m small, I’ve been called things from ‘Happy Feet’ to ‘Little Face.’
Kevin HartKevin Hart A lumberman will look at a forest and see so many board feet of lumber. I see a living city.
Sylvia EarleSylvia Earle The earth’s crust has not yet stopped heaving and plunging under our feet. Mountain ranges are still being thrust up on the horizon. Granites are still growing under the continental masses. Nor has the organic world ceased to produce new buds at the tips of its countless branches.
Pierre Teilhard de ChardinPierre Teilhard de Chardin I definitely take time to smell the flowers because I feel like my upbringing was quite a bit different than most guys on Tour.
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