Remorse begets reform.
WILLIAM COWPERBuilt God a church and laughed His word to scorn.
More William Cowper Quotes
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Built God a church and laughed His word to scorn.
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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.
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There is mercy in every place. And mercy, encouraging thought gives even affliction a grace and reconciles man to his lot.
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Glory, built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt.
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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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Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.
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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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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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All we behold is miracle.
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Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.
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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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Variety’s the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor.
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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.
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Sends Nature forth the daughter of the skies… To dance on earth, and charm all human eyes.
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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.
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