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 COWPERRestraining prayer, we cease to fight; Prayer keeps the Christian’s armor bright; And Satan trembles when he sees The weakest saint upon his knees.
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Events of all sorts creep or fly exactly as God pleases.
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Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will.
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A self-made man? Yes, and one who worships his creator.
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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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An idler is a watch that wants both hands; As useless if it goes as when it stands.
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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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Happy the man who sees a God employed in all the good and ills that checker life.
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The path of sorrow, and that path alone, leads to the land where sorrow is unknown.
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Satan trembles when he sees the weakest saint upon their knees.
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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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Judge not the Lord by feeble sense, But trust him for his grace; Behind a frowning providence He hides a smiling face.
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The man to solitude accustom’d long, Perceives in everything that lives a tongue; Not animals alone, but shrubs and trees Have speech for him, and understood with ease,
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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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The darkest day, if you live till tomorrow, will have passed away.
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Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more.
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