The Spirit breathes upon the Word and brings the truth to sight.
WILLIAM COWPERWould I describe a preacher, I would express him simple, grave, sincere; In doctrine uncorrupt; in language plain, And plain in manner; decent, solemn, chaste,
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Solitude, seeming a sanctuary, proves a grave; a sepulchre in which the living lie, where all good qualities grow sick and die
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Glory, built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt.
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Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men; Wisdom in minds attentive to their own.
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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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A fretful temper will divide the closest knot that may be tied, by ceaseless sharp corrosion; a temper passionate and fierce may suddenly your joys disperse at one immense explosion.
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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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The still small voice is wanted.
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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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Habits are soon assumed; but when we strive to strip them off, ’tis being flayed alive.
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The only amaranthine flower on earth is virtue; the only lasting treasure, truth.
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There is a pleasure in poetic pains / Which only poets know.
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There is in souls a sympathy with sounds.
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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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God made bees, and bees made honey, God made man, and man made money,
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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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