To 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.
WILLIAM COWPERNo traveler e’er reached that blest abode who found not thorns and briers in his road.
More William Cowper Quotes
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Some people are more nice than wise.
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Ye therefore who love mercy, teach your sons to love it, too.
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The path of sorrow, and that path alone, leads to the land where sorrow is unknown.
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The innocent seldom find an uncomfortable pillow.
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After long drought when rains abundant fall, He hears the herbs and flowers rejoicing all.
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The kindest and the happiest pair Will find occasion to forbear; And something, every day they live, To pity, and perhaps forgive.
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God made the country, and man made the town.
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The nurse sleeps sweetly, hired to watch the sick, / whom, snoring, she disturbs.
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Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will.
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What peaceful hours I once enjoy’d! How sweet their memory still! But they have left an aching void The world can never fill.
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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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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.
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There is a pleasure in poetic pains / Which only poets know.
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God moves in a mysterious way His wonders to perform; He plants his footsteps in the sea, And rides upon the storm.
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Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one, Have oft-times no connection.
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