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?
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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The Spirit breathes upon the Word and brings the truth to sight.
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Blest be the art that can immortalize,–the art that baffles time’s tyrannic claim to quench it.
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The bud may have a bitter taste, But sweet will be the flower.
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I pity them greatly, but I must be mum, for how could we do without sugar and rum?
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But oars alone can ne’er prevail To reach the distant coast; The breath of Heaven must swell the sail, Or all the toil is lost.
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Still ending, and beginning still.
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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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Tis liberty alone that gives the flower Of fleeting life its lustre and perfume; And we are weeds without it.
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How sweet, how passing sweet, is solitude! But grant me still a friend in my retreat, whom I may whisper, solitude is sweet.
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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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Unless a love of virtue light the flame,
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Absence of occupation is not rest.
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I will pray, therefore, for blessings on my friends, even though they cease to be so, and upon my enemies, though they continue such.
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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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When nations are to perish in their sins, ’tis in the Church the leprosy begins.
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