God moves in a mysterious way, His wonders to perform. He plants his footsteps in the sea, and rides upon the storm.
WILLIAM COWPERJudge not the Lord by feeble sense, But trust him for his grace; Behind a frowning providence He hides a smiling face.
More William Cowper Quotes
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And the tear that is wiped with a little address, May be follow’d perhaps by a smile.
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Vice stings us even in our pleasures, but virtue consoles us even in our pains.
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And natural in gesture; much impress’d Himself, as conscious of his awful charge, And anxious mainly that the flock he feeds May feel it too; affectionate in look, And tender in address, as well becomes A messenger of grace to guilty men.
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This fond attachment to the well-known place Whence first we started into life’s long race.
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Absence of proof is not proof of absence.
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Remorse begets reform.
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Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.
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Satire is, more than those he brands, to blame; He hides behind a magisterial air He own offences, and strips others’ bare.
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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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Time, as he passes us, has a dove’s wing, Unsoil’d, and swift, and of a silken sound.
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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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Deep in unfathomable mines Of never failing skill He treasures up his bright designs,
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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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Built God a church and laughed His word to scorn.
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There is in souls a sympathy with sounds.
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