The Spirit breathes upon the Word and brings the truth to sight.
WILLIAM COWPERWhat is there in the vale of lifeHalf so delightful as a wife;When friendship, love and peace combineTo stamp the marriage-bond divine?
More William Cowper Quotes
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Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one, Have oft-times no connection.
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We are never more in danger than when we think ourselves most secure, nor in reality more secure than when we seem to be most in danger.
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Trials make the promise sweet, Trials give new life to prayer; Trials bring me to His feet, Lay me low, and keep me there.
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Pride made the devil, and the devil made sin; So God made a cole-pit to put the devil in.
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Maintains its hold with such unfailing sway, We feel it e’en in age, and at our latest day.
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The still small voice is wanted.
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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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The bird that flutters least is longest on the wing.
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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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Books are not seldom talismans and spells.
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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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Manner is all in all, whate’er is writ,The substitute for genius, sense, and wit.
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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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Happy the man who sees a God employed in all the good and ills that checker life.
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Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
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