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.
WILLIAM COWPERThe cares of today are seldom those of tomorrow, and when we lie down at night we may safely say to most of our troubles, “Ye have done your worst, and we shall see you no more.”
More William Cowper Quotes
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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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Events of all sorts creep or fly exactly as God pleases.
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Men deal with life as children with their play, Who first misuse, then cast their toys away.
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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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He finds his fellow guilty of a skin Not color’d like his own, and having pow’r T’ enforce the wrong, for such a worthy cause Dooms and devotes him as his lawful prey.
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The bud may have a bitter taste, But sweet will be the flow’r. Blind unbelief is sure to err And scan His work in vain; God is His own interpreter, And He will make it plain.
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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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He that has seen both sides of fifty has lived to little purpose if he has no other views of the world than he had when he was much younger.
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They whom truth and wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed.
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Unless a love of virtue light the flame,
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Throws up a steamy column, and the cups That cheer but not inebriate, wait on each, So let us welcome peaceful evening in
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The nurse sleeps sweetly, hired to watch the sick, / whom, snoring, she disturbs.
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The still small voice is wanted.
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The man to solitude accustom’d long, Perceives in everything that lives a tongue; Not animals alone, but shrubs and trees Have speech for him, and understood with ease,
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God moves in mysterious ways His wonders to performs
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