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.
WILLIAM COWPERMan may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will.
More William Cowper Quotes
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Truth is the golden girdle of the globe.
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Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.
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All we behold is miracle.
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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.
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God moves in mysterious ways His wonders to performs
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How happy it is to believe, with a steadfast assurance, that our petitions are heard even while we are making them; and how delightful to meet with a proof of it in the effectual and actual grant of them.
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Pleasure is labour too, and tires as much.
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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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Skins may differ, but affection Dwells in white and black the same.
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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.
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The proud are ever most provoked by pride.
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Remorse, the fatal egg by pleasure laid, In every bosom where her nest is made, Hatched by the beams of truth, denies him rest, And proves a raging scorpion in his breast.
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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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Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.
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