All we behold is miracle.
WILLIAM COWPERPride made the devil, and the devil made sin; So God made a cole-pit to put the devil in.
More William Cowper Quotes
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Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.
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Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.
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The proud are ever most provoked by pride.
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Satan trembles when he sees the weakest saint upon their knees.
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Heaven’s harmony is universal love.
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God moves in mysterious ways His wonders to performs
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Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.
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While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.
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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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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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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 flower.
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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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Far happier are the dead methinks than they who look for death and fear it every day.
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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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