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 COWPERWe 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.
More William Cowper Quotes
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Oh to have a lodge in some vast wilderness. Where rumors of oppression and deceit, of unsuccessful and successful wars may never reach me anymore.
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No man can be a patriot on an empty stomach.
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Remorse, the fatal egg that pleasure laid.
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Events of all sorts creep or fly exactly as God pleases.
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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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Spring hangs her infant blossoms on the trees, Rock’d in the cradle of the western breeze.
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Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men; Wisdom in minds attentive to their own.
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Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.
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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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A self-made man? Yes, and one who worships his creator.
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Nor rural sights alone, but rural sounds, Exhilirate the spirit, and restore The tone of languid nature.
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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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Satan trembles when he sees the weakest saint upon their knees.
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In a fleshly tomb, I am buried above ground.
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Would I describe a preacher, I would express him simple, grave, sincere; In doctrine uncorrupt; in language plain, And plain in manner; decent, solemn, chaste,
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