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God moves in a mysterious way, His wonders to perform.
He plants his footsteps in the sea, and rides upon the storm.
- William Cowper
Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too.
- William Cowper
Satan trembles when he sees the weakest saint upon their knees.
- William Cowper
The darkest day, if you live till tomorrow,
will have past away.
- William Cowper
God made the country, and man made the town.
- William Cowper
Absence from whom we love is worse than death,
and frustrates hope severer than despair.
- William Cowper
Variety's the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor.
- William Cowper
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Man may dismiss compassion from his heart,
but God never will.
- William Cowper
Where men of judgment creep and feel their way,
The positive pronounce without dismay.
- William Cowper
The parson knows enough who knows a Duke.
- William Cowper
The dogs did bark, the children screamed,
Up flew the windows all; And every soul bawled out,
Well done!
As loud as he could bawl.
- William Cowper
Remorse, the fatal egg that pleasure laid.
- William Cowper
It chills my blood to hear the blest Supreme Rudely
appealed to on each trifling theme.
- William Cowper
Knowledge is proud that it knows so much;
wisdom is humble that it knows no more.
- William Cowper
Absence of proof is not proof of absence.
- William Cowper
Wisdom is humble that he knows no more.
- William Cowper
A self-made man? Yes, and one who worships his creator.
- William Cowper
O, popular applause!
what heart of man is proof against thy sweet,
seducing charms?
- William Cowper
Reasoning at every step he treads, Man yet mistakes his way,
Whilst meaner things, whom instinct leads,
Are rarely known to stray.
- William Cowper
The innocent seldom find an uncomfortable pillow.
- William Cowper
No one was ever scolded out of their sins.
- William Cowper
An epigram is but a feeble thing - With straw in tail,
stuck there by way of sting.
- William Cowper
A fool must now and then be right, by chance.
- William Cowper
They whom truth and wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed.
- William Cowper
No wild enthusiast could rest, till half the world like him was possessed.
- William Cowper
Glory, built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt.
- William Cowper
Meditation here may think down hours to moments.
Here the heart may give a useful lesson to the head
and learning wiser grow without his books.
- William Cowper
The earth was made so various, that the mind Of desultory man,
studious of change, And pleased with novelty,
might be indulged.
- William Cowper
Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.
- William Cowper
Thus happiness depends, as nature shows,
less on exterior things than most suppose.
- William Cowper
How much a dunce that has been sent to roam,
excels a dunce that has been kept at home.
- William Cowper
Existence is a strange bargain.
Life owes us little; we owe it everything.
The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.
- William Cowper
No man can be a patriot on an empty stomach.
- William Cowper
Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth.
While truths, on which eternal things depend,
can hardly find a single friend.
- William Cowper
O solitude, where are the charms That sages have seen
in thy face? Better dwell in the midst of alarms,
Than reign in this horrible place.
- William Cowper
Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
- William Cowper
Every child comes with the message
that God is not yet discouraged of man.
- Rabindranath Tagore
God grant me the serenity
To accept the things I cannot change;
the courage to change the things I can;
and the wisdom to know the difference.
- Reinhold Niebuhr (Serenity Prayer)
Talent is God-given; be humble.
Fame is man-given; be thankful.
Conceit is self-given; be careful.
- John Wooden
You may call God love, you may call God goodness.
But the best name for God is compassion.
- Meister Eckhart
When the vast cathedral of our being
becomes a sanctuary for all creation,
we become the face of God.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Our "Rainbows and Butterflies" are the small miracles of our life -
the little things that are so easy to overlook,
yet so awe inspiring when we take a moment
to notice and to pay attention.
Give thanks for the rainbows, for the butterflies,
for all God's creatures - large and small,
for the bright blue sky and the soft fog and the gentle rain,
for the tree veiled in the season's first frost,
for the baby's laugh,
for the touch of a hand and the whispered "I love you."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The wise man in the storm prays God,
not for safety from danger,
but for deliverance from fear.
It is the storm within which endangers him,
not the storm without.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If anyone has material possessions and sees his brother in need
but has no pity on him, how can the love of God be in him?
- 1 John 3:17
Give thanks for the rainbows, for the butterflies,
for all God's creatures - large and small,
for the bright blue sky and the soft fog and the gentle rain,
for the tree veiled in the season's first frost,
for the baby's laugh, for the touch of a hand
and the whispered "I love you."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
To know God, watch a butterfly return to the same tree -
after a year and a thousand miles.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Start living now.
Stop saving the good china
for that special occasion.
Stop withholding your love
until that special person materializes.
Every day you are alive is a special occasion.
Every minute, every breath, is a gift from God.
- Mary Manin Morrissey
Mother is the name for God
in the lips and hearts of little children.
- William Makepeace Thackeray
From the solemn gloom of the temple
children run out to sit in the dust,
God watches them play and forgets the priest.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Faith is not the belief that God will do what you want.
It is the belief that God will do what is right.
- Max Lucado
Where there is unconditional love,
there is no room for unhappiness.
Whenever I look in the mirror today,
I will say to myself: "That Is The Face Of God."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
God doesn't require us to succeed;
He only requires that you try.
- Mother Teresa
We are most like God when we forgive.
- Anonymous
What you are is God's gift to you:
what you become is your gift to god.
- Anthony Dalla Villa
The function of prayer is not to influence God,
but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.
- Soren Kierkegaard
God is, even though the whole world deny him.
Truth stands, even if there be no public support.
It is self-sustained.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
I think wholeness is God's design for us;
and that often amounts to embracing contradictions.
- Bono
I distrust those people who know so well
what God wants them to do,
because I notice it always coincides
with their own desires.
- Susan B. Anthony
Take time to laugh.
It is the music of the soul.
Take time to think.
It is the source of power.
Take time to play.
It is the source of perpetual youth.
Take time to read.
It is the fountain of wisdom.
Take time to pray.
It is the greatest power on Earth.
Take time to love and be loved.
It is a God-given privilege.
Take time to be friendly.
It is the road to happiness.
Take time to give.
It is too short a day to be selfish.
Take time to work.
It is the price of success.
- Anonymous
A coincidence is a small miracle in which
God chooses to remain anonymous.
- Anonymous
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us.
We ask ourselves,
Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?
Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God.
Your playing small does not serve the world.
There is nothing enlightened about shrinking
so that other people won't feel insecure around you.
We are all meant to shine, as children do.
We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us.
It is not just in some of us; it is in everyone.
And as we let our own light shine,
we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.
As we are liberated from our own fear,
our presence automatically liberates others.
- Marianne Williamson
Know thyself, and thou shalt know the Universe and God.
- Pythagoras
Man plans, God laughs
- Yiddish Proverb
The Two Great Lessons of Life: Choose Love & Trust God.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When God closes a door, he opens a window.
- Anonymous
Work Hard. Do your best. Keep your word.
Never get too big for your britches.
Trust in God. Have no fear;
and Never forget a friend.
- Harry S. Truman
Where love is, there God is also.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Non-violence requires a double faith,
faith in God and also faith in man.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Prayer doesn't change God, but changes him who prays
- Soren Kierkegaard
If I am capable of grasping God objectively,
I do not believe, but precisely because
I cannot do this I must believe.
- Soren Kierkegaard
We should take care not to make the intellect our god;
it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.
- Albert Einstein
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