15 William Cowper Quotes

Knowledge is proud that she knows so much; wisdom is humble that she knows no more.

The proud are ever most provoked by pride.

Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will.

Great offices will have great talents, and God gives to every man the virtue, temper, understanding, taste, that lifts him into life, and lets him fall just in the niche he was ordained to fill.

There is no grace that the spirit of self can counterfeit with more success than a religious zeal.

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.

The tear that is wiped with a little address may be followed, perhaps, by a smile.

Events of all sorts creep or fly exactly as God pleases.

The Spirit breathes upon the Word and brings the truth to sight.

Happy the man who sees a God employed in all the good and ills that checker life.

And what else is the cause of all transgression, but that man's ignorant pride will have his will preferred to the will of God.

Their blood is shed in confirmation of the noblest claim - the claim to feed upon immortal truth, to walk with God, and be divinely free.

Satan trembles when he sees the weakest saint upon their knees.

Vice stings us even in our pleasures, but virtue consoles us even in our pains.

Nature is but a name for an effect, whose cause is God.