Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will.
– William Cowper
Compassion | The Heart
Knowledge is proud that she knows so much; wisdom is humble that she knows no more.
– William Cowper
Knowledge
The proud are ever most provoked by pride.
– William Cowper
Pride
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.
– William Cowper
Obedience | Contentment
There is no grace that the spirit of self can counterfeit with more success than a religious zeal.
– William Cowper
Hypocrisy | 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.
– William Cowper
Prayer | Assurance
The tear that is wiped with a little address may be followed, perhaps, by a smile.
– William Cowper
Encouragement
Events of all sorts creep or fly exactly as God pleases.
– William Cowper
God
The Spirit breathes upon the Word and brings the truth to sight.
– William Cowper
The Holy Spirit | Truth
Happy the man who sees a God employed in all the good and ills that checker life.
– William Cowper
Happiness
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.
– William Cowper
Pride
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.
– William Cowper
Obedience | Freedom
Satan trembles when he sees the weakest saint upon their knees.
– William Cowper
Prayer
Vice stings us even in our pleasures, but virtue consoles us even in our pains.
– William Cowper
Virtue
Nature is but a name for an effect, whose cause is God.
– William Cowper
God | Nature