William Cowper Quotes About Mercy

Quotes about: Mercy

• God moves in a mysterious way His wonders to perform; He plants his footsteps in the sea, And rides upon the storm. Deep in unfathomable mines Of never failing skill He treasures up his bright designs, And works his sovereign will. Ye fearful saints fresh courage take, The clouds ye so much dread Are big with mercy, and shall break In blessings on your head. Judge not the Lord by feeble sense, But trust him for his grace; Behind a frowning providence He hides a smiling face.

  William Cowper

  Courage, Failure, Moving

  Olney Hymns "Light Shining Out of Darkness" l. 1 (1779)

• Ye therefore who love mercy, teach your sons to love it, too.

  William Cowper

  Love, Son, Mercy

  William Cowper (1854). “The Poetical Works of William Cowper”, p.143

• Ye fearful saints fresh courage take, The clouds you so much dread Are big with mercy and shall break, With blessings on your head

  William Cowper

  Blessing, Clouds, Saint

  William Cowper, “Light Shining Out Of Darkness”

• Mercy to him that shows it, is the rule.

  William Cowper

  Headstone, Mercy, Shows

  William Cowper, Henry Stebbing (1869). “The Complete Poetical Works of William Cowper, Esq: Including the Hymns and Translations from Madame Guion, Milton, Etc. ; with a Memoir of the Author”, p.287

• He that negotiates between God and man, As God's ambassador, the grand concerns Of judgment and of mercy, should beware Of lightness in his speech.

  William Cowper

  Men, Speech, Ambassadors

  William Cowper (1855). “The complete poetical works of William Cowper, with life and critical notice of his writings”, p.141

• I seem forsaken and alone, / I hear the lion roar; / And every door is shut but one, / And that is Mercy's door.

  William Cowper

  Loneliness, Doors, Lions

  William Cowper (1874). “The poetical works of William Cowper, ed: with notes and biographical introd. by William Benham”, p.33

• There is mercy in every place. And mercy, encouraging thought gives even affliction a grace and reconciles man to his lot.

  William Cowper

  Men, Giving, Grace

  William Cowper, James Thomson (1832). “The Works of Cowper and Thompson: Including Many Letters and Poems Never Before Published in this Country. With a New and Interesting Memoir of the Life of Thomson”, p.114

• God never meant that man should scale the Heavens
  By strides of human wisdom. In his works,
  Though wondrous, he commands us in his word
  To seek him rather where his mercy shines.

  William Cowper

  God, Men, Shining

  William Cowper (1855). “The complete poetical works of William Cowper, with life and critical notice of his writings”, p.152

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