33 quotes
English poet and hymnodist (1731–1800)
“God moves in a mysterious way, His wonders to perform. He plants his footsteps in the sea, and rides upon the storm.”
"God moves in a mysterious way His wonders to perform He plants his footsteps in the sea And rides upon the storm."
on Faith
"The cares of today are seldom those of tomorrow."
on Life
"If the world like it not, so much the worse for them."
on Wisdom
"Beware of desp'rate steps the darkest day lived till tomorrow will have pass'd away."
on Resilience
"The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose."
on Happiness
"Happiness depends as Nature shows Less on exterior things than most suppose."
"Grief is itself a med'cine."
"Knowledge is proud that it knows so much wisdom is humble that it knows no more."
"Variety's the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor."
"Remorse begets reform."
on Philosophy
"No traveler e'er reached that blest abode who found not thorns and briers in his road."
on Perseverance
"God moves in mysterious waysHis wonders to performs"
"Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God."
on Spirituality
"Such stuff the world is made of."
"Absence of occupation is not rest A mind quite vacant is a mind distress'd."
on Mental Health
"Variety's the very spice of life That gives it all its flavour."
"They whom truth and wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed."
on Truth
"How much a dunce that has been sent to roam Excels a dunce that has been kept at home!"
"We 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."
"A glory gilds the sacred page Majestic like the sun It gives a light to every age It gives but borrows none."
