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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

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God moves in a mysterious way, His wonders to perform. He plants his footsteps in the sea, and rides...
WILLIAM COWPER God moves in mysterious ways
His wonders to performs
WILLIAM COWPER God moves in a mysterious way
His wonders to perform;
He plants His footsteps in the ...
WILLIAM COWPER We begin to fight. The wind and I. Horns locked. Battling each other with elements.
LAURA DOCKRILL And pleas'd th' Almighty's orders to perform, Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm.
JOSEPH ADDISON "God works in many ways His wonders to perform." But He's not a skillful mechanic. A man drived ov...
PAUL GOODMAN God touches and moves, warns and desires all equally, and He wants one quite as much as another. The...
JOHANNES TAULER Ought we not to look upon our own history as being at least as full of God, as full of His goodness ...
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON We speak of waves in a storm as "sea horses." Like wild horses, impetuous and irresistible, a man ca...
JOHN LAYARD I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES How he had wrought his signs in Egypt, and his wonders in the field of Zoan.
BIBLE Love is a growing, or full constant light,
And his first minute, after noon, is night.
JOHN DONNE I sort of followed in his footsteps out to Hollywood, and aspired in the way he did. I was wonderful...
CAMERON WATSON Man is a creature who walks in two worlds and traces upon the walls of his cave the wonders and the ...
MORRIS WEST He's a ham. He could follow in his sister's footsteps.
LINDA HANNA He followed in his father's footsteps, but his gait was somewhat erratic.
NICOLAS BENTLEY Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm.
JOSEPH ADDISON Rides in the whirlwind, and directs the storm.
JOSEPH ADDISON They that go down to the sea in ships, that do business in great waters: These see the works of t...
BIBLE They that go down to the sea in ships, that do business in great waters; These see the works of the ...
BIBLE We can leave a place behind, or we can stay in that place and leave our selfishness (often expressed...
JOHN H. GROBERG He who does not know his way to the sea should take a river for his guide.
BLAISE PASCAL She was intimidating and all I could do was sit back on the couch as she paced back and forth, slowl...
IN THE MAKING Now is the only time we have, and the only time that we have any control over.
RICHARD CARLSON God is not impressed with what PRECEDES your name, but how you PROCEED in His Name."
BJ NELSON Those who worry stumble long The Way.
Those who pray have no time to stray.
ERROL ANTHONY SMYTHE You're full of contradictions, Ms. Wallace."
I looked up at him and arched a brow. "I'm a girl...
TAMMARA WEBBER The only way he could have her was to shatter this stubborn faith of hers. In doing so, would he sha...
FRANCINE RIVERS How did you get in?"

"I move in mysterious ways."

"God moves in mysterious w...
BECCA FITZPATRICK No dissenter rides in his coach for three generations; he infallibly falls into the Establishment
RALPH WALDO EMERSON I believe God did intend, in giving us intelligence, to give us the opportunity to investigate and a...
FRANCIS COLLINS You are also caught with the fact that man is a creature who walks in two worlds and traces upon the...
MORRIS WEST The Bible is God's chart for you to steer by, to keep you from the bottom of the sea, and to show yo...
HENRY WARD BEECHER Like a long-legged fly upon the stream His mind moves among silence
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS If I provide for this life and turn away from the Lord, I am wise for a moment, but lost forever.
FRANCINE RIVERS The only way he could have her was to shatter this stubborn faith of hers. In doing so, would he sha...
FRANCINE RIVERS Yes, our Father has a plan, Ciminae,” he said. “But he leaves it up to his children to accept hi...
SHAUN MESSICK You know, God has a plan for me, and I'm going to follow in his footsteps and just rejoice and b...
GABBY DOUGLAS He like a rock in the sea unshaken stands his ground.
VIRGIL He like a rock in the sea unshaken stands his ground.
DAVID TUVILL The individual who can do something that the world wants done will, in the end, make his way regardl...
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON “A game of chess with God is like, he makes the next move after yours. Your moves are termed “Ch...
LILY CHATTERJEE The ultimate triumph of philosophy would be to cast light upon the mysterious ways in which Providen...
MARQUIS DE SADE And he declared unto you his covenant, which he commanded you to perform, even ten commandments; and...
BIBLE Now is the only time we have, and the only time we have any control over.
RICHARD CARLSON Use your heart. Understand. Learn to see things
in the now, not as they were or will be, or as ...
E.J. PATTEN Whatever man may stand, whatever he may do, to whatever he may apply his hand - in agriculture, in c...
ABRAHAM KUYPER That William Blake
Who beat upon the wall
Till Truth obeyed his call.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Not every father gets a chance to start his son off in his own footsteps.
ALAN LADD He is a great artist. He may be the finest artist among American writers since William Faulkner and ...
HAROLD BLOOM He is opening his eyes. He has purposeful movements. He responds to his family in slight ways. He mo...
DR. JULIAN BAILES Methought I say the footsteps of a throne. - William Wordsworth,
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Alone within the vast tribunal that is the stormy sky, the pilot is in contention for his mailbags w...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY I'm kind of following in his footsteps.
DAN KELSO He uses his sources as a drunkard uses lampposts; not to light him upon his way, but to dissimulate ...
HENRY LOUIS MENCKEN Control the manner in which a man interprets his world, and you have gone a long way toward controll...
STANLEY MILGRAM Sink the Bible to the bottom of the sea, and man's obligation to God would be unchanged. He would ha...
HENRY WARD BEECHER [Karl Barth, the 20th-century theologian who pounded home the theme of God's sovereignty, saw no con...
KARL BARTH In the beginning, there was nothing and from nothing came our species then behold the dawn of music....
GARY F EVANS... And so castles made of sand fall in the sea, eventually.
JIMI HENDRIX Yon Sun that sets upon the sea We follow in his flight; Farewell awhile to him and thee, ...
LORD BYRON (GEORGE GORDON NOEL BYRON) Mercy is what moves us toward God, while justice makes us tremble in his sight.
POPE BENEDICT XVI When Mr. William Faraday sat down to write his memoirs after fifty-eight years of blameless inactivi...
MARGERY ALLINGHAM Through all this world strode Vishnu:
thrice his foot he planted,
and the whole world was ...
VEDA And David put his hand in his bag, and took thence a stone, and slang it, and smote the Philistine i...
BIBLE He who comes up to his own idea of greatness, must always have had a very low standard of it in his...
WILLIAM HAZLITT Write to Say something,
Say to Make something,
Make to Be something.
SHASHIDHAR SA Men will allow God to be everywhere but on his throne. They will allow him to be in his workshop to ...
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON I was sent to a school because my father was already aware that his days were numbered, and he was a...
SIGRID UNDSET I never saw a moor, I never saw the sea; Yet know I how the heather looks, And what a wave must be. ...
EMILY DICKINSON Sometimes the Lord calms the storm. Sometimes He lets the storm rage and calms His child.
UNKNOWN Before God manifested Himself, when all things were still hidden in Him... He began by forming an im...
ALBERT PIKE He teareth me in his wrath, who hateth me: he gnasheth upon me with his teeth; mine enemy sharpeneth...
BIBLE Why does a virtuous man take delight in the landscapes? Because the din of the dusty world and the l...
KUO HIS Why does a virtuous man take delight in the landscapes? Because the din of the dusty world and the l...
KUO HIS Throw a lucky man into the sea, and he will come up with a fish in his mouth.
ARABIC PROVERB One of the coolest ways to start building a character is the way he moves his mouth, what part of th...
CORY MICHAEL SMITH We fall back into the past, we jump ahead into the future, and in this we lose our entire lives.
THICH NHAT HANH He who rides the sea of the Nile must have sails woven of patience.
WILLIAM GOLDING He who rides the sea of the Nile must have sails woven of patience.
WILLIAM G. GOLDING He had said, "I am a man," and that meant certain things to Juana. It meant that he was half insane ...
JOHN STEINBACK In quiet and untroubled times it seems to every administrator that it is only by his efforts that th...
LEO TOLSTOY My theory is that everything an actor does, from the way he looks at his watch to the way he moves a...
BERNARD SAHLINS God always stages a storm before a miracle, only to show off His Omnipotence!
тαмιℓιαηρσηηυ God was alive when this universe exploded into existence. He was alive when Socrates drank his poiso...
JOHN PIPER He rides in the game like heavy cavalry getting into position for the assault. trots about, keenly w...
PATRICK THOMPSON He would drive his strength against a mountain and plunge his strength against the sea...but know th...
POPE JOHN XXII Easter Commemoration of John Donne, Priest, Poet, 1631 God, who is Almighty, Alpha and Omega, Fi...
JOHN DONNE Does he belong on the disqualified list? Our answer is yes. He is failing to perform his services. N...
TONY TAVARES The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars/ But in ourselves.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE If you come to help us,for the moment,you will not gain any profit. We have no oil. We have nothing ...
HIS HOLINESS THE DALAI LAMA It was frustrating to still be in the dark about something and be given only so little light.
LAUREN LOLA The Fisherman Piping A fisherman skilled in music took his flute and his nets to the seashore. Stan...
AESOP God plants His saints in the most useless places. We say, 'God intends me to be here because I am so...
OSWALD CHAMBERS Were you there?”
She shook her head. “No. I was here in Nain having a
child.”
�...
FRANCINE RIVERS God is the one who saved me. He who believes in God, in His cause and His truth is capable of standi...
KING HUSSEIN Anthropocentric as [the gardener] may be, he recognizes that he is dependent for his health and surv...
MICHAEL POLLAN It was his power, his gift, suddenly to shed all superfluities, to shrink and diminish so that he lo...
VIRGINIA WOOLF Let God create in you His masterpiece. He will make you truly different and joyfully weird.
CRAIG GROESCHEL He's a very smart receiver in the slot, ... He does a great job with his moves at the top of his rou...
DREW BLEDSOE

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Wi...
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WILLIAM COWPER Fast-anchor'd isle.
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WILLIAM COWPER Some to the fascination of a name, Surrender judgment hoodwinked.
WILLIAM COWPER Exactness is the sublimity of fools. [Fr., L'exactitude est le sublime des sots.]
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WILLIAM COWPER Oh, for a lodge in some vast wilderness, Some boundless contiguity of shade, Where rumour of o...
WILLIAM COWPER I praise the Frenchman; his remark was shrewd,-- "How sweet, how passing sweet is solitude." B...
WILLIAM COWPER A story, in which native humour reigns, Is often useful, always entertains; A graver fact, enl...
WILLIAM COWPER Words learn'd by rote a parrot may rehearse, But talking is not always to converse, Not more d...
WILLIAM COWPER Variety's the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavour.
WILLIAM COWPER The earth was made so various, that the mind Of desultory man, studious of change And pleased ...
WILLIAM COWPER His wit invites you by his looks to come, But when you knock, it never is at home.
WILLIAM COWPER Ten thousand casks, Forever dribbling out their base contents, Touch'd by the Midas finger of ...
WILLIAM COWPER Still ending, and beginning still.
WILLIAM COWPER We bear our shades about us; self-deprived Of other screen, the thin umbrella spread, And rang...
WILLIAM COWPER Some boundless contiguity of shade.
WILLIAM COWPER No tree in all the grove but has its charms, Though each its hue peculiar.
WILLIAM COWPER Discourse may want an animated "No"To brush the surface, and to make it flow;But still remember, if ...
WILLIAM COWPER Me howling blasts drive devious, tempest-tossed, / Sails ripped, seams opening wide, and compass los...
WILLIAM COWPER Spare feast! a radish and an egg.
WILLIAM COWPER I was a stricken deer, that left the herd / Long since.
WILLIAM COWPER Away went Gilpin, neck or naught, / Away went hat and wig!
WILLIAM COWPER