William Cowper Quotes About Judgment
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Alas! if my best Friend, who laid down His life for me, were to remember all the instances in which I have neglected Him, and to plead them against me in judgment, where should I hide my guilty head in the day of recompense? I will pray, therefore, for blessings on my friends, even though they cease to be so, and upon my enemies, though they continue such.
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And diff'ring judgments serve but to declare that truth lies somewhere, if we knew but where.
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Some to the fascination of a name, Surrender judgment hoodwinked.
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Where men of judgment creep and feel their way, The positive pronounce without dismay.
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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.
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Pleasure admitted in undue degree, enslaves the will, nor leaves the judgment free.
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It is a general rule of Judgment, that a mischief should rather be admitted than an inconvenience.
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