Samuel Rogers
Poet, 1763-1855
Cited as Rogers. — 59 quotations
Acquaintance
It is in our power to confine our friendships and intimacies to men of virtue.
Alterable
Our condition in this world is mutable and uncertain, alterable by a thousand accidents.
Approve
The first care and concern must be to approve himself to God.
Arrive
When he arrived at manhood.
Chill
Every thought on God chills the gayety of his spirits.
Concern
They think themselves out the reach of Providence, and no longer concerned to solicit his favor.
Conclusive
Secret reasons . . . equally conclusive for us as they were for them.
Concurrence
We collect the greatness of the work, and the necessity of the divine concurrence to it.
Contention
An end . . . worthy our utmost contention to obtain.
Criminal
The neglect of any of the relative duties renders us criminal in the sight of God.
Devout
We must be constant and devout in the worship of God.
Dim
The understanding is dim.
Discipline
The most perfect, who have their passions in the best discipline, are yet obliged to be constantly on their guard.
Discredit
It is the duty of every Christian to be concerned for the reputation or discredit his life may bring on his profession.
Dispensation
Neither are God's methods or intentions different in his dispensations to each private man.
Disproof
I need not offer anything farther in support of one, or in disproof of the other.
Divertive
Things of a pleasant and divertive nature.
Entreat
It were a fruitless attempt to appease a power whom no prayers could entreat.
Fallen
Some ruined temple or fallen monument.
Ferment
Subdue and cool the ferment of desire.
Flexible
This was a principle more flexible to their purpose.
Hazard
Men are led on from one stage of life to another in a condition of the utmost hazard.
History
Many glorious examples in the annals of our religion.
Honor
If my honor is meant anything distinct from conscience, 't is no more than a regard to the censure and esteem of the world.
Impenitence
He will advance from one degree of wickedness and impenitence to another.
Incidental
By some, religious duties . . . appear to be regarded . . . as an incidental business.
Indulgence
If all these gracious indulgences are without any effect on us, we must perish in our own folly.
Infliction
His severest inflictions are in themselves acts of justice and righteousness.
Influence
The principle which influenced their obedience has lost its efficacy.
Information
Larger opportunities of information.
Internal
The internal rectitude of our actions in the sight of God.
Irrespective
According to this doctrine, it must be resolved wholly into the absolute, irrespective will of God.
Lapse
To guard against those lapses and failings to which our infirmities daily expose us.
Legion
Where one sin has entered, legions will force their way through the same breach.
Loiter
If we have loitered, let us quicken our pace.
Mild
Adore him as a mild and merciful Being.
Mingle
A mingled, imperfect virtue.
Negation
Our assertions and negations should be yea and nay.
Observance
Some represent to themselves the whole of religion as consisting in a few easy observances.
Project
Projects of happiness devised by human reason.
Reclaim
It is the intention of Providence, in all the various expressions of his goodness, to reclaim mankind.
Recover
Even good men have many failings and lapses to lament and recover.
Redound
The honor done to our religion ultimately redounds to God, the author of it.
Reprieve
He reprieves the sinnner from time to time.
Reserve
Each has some darling lust, which pleads for a reserve.
Reverse
Custom . . . reverses even the distinctions of good and evil.
Silence
These would have silenced their scruples.
Situation
A situation of the greatest ease and tranquillity.
Stable
In this region of chance, . . . where nothing is stable.
Stop
So melancholy a prospect should inspire us with zeal to oppose some stop to the rising torrent.
Submit
Our religion requires from us . . . to submit to pain, disgrace, and even death.
Subversion
Laws have been often abused to the oppression and subversion of that order they were intended to preserve.
Subversive
Lying is a vice subversive of the very ends and design of conversation.
Supplicant
The wise supplicant . . . left the event to God.
Trial
Every station is exposed to some trials.
Unlimited
Ascribe not unto God such an unlimited exercise of mercy as may destroy his justice.
Unsearchable
The counsels of God are to us unsearchable.
Vacuity
God . . . alone can answer all our longings and fill every vacuity of our soul.
Worldling
If we consider the expectations of futurity, the worldling gives up the argument.