almighty quotes

   And, pleased th'Almighty's orders to perform, Rides in the whirl-wind, and directs the storm.

-Joseph Addison
  The Campaign,1.291^2.

The spacious firmament on high, With all the blue ethereal sky, And spangled heavens, a shining frame, Their great Original proclaim. Th'unwearied sun from day to day Does his Creator's power display; And publishes to every land The work of an Almighty hand.

-Joseph Addison
  In The Spectator, no.465, 23  Aug.

Canst thou by searching find out God? canst thou find out the Almighty unto perfection? It is as high asheaven; what canst thou do? deeper than hell; what canst thou know? The measurethereof islonger thanthe earth, and broader than the sea.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Job11:7^9.

Behold, my desire is, that the Almighty would answer me, and that mine adversary had written a book.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Job 31:35.

To fight for the right, to abhor the imperfect, the unjust, or the mean, to swerve neither to the right hand nor the left, to care nothing for flattery or applause or odium or abuseit is so easy to have any of them in Indianever to let your enthusiasm be soured or your courage grow dim but to remember that the Almighty has placed your hand on the greatest of his ploughs, in whose furrow the nations of the future are germinating and taking shape, to drive the blade a little forward in your time and to feel that somewhere among those millions you have left, a little justice, or happiness or prosperity, a sense of manliness or moral dignity, a springof patriotism, a dawn of intellectual enlightenmentora stirringofduty whereit did not exist beforethat is enough, that is the Englishman's justification in India.

- Lord George Nathaniel Curzon (of Kedleston)
  Farewell speech on departing from Bombay as Viceroy of India.

Just as the pious man prays without speaking a word and the Almighty hearkens unto him, so the artist with true feelings paints and the sensitive man understands and recognizes it.

- Caspar David Friedrich
Quoted in S Hinz Caspar David Friedrich in Briefen und Bekenntnissen (1968).

For who knows not that Truth is strong next to the Almighty? She needs no policies, nor stratagems, nor licensings to make her victorious.

-John Milton
  Areopagitica: a speech for the liberty of unlicensed printing.