God quotes
Nam tibi carior est ille filius equae quam ille filius Dei? Is this son of a mare dearer to you, then, than that son of God?
Nec audiendi qui solent dicere, vox populi, vox Dei, quum tumultuositas vulgi semper insaniae proxima sit. We should not listen to those who like to affirm that the voice of the people is the voice of God, for the tumult of the masses is truly close to madness.
All things bright and beautiful, All creatures great and small, All things wise and wonderful, The Lord God made them all.
The rich man in his castle, The poor man at his gate, God made them, high or lowly, And ordered their estate.
Not only is there no God, but try getting a plumber on weekends.
When Iwas10,I expresslygave God oneyear tomanifest himself. He didn't.
CromwellsaidtotheLong Parliament whenhethought it wasno longer fitto conducttheaffairs of thenation,'You havesattoolong hereforanygood youhavebeendoing. Depart, I say, and let us have done with you. In the name of God, go!'
The nearer the Church, the further from God.
Thegloryof God isman, and thegloryof manishisdress.
Not what thou arte, ne what thou hast ben, beholdeth God with his mercyful iye; bot that thou woldest be.
O God in Heaven, on you we call, Kyrie eleison, Help us seize our priests and kill them all, Kyrie eleison.
Back and side go bare, go bare, Both foot and hand go cold; But, belly,God send thee good ale enough, Whether it be new or old.
Flavit deus et dissipati sunt God blew and they were scattered.
The rose is red, the leaves are green, God save Elizabeth, our noble queen.
Four and twenty Yankees, feeling very dry, Went across the border to get a drink of rye. When the rye was opened, theYanks began to sing, 'God bless America, but God save the King!'
Dear Sir, your astonishment's odd: I am always about in the Quad. And that's why the tree Will continue to be Since observed by Yours faithfully,God. See Knox 476:22.
Dieu est avec tout le monde Et, en fin de compte, il est toujours avec ceux qui ont beaucoup d'argent et de grosses arme es. God is on everyone's side And, in the last analysis, he is on the side with plenty of money and large armies.
Kill them all.God will recognize his own.
A God, a God their severance ruled! And bade betwixt their shores to be The unplumbed, salt, estranging sea.
The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light He who works for sweetness and light united, works to make reason and the will of God prevail.
The first sense he had of God was when he was eleven years oldat Chigwell being retired intoa chamberalone: he was so suddenly surprised with a sense of inward comfort and (as he thought) an external glory in the room that he had many times said that from thence he has the Seal of Divinityand Immortality, that there was a God and thatthesoul of manwas capable ofenjoying his divine communications.
An agreeable harmony for the honour of God and the permissible delights of the soul.
But men must know, that in this theatre of man's life it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers on.
It were better to have no opinion of God at all than such an opinion as is unworthy of him.
It had been hard for him that spake it to have put more truth and untruth together, in a few words, than in that speech: 'Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast, or a god.'
God Almighty first planteda garden; and indeed, it isthe purest of human pleasures.
God's first Creature, which was Light.
If the concept of God has any validity or any use, it can only be to make us larger, freer, and more loving. If God cannot do this, then it is time we got rid of Him.
Whether the angels play only Bach in praising God I am not quite sure; I am sure, however, that en famille they play Mozart.
O beautiful for spacious skies, For amber waves of grain, For purple mountain majesties Above the fruited plain! America! America! God shed Hisgrace on thee. And crown thy good with brotherhood From sea to shining sea.
Quand me" me Dieu n'existerait pas, la religion serait encore sainte et divineDieu est le seul e" tre qui, pour re gner, n'ait me" me pas besoin d'exister. Even if God did not exist, religion would still be holyand divine.God isthe only being who, inorder toreign, need not even exist.
The immortal god of harmony.
I am a Catholic. As far as possible I go to Mass every day. Asfaraspossible Ikneeldownandtell these beadsevery day. If you reject me on account of my religion, I shall thank God that he has spared me the indignity of being your representative.
Land of Hope and Glory, Mother of the Free, How shall we extol thee who are born of thee? Wider still and wider shall thy bounds be set; God who made thee mighty, make thee mightier yet.
If the iron dice roll, may God help us.
And God saw that it was good.
And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made, and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made. And God blessed the seventh dayand sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made.
And the L God planted a garden eastwards in Eden; and there he put the manwhom he had formed. And out of the ground made the L God to grow every tree that is pleasant for the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil.
And the L God caused a deep sleep to fall on Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof; And the rib, which the LGod had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man. And Adam said,This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man. Thereforeshall a manleavehisfatherand hismother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.
My son,God will provide himself a lamb for a burnt offering.
And Moses hid his face; for he was afraid to look upon God.
And God said unto Moses,
And God spake all these words, saying,Iamthe L thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. Thou shalt have no other gods before me. Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that isinheaven above, or that isin the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth: Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the L thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me; And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments. Thoushalt nottakethename of the L thy God invain; for the L will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain. Remember thesabbath day, to keep it holy. Six daysthou shalt labour and do all thy work: But the seventh day is the sabbath of the L thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates: For in six days the L made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the L blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it. Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long uponthelandwhichtheL thy Godgiveththee. Thou shalt not kill. Thou shalt not commit adultery. Thou shalt not steal. Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour. Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbour's.
God is not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that heshould repent: hathhesaid, and shall henot do it? or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good?
What hath God wrought!
Ye shall not go afterother gods, of thegods ofthe people which are round about you; (For the L thy God is a jealous God among you).
The eternal God is thy refuge, and underneath are the everlasting arms.
Intreat me not to leave thee, or to return from following after thee: for whither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest,Iwill lodge: thy peopleshall be my people, and thy God my God: Where thou diest, will I die, and there will I be buried: the L do so to me, and more also, if ought but death part thee and me.
For we must needs die, and are as water spilt on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again: neither doth God respect any person.
God save the king.
Cry aloud: for he is a god; either he is talking, or he is pursuing, or he is in a journey, or peradventure he sleepeth, and must be wakened.
Shall mortal man be more just than God? shall a man be more pure than his maker?
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.
For I know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth: And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God.
The fool hath said in his heart,There is no God.
My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? why art thou so far from helping me, and from the words of my roaring?
Why art thou cast down,O my soul? and why art thou disquieted in me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him for the help of his countenance.
God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble. Therefore will not we fear, though the earth be removed, and though the mountains be carried into the midst of the sea.
There is a river, the streams whereof shall make glad the cityof God, theholy place of thetabernacles ofthemost High.God is in the midst of her; she shall not be moved: God shall help her, and that right early.
God be merciful untous, and blessus; and causehis face to shine upon us; Selah. That thy way may be known upon earth, thy saving health among all nations. Let the peoplepraisethee,OGod; let all thepeople praisethee.
Truly God isgood to Israel, even to such as are of a clean heart.But as for me, my feet were almost gone; my steps had well nigh slipped. For I was envious at the foolish, when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.
Nevertheless I am continually with thee: thou hast holden me by my right hand. Thou shalt guide me with thy counsel, and afterward receive me to glory.Whom have I in heaven but thee? and there is none upon earth that I desire beside thee. My flesh and my heart faileth: but God is the strength of my heart, and my portion for ever.
Glorious things are spoken of thee,O city of God.
Lord, thou hast been our dwelling place in all generations. Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God.
Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man.
To whom then will ye liken God? or what likeness will ye compare unto him?
Thereforethus will Idountothee,OIsrael: and because I will do this unto thee, prepare to meet thy God,O Israel.
Have wenot all onefather, hath not one God createdus? why do we deal treacherously every man against his brother, by profaning the covenant of our fathers?
But thesouls of therighteous are inthehand of God, and there shall no torment touch them. In the sight of the unwise they seemed to die: and their departure is taken for misery, And their going from us to be utter destruction: but theyare in peace. For though they be punished in the sight of men, yet is their hope full of immortality. And having beena little chastised,theyshall be greatly rewarded: for God proved them, and found them worthy for himself.
And Jesus, when he was baptized, went up straightway out of the water: and, lo, the heavens were opened unto him, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove, and lighting uponhim: And loavoicefromheaven, saying,This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.
Then was Jesus led up of the spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil. And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was afterward an hungred. And when the tempter came to him, he said, If thou be the Son of God, command that these stones be made bread. But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.
Jesus said unto him, It is written again,Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God.
Again, the devil taketh him up into an exceeding high mountain, and sheweth him all the kingdoms of the world, and the glory of them; And saith unto him, All these things will I give thee, if thou wilt fall down and worship me. Then saith Jesus unto him,Get thee hence, Satan: for it is written,Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve.
And seeing the multitudes, he went up into a mountain: and when he was set, his disciples came unto him: And he opened his mouth, and taught them, saying, Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs isthe kingdom of heaven. Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted. Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth. Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled. Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy. Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God. Blessedarethepeacemakers: for theyshall be called the children of God. Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness'sake: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Blessedare ye, whenmenshall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake. Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great is your reward in heaven: for so persecuted they the prophets which were before you.
Nomancanservetwomasters: foreitherhewill hatethe one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other.Ye cannot serve God and mammon.
What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.
And again I say unto you, It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.
When his disciples heard it, they were exceedingly amazed, saying,Who then can be saved? But Jesus beheld them, and said unto them,With men this is impossible; but with God all things are possible.
Render therefore unto Caesar the things which are Caesar's; and unto God the things that are God's.
For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels of God in heaven.
Jesus said unto him,Thou shalt love the Lord Thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like unto it,Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.
And about the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? that is to say, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?
And when the centurion, which stood over against him, saw that he so cried out, and gave up the ghost, he said, Truly this man was the Son of God.
And Mary said, My soul doth magnify the Lord, And my spirit hath rejoiced in God my Saviour. For he hath regarded the low estate of his handmaiden: for, behold, from henceforth all generations shall call me blessed. For he that is mighty hath done to me great things; and holy is his name. And his mercy is on them that fear him from generation to generation. He hath shewed strength with his arm; he hath scattered the proud in the imagination of their hearts. He hath put down the mighty from their seats, and exalted them of low degree. He hath filled the hungry with good things; and the rich he hath sent emptyaway.
And Jesus increased inwisdomand stature, and in favour with God and man.
And Jesus said unto him,No man, having put his hand to the plough, and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God.
Neither shall they say, Lo here! or, lo there! for, behold, the kingdom of God is within you.
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by him; and without him was not anything made that was made.
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.
Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me.
Be not faithless, but believing. And Thomas answered and said unto him, My Lord and my God.Jesus saith unto him,Thomas, because thou hast seen me, thou hast believed: blessed are they that have not seen, and yet have believed.
And he leaping up stood, and walked, and entered with them into the temple, walking, and leaping, and praising God.
We ought to obey God rather than men.
What God hath cleansed, that call not thou common.
Of a truth I perceive that God isno respecter of persons: But in every nation he that feareth Him, and worketh righteousness, is accepted with Him.
Ye men of Athens,I perceive that in all things ye are too superstitious. For as I passed by, and beheld your devotions,I found an altar with this inscription,. Whom therefore ye ignorantly worship, him declare I unto you.
God that made the world and all things therein, seeing that he is Lord of heaven and earth, dwelleth not in temples made with hands.
And the times of this ignorance God winked at; but now commandeth all men every where to repent.
God forbid: yea, let God be true, but every man a liar.
What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound? God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein?
If God be for us, who can be against us?
Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God.
Now there are diversities of gifts, but the same Spirit. And there are differences of administrations, but the same Lord. And there are diversities of operations, but it is the same God which worketh all in all.
But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty.
I have planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase.
Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves; but our sufficiency is of God; Who also hathmade us ableministers of thenew testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.
So let him give; not grudgingly, or of necessity: for God loveth a cheerful giver.
Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.
Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens with the saints, and of the household of God.
Whose end is destruction, whose God is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things.
My God shall supplyall yourneedaccording tohisriches in glory by Christ Jesus.
For our God is a consuming fire.
But now theydesirea bettercountry, that is, anheavenly: wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God: for he hath prepared for them a city.
Submit yourselvesthereforeto God,Resistthe devil, and he will flee from you.Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you.
Honour all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honour the king.
But whoso hath this world's good, and seeth his brother have need, and shutteth up his bowels of compassion from him, how dwelleth the love of God in him?
Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God. He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.
Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.
If a mansay,I love God, and hatethhis brother, heisa liar: for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen?
These are they which came out of great tribulation, and have washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb. Therefore are they before the throne of God, and servehimdayand night inhistemple: and he that sitteth on the throne shall dwell among them. They shall hunger no more, neither thirst any more; neither shall the sun light on them nor any heat. For the Lamb which is in the midst of the throne shall feed them, and shall lead them unto living fountains of waters: and God shall wipe awayall tears from their eyes.
And God shall wipe awayall tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, norcrying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away. And he that sat upon the throne said,Behold, I make all things new. And he said unto me, Write: for these words are true and faithful.
Magnificat anima mea Dominum; et exsultavit spiritus meus in Deo salvatore meo. My soul doth magnify the Lord: and my spirit hath rejoiced in God my Saviour. See Bible (NewTestament) 115:23.
Put your trust in God, my boys, and keep your powder dry. See Forgy 330:25.
And all must love the human form, In heathen,Turk or Jew; Where mercy, Love and Pity dwell There God is dwelling too.
The Pride of the peacock is the glory of God. The lust of the goat is the bounty of God. The wrath of the lion is the wisdom of God. The nakedness of woman is the work of God.
And did those feet in ancient time Walk upon England's mountains green? And was the holy Lamb of God On England's pleasant pastures seen?
God appears and God is light To those poor souls who dwell in night, But does a human form display To those who dwell in realms of day.
It is not the constant thought of their sins, but the vision of the holiness of God that makes the saints aware of their own sinfulness.
Suffolk used to worship Sunday, not God.
The Church knows nothing of a sacredness of war. The Church which prays'Our Father'asks God only for peace.
Ein Gott, der sich von uns beweisen lieÞe, w a« re ein G o« tze. A God who let us prove his existence would be an idol.
Lord God of Sabaoth.
And yet they are not three Gods: but one God.
Almighty God, give us grace that we may cast away the works of darkness, and put upon us the armour of light, now in the time of this mortal life.
Almighty God, unto whomall hearts be open, all desires known, and from whom no secrets are hid: Cleanse the thoughts of our hearts by the inspiration of thy Holy Spirit, that we may perfectly love thee, and worthily magnify thy holy Name; through Christ our Lord. Amen.
For Ithe Lord thy God ama jealous God, and visitthesins ofthefathersuponthe childrenuntothethird and fourth generation of them that hate me, and shew mercy unto thousands in them that love me and keep my commandments.
Very God of very God,Begotten, not made,Being of one substance with the Father, By whom all things were made: Who for us men and for our salvation came down from heaven.
Dearly beloved, we are gathered together here in the sight of God, and in the face of this Congregation, to join together this man and this woman in holy Matrimony; which is an honourable estate, instituted of God.
Those whom God hath joined together let no man put asunder.
Almighty God, the fountain of all goodness.
The heavens declare the glory of God: and the firmament sheweth his handywork.One day telleth another: and one night certifieth another. There is neither speech nor language: but their voices are heard among them. Their sound isgone out into all lands: and their words into the ends of the world.
My bones are smitten asunder as with a sword: while mine enemies that trouble me cast me in the teeth; Namely, while they say daily unto me: Where is now thy God?
He maketh wars to cease in all the world: he breaketh the bow, and knappeth the spear in sunder, and burneth the chariots in the fire. Be still then, and know that I am God.
God isgoneup with a merry noise: and the Lord with the sound of the trump.
Bemercifuluntome,OGod, be mercifuluntome, for my soul trusteth in thee: and under the shadow of thy wings shall be my refuge, until this tyranny be over-past.
He is the God that maketh men to be of one mind in an house, and bringeth the prisoners out of captivity: but letteth the runagates continue in scarceness.
Lord, thou hast been our refuge from one generation to another. Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever the earth and the world were made: thou art God from everlasting, and world without end.
Fear God, and take your own part.
We simply could not go on with policies that were a failure economically and internationally, and which we could not morally justify.To allocate rights and privileges on the basis of a physical characteristic was tantamount to sinning against God.
Oh,God! that men would see a little clearer, Or judge less harshly where they cannot see; Oh,God! that men would draw a little nearer To one another, they'd be nearer Thee, And understood.
If God had meant us to have group sex, I guess he'd have given us all more organs.
And I replied unto all these things which encompass the door of my flesh,'Ye have told me of my god, that ye are not he: tell me something of him'. And theycried all with a great voice,'He made us'.Myquestioning themwasmy mind's desire, and their Beauty was their answer.
I am as content to die for God's eternal truth on the scaffold as in any other way.
Life itself is but the shadow of death, and souls departed but the shadows of the living. All things fall under this name.The sun itself is but the dark simulacrum, and light but the shadow of God.
I love thee with the love I seemed to lose With my lost Saints,I love thee with the breath Smiles, tears, of all my life!and, if God choose, I shall but love thee better after death.
God answers sharp and sudden on some prayers, And thrusts the thing we have prayed for in our face, A gauntlet with a gift in't.
Earth's crammed with heaven, And every common bush afire with God.
God is the perfect poet, Who in his person acts his own creations.
The year's at the spring, And days at the morn; Morning's at seven; The hill-side's dew-pearled; The lark's on the wing; The snail's on the thorn; God's in His heaven All's right with the world.
Like a god going thro' his world there stands One mountain, for a moment in the dusk, Whole brotherhoods of cedars on its brow
And then how I shall lie through centuries, And hear the blessed mutter of the mass, And see God made and eaten all day long, And feel the steady candle-flame, and taste Good strong thick stupefying incense-smoke!
If you get simple beauty and naught else, You get about the best thing God invents.
But God has a few of us to whom he whispers in the ear; The rest may reason and welcome; 'tis we musicians know.
Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, The last of life, for which the first was made: Our times are in His hand Who saith,'A whole I planned, Youth shows but half; trust God: See all nor be afraid!'
Progress, man's distinctive mark alone, Not God's, and not the beasts'; God is, they are, Man partly is and wholly hopes to be.
Into that sad obscure sequestered state Where God unmakes but to remake the soul He else made first in vain; which must not be.
Glory is to God what style is to an artist To behold God's glory, to sense his style, is the closest you can get this side of Paradise, just as to read King Lear is the closest you can get to Shakespeare. 165
There is no event so commonplace but that God is present in it, alwayshiddenly, alwaysleaving you roomto recognize him or not to recognize him Listen to your life. See it for the fathomless mystery it is. In the boredom and pain of it no less than in the excitement and gladness: touch, taste, smell your way to the heavenlyand hidden heart of it because in the last analysis all moments are key moments, and life itself is grace.
He that is down needs fear no fall, He that is low no pride. He that is humble ever shall Have God to be his guide.
God wasgood onthephysical and emotional sides and a great one for hate. He generously spilled his own hate into his dearest creation.
From scenes like these, old S's grandeur springs, That makes her lov'd at home, rever'd abroad: Princes and lords are but the breath of kings, 'An honest man's the noble work of G'. See Pope 660:25.
Ithink thereareinnumerablegods.What we onearth call God is a little tribal God who has made an awful mess.
It has been said that although God cannot alter the past, historians can; it is perhaps because they can be useful to Him in this respect that He tolerates their existence.
An apology for the Devil: It must be remembered that wehave only heard oneside ofthe case.God has written all the books.
Doubtless God could have made a better berry, but doubtless God never did.
The existence of St Sophia is atmospheric; that of St Peter's, overpowering, imminently substantial.One is a church to God; the other a salon for his agents.One is consecrated to reality, the other to illusion. St Sophia, in fact, is large, and St Peter's is vilely, tragically small.
Herat, 8 December. What a day it was! God save me from any more adventures on a drained stomach.
When God hands you a gift, he also hands you a whip; and the whip is intended for self-flagellation solely.
You must understand,James, thattheir English God isnot so dominant a business institution as ours.
I have looked on a lot of women with lust. I have committed adultery in my heart many times.God recognizes I will do that, and forgives me.
Ille mi par esse Deo videtur, ille, si fas est, superare Divos, qui sedens adversus identidem te spectat et audit dulce ridentem. He seems to me to be like a god, even superior to the Gods, if it is permitted to say so, the man who sits gazing on you all day and listens to your sweet laughter.
Monet is onlyan eye, but my God what an eye!
I hold God personally responsible.
To God I speak Spanish, to women Italian, to men French, and to my horseGerman.
Go, litel bok, go, litel myn tragedye, Ther God thi makere yet, er that he dye, So sende myght to make in som comedye!
And for ther is so gret diversite In Englissh and in writing of oure tonge, So prey I God that non myswrite the, Ne the mysmetre for defaute of tonge. And red wherso thow be, or elles songe, That thow be understonde,God I biseche!
Yblessed be god that I have wedded fyve! Welcome the sixte, whan that evere he shal.
Love wol nat been constreyned by maistrye. Whan maistrie comth, the God of Love anon Beteth his wynges, and farewel he isgon!
'By God,'quod he,'for pleynly, at a word, Thy drasty rymyng is nat worth a toord!'
He desired all beautiful thingseven God.
For the great Gaels of Ireland Are the men that God made mad, For all their wars are merry, And all their songs are sad.
If Her Majesty's Government be really desirous of seeing a well-conducted community spring up in these Colonies, the social wants of the people must be considered For all the clergy you can despatch, all the schoolmasters you can appoint, all the churches you can build, and all the books you can export, will never do much good without what a gentleman in that Colony veryappropriately called 'God's police'wives and little childrengood and virtuous women. 213
Icould have beena god, but people onlyallow youtoget so far in this country.
There, but for the grace of God, goes God.
I long for scenes where man hath never trod A place where woman never smiled or wept There to abide with my Creator God And sleep as I in childhood sweetly slept, Untroubling and untroubled where I lie The grass below, above, the vaulted sky.
Had CainbeenScot,Godwould have changedhisdoom Nor forced him wander, but confined him home.
This world is bad enough maybe; We do not comprehend it; But in one fact can all agree God won't, and we can't mend it.
'There is no God', the wicked saith, 'And truly it's a blessing, For what he might have done with us It's better only guessing.'
And almost every one when age, Disease, or sorrow strike him, Inclines to think there is a God, Or something very like him.
Thou shalt have one God only: who Would be at the expense of two?
'God save thee, ancient Mariner! From the fiends that plague thee thus! Why look'st thou so?'With my cross-bow I shot the Albatross.
O let me be awake, my God! Or let me sleep alway.
God the first garden made, and the first city Cain.
God moves in a mysterious way His wonders to perform; He plants his footsteps in the sea, And rides upon the storm.
Blind unbelief is sure to err, And scan his work in vain; God is his own interpreter, And he will make it plain.
Oh! for a closer walk with God, A calm and heav'nly frame; A light to shine upon the road That leads me to the Lamb!
God made the country, and man made the town.
Nature is but a name for an effect, Whose cause is God.
O Sleepless as the river under thee, Vaulting the sea, the prairies'dreaming sod, Unto us lowliest sometime sweep, descend And of the curveship lend a myth to God.
Wellcome, all Wonders in one sight! Eternity shut in a span. Summer in Winter, Day in Night. Heaven in Earth and God in Man.
Este natural impulso que Dios puso en m|su Majestad sabe por que y para que ; y sabe que le he pedido que apague la luz de mi entendimiento dejando so lo lo que baste para guardar su Ley, pues lo dema s sobra, (seg u n algunos) en una mujer; y aun hay quien dice que dan a. This natural impulse which God has implanted in meonly His Majesty knows whyand wherefore and His Majesty also knows that I have prayed to Him to extinguish the light of my mind, only leaving sufficient to keep His Law, since any more is overmuch, so some say, in a woman, and there are even those who say it is harmful.
'next to of course god america i love you land of the pilgrims'and so forth oh say can you see by the dawn's early my country 'tis of centuries come and go and are no more what of it we should worry in every language even deafanddumb they sons acclaim you glorious name by gorry by jingo by gee by gosh by gum
President Bushseems to think that the ship [of state] will be saved by imperceptible undercurrents, directed by the invisible hand of some cyclical economic god, that will gradually move the ship so that at the last moment it will miraculously glide past the rocks to safer shores.
The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance; which condition if he break, servitude is at once the consequence of his crime, and the punishment of his guilt.
'Did they dare, did they dare, to slay Owen Roe O'Neil?' 'Yes, theyslew with poisonhimthey feared tomeet with steel.' 'May God wither up their hearts! May their blood cease to flow! May they walk in living death, who poisoned Owen Roe!'
As I am a woman and women do not count in the State, I refuse to be counted. Rebellion against tyrants is obedience to God.
Imagine the Lord talking French! Aside from a few odd wordsin Hebrew,Itook it forgrantedthat God had never spoken anything but the most dignified English.
Wherever God erects a house of prayer, The Devil always builds a chapel there; And 'twill be found, upon examination, The latter hast the largest congregation.
A wrong decision can make me very miserable.But I have trust in God. If you have this trust you don't have to worry, as you don't have the sole responsibility.
Supponam igitur non optimum Deum, fontem veritatis, sed genium aliquum malignum, eundemque summe potentem et callidum, omnem suam industriam in eo posuisse, ut me falleret. I will suppose then, not that there is a supremely good God, the source of truth; but that there is an evil spirit, who is supremely powerful and intelligent, and does his utmost to deceive me.
Agnoscam fieri non posse ut existam talis naturae qualis sum, nempe ideam Dei in me habens, nisi revera Deus etiam existeret, Deus, inquam, ille idem cujus idea in me est. I could not possibly exist with the nature I actually have, that is, one endowed with the idea of God, unless there really is a God; the very God, I mean, of whom I have an idea.
It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
'God bless us every one!'said TinyTim, the last of all.
Of Consciousness, her awful Mate The soul cannot be rid As easy the secreting her Behind the Eyes of God.
O God of Bethel! by whose hand Thy people still are fed, Who through this weary pilgrimage Hast all our fathers led.
Father of Peace, and God of love! We ownThy power to save, That power by which our Shepherd rose Victorious o'er the grave.
Batter my heart, three-personed God; for You As yet but knock, breathe, shine, and seek to mend.
It istoo littleto call mana little world; except God, manis a diminutive to nothing.
My God, my God, thou art a direct God, may I not saya literal God But thou art alsoa figurative, a metaphorical God too.
He brought light out of darkness, not out of a lesser light; he canbring thysummerout of winter, though thou have no spring God comes to thee, not as in the dawning of the day, not as in the bud of the spring, but as the sun at noontoillustrateall shadows,asthesheavesinharvestto fill all penuries. All occasions invite his mercies, and all times are his seasons.
I throw myself down in my Chamber, and I call in, and invite God, and his Angels thither, and when they are there, I neglect God and his Angels, for the noise of a fly, for the rattling of a coach, for the whining of a door.
Who loves not music and the heavenly muse, That man God hates.
Desire of power, on earth a vicious weed, Yet, sprung from high, is of celestial seed: In God 'tisglory; and when men aspire, 'Tis but a spark too much of heavenly fire.
From plots and treasons Heaven preserve my years, But save me most from my petitioners. Unsatiate as the barren womb or grave; God cannot grant so much as they can crave.
For those whom God to ruin has designed, He fits for fate, and first destroys their mind.
With ravished ears The monarch hears, Assumes the god, Affects to nod, And seems to shake the spheres.
Better to hunt in fields, for health unbought, Than fee the doctor for a nauseous draught. The wise, for cure, on exercise depend; God never made his work, for man to mend.
But I can't think for you, You'll have to decide, Whether Judas Iscariot Had God on his side.
You would think the fury of aerial bombardment Would rouse God to relent; the infinite spaces Are still silent. He looks on shock-pried faces. History, even, does not know what is meant.
Was man made stupid to see his own stupidity? Is God by definition indifferent, beyond us all? Is the eternal truth man's fighting soul Wherein the Beast ravens in its own avidity?
I think it is something of the same sort of security we should seek in our relationship with God. The most flawless proof of the existence of God isno substitute for it; and if we have that relationship, the most convincing disproof is turned aimlessly aside.If I may say it with reverence, the soul and God laugh together over so odd a conclusion.
Also say to them, that they suffre hym this day to wynne his spurres, for if god be pleased, I well this journey be his, and the honoure thereof. 300
Raffiniert ist der Herrgott, aber boshaft ist er nicht. God is subtle, but he is not malicious.
We hand folks over to God's mercy, and show none ourselves.
What life have you if you have not life together? There is not life that is not in community, And no community not lived in praise of God.
God the Omnipotent! King, who ordainest Great windsThy clarions, lightningsThy sword.
Just as I am, without one plea But that Thy blood was shed for me, And that Thou bid'st me come toThee, O Lamb of God, I come!
The dice of God are always loaded.
How odd Of God To choose The Jews.
Had every Christian in Hitler's Europe followed the example of the king of Denmark and decided to put on the yellow star, there would be today neither despair in the church nor talk of the death of God.
Todo se ha escrito, todo se ha dicho, todo se ha hecho, oyo Dios que le dec|an y a u n no hab|a creado el mundo, todav|a no hab|a nada.Tambie n eso ya me lo han dicho, repuso quiza desde la vieja, hendida Nada.Ycomenzo . Everything has been written, everything has been said, everything has been made: that's what God heard before creating the world, when there was nothing yet. I have also heard that one, he may have answered from the old, split Nothingness. And then he began.
Dios so lo nos tiene aqu | prestados, en este valle de la grimas no estamos ma s que de paso. Si llegara alg u n d|a a pensar que ha perdido a su hija para el mundo de los hombres, la habra ganado para el de los a ngeles. God has us here only on loan, we are transitory in this vale of tears. If you ever come to think that you have lost your daughter to the world of men, think also that you have given her to that of the angels.
Un romancier, selon moi, n'a pas le droit de dire son avis sur les choses de ce monde. Il doit, dans sa vocation, imiter Dieu dans la sienne, c'est-a' -dire faire et se taire. A novelist, in my opinion, does not have the right to give advice on the affairs of the world. He must, in his occupation, imitate God in His; that is to say, create and keep quiet.
For the nineteenth century, the initial model of madness would be to believe oneself to be God, while for the preceding centuries it had been to deny God.
One morning, as I was sitting by the fire, a great cloud came over me, and a temptation beset me, and I sate still And as I sate still under it and let it alone, a living hope rose in me, and a true voice arose in me which cried:There is a living God who made all things. And immediately the cloud and temptation vanished away, and the life rose over it all, and my heart was glad, and I praised the living God.
The knowledge that you can have is inexhaustible, and what is inexhaustible is benevolent. The knowledge that you cannot have is of the riddles of birth and death, of our future destinyand the purposes of God. Here there is no knowledge, but illusions that restrict freedom and limit hope. Accept the mystery behind knowledge: It is not darkness but shadow.
God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun proper or improper. See Hugo 421:83.
God sends meat, and the devil sends cooks.
I could prove God statistically.
White people really deal more with God and black people with Jesus.
C'est de la' que vient tout le mal: Dieu est un homme. All evil comes from this fact: God is a man.
Remember the rights of the savage, as we call him. Remember that the happiness of his humble home, remember that the sanctity of life in the hill villages of Afghanistan, among the winter snows, is as inviolable in the eye of Almighty God as can be your own.
Ich kenne mich auch nicht und Gott soll michauch davor behuten. I do not know myself, and God forbid that I should.
God grant me a failure like that! See Mer imee 5 67:13.
Death was the only absolute value in my world. Lose life and one would lose nothing again for ever Death was far more certain than God, and with death there would no longer be the daily possibility of love dying.
Those who marry Godcan become domesticated tooit's just as humdrum a marriage as all the others.
Perhaps we are all fictions, father, in the minds of God.
God has instituted in our time holy wars, so that the order of knights and the crowd running in their wake, who following the example of the ancient pagans have been engaged in slaughtering one another, might find a new way of gaining salvation.
Ye holyangels bright, Who wait at God's right hand, Or through the realms of light Flyat your Lord's command, Assist our song, Or else the theme too high doth seem For mortal tongue.
Goda gaseous vertebrate.
God does not die on the day when we cease to believe in a personal deity, but we die on the day when our lives cease to be illumined by the steady radiance, renewed daily, of a wonder, the source of which is beyond all reason.
What was good for God's birds was bad for God's gardener.
And I said to the man who stood at the gate of the year: 'Givemea lightthat Imay tread safely intotheunknown.' Hawking And he replied: 'Go out into the darkness and put your hand into the hand of God. That shall be to you better than light and safer than a known way.'
God not only plays dice. He also sometimes throws the dice where they cannot be seen. See Einstein 301:32.
If we find the answer to that, it would be the ultimate triumph of humanreasonfor then we would know the mind of God.
There's a one-eyed yellow idol to the north of Khatmandu, There's a little marble cross below the town, There'sa broken-heartedwomantendsthegrave of Mad Carew, And theYellow God forever gazes down.
Holy, Holy, Holy! Lord God Almighty! Early in the morning our song shall rise toThee: Holy, Holy, Holy! merciful and mighty! God inThree Persons, blesse' d Trinity.
Dieu me pardonnera. C'est son me tier. God will forgive me. It is His trade.
Let all the world in ev'ry corner sing My God and King.
Teach me, my God and King, In all thingsThee to see, And what I do in any thing To do it as forThee.
When God at first made man, Having a glass of blessings standing by, 'Let us,'said he,'pour on him all we can: Let the world's riches, which disperse' d lie, Contract into a span'.
Farewell, sweet phrases, lovely metaphors: But will ye leave me thus? when ye before Of stews and brothels only knew the doors, Then did I wash you with my tears, and more, Brought you to church well-dressed and clad: My God must have my best, even all I had.
Throw away thy rod, Throw away thy wrath: O my God, Take the gentle path.
Get up, get up for shame, the blooming morn Upon her wings presents the god unshorn.
In Geometry (which is the only science that it hath pleased God hithertotobestowonmankind) men begin at settling the significations of their words; whichthey call Definitions.
Mama may have, papa may have, But God bless the child that's got his own! That's got his own.
I did say yes O at lightning and lashed rod; Thou heardst me truer than tongue confess Thy terror,O Christ,O God.
Glory be to God for dappled things.
Godis so great that all things give him glory if you mean they should.
That night, that year Of now done darkness I wretch lay wrestling with (my God!) my God.
Say, for what were hop-yards meant, Or why was Burton built onTrent? Oh many a peer of England brews Livelier liquor than the Muse, And malt does more than Milton can To justify God's ways to man. Ale, man, ale's the stuff to drink For fellows whom it hurts to think.
And how am I to face the odds Of man's bedevilment and God's? I, a stranger and afraid In a world I never made.
Their shoulders held the sky suspended; They stood, and earth's foundations stay; What God abandoned, these defended, And saved the sum of things for pay.
I take these to be the seven great facts and doctrines concerning Godhis richness; his double action, natural and supernatural; his perfect freedom; his delightfulness; his otherness; his adorableness and his prevenience.
No, the serpent did not Seduce Eve to the apple. All that's simply Corruption of the facts. Adam ate the apple. Eve ate Adam. The serpent ate Eve. This is the dark intestine. The serpent, meanwhile, Sleeps his meal off in Paradise Smiling to hear God's querulous calling.
Dieu s'est fait homme; Soit! Le diable s'est fait femme. God made himself a man. So be it! The devil made himself a woman.
Le mot, c'est leVerbe, et leVerbe, c'est Dieu. The word is theVerb, and theVerb is God.
Que se rompa el andamio de los huesos Que se derrumben las vigas del cerebro Yarrastre el huraca n los trozos a la nada al otro lado En donde el viento azota a Dios Smash the scaffold of the bones Pull down the rafters of the brain Let the hurricane drag the pieces to the nothing on the other side Where the wind thrashes God
Operationally,God is beginning to resemble not a ruler but the last fading smile of a cosmic Cheshire cat.
Many people believe that theyare attracted by God, or by Nature, when theyare only repelled by man.
An honest God is the noblest work of man. See Pope 660:25.
To shave the beard is a sin that the blood of all the martyrs cannot cleanse.It is to deface the image of man created by God.
Dieu est le point tangent de ze ro et de l'infini. God is the tangential point of zero and the infinite.
The wild God of the world is sometimes merciful to those That ask mercy, not often to the arrogant. You do not know him, you communal people, or you have forgotten him; Intemperate and savage, the hawk remembers him; Beautiful and wild, the hawks, and men that are dying, remember him.
Si je n'y suis, Dieu m'y veuille mettre; et si j'y suis, Dieu m'y veuille tenir. If I am not in grace, may God set me there; and if I am, may God keep me there.
If civil authorities legislate for or allow anything that is contrary to that order and therefore contrary to the will of God, neither the laws made or the authorizations granted can be binding on the consciences of the citizens, since God has more right to be obeyed than man.
God passes through the thicket of the world, and wherever his glance falls he turns all things to beauty.
I came, I saw,God conquered. See Caesar184:25, CharlesV 207:35.
O God! Put backThy universe and give me yesterday.
All God's Chillum Got Rhythm. 454
We should never make a god out of form.We should struggle for form onlyas long as it serves as a means of expression for the inner sound.
It's what God would have done if he'd had the money.
God finally caught his eye.
The music, yearning like a God in pain.
Homo proponit, sed Deus disponit. Man proposes, but God disposes.
Praise God, from whom all blessings flow, Praise Him, all creatures here below, Praise Him above, ye heavenly host, Praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost.
You don't fire God.
The bird onthebranch, thelily inthemeadow, thestag in the forest, the fish in the sea, the countless joyful creatures sing,God is Love. But beneath all these sopranos, as it were a sustained bass part, is the De profundis of the Sacrificed,God is Love.
We have genuflected before the god of science only to find that it has given us the atomic bomb, producing fears and anxieties that science can never mitigate.
Come; and strong within us Stir theVikings' blood; Bracing brain and sinew; Blow, thou wind of God!
We're poor little lambs who've lost our way, Baa! Baa! Baa! We're little black sheep who've gone astray, Baa-aa-aa! Gentlemen-rankers out on the spree, Damned from here to eternity, God ha'mercy on such as we, Baa! Yah! Bah!
When you're wounded and left on Afghanistan's plains And the women come out to cut up what remains Just roll to your rifle and blow out your brains An'go to your Gawd like a soldier.
Though I've belted you and flayed you, By the livin'Gawd that made you, You're a better man than I am,Gunga Din!
If blood be the price of admiralty Lord God, we ha'paid in full!
And only the Master shall praise us, and only the Master shall blame; And no one shall work for money, and no one shall work for fame, But each for the joy of working, and each, in his separate star, Shall draw theThing ashesees It for the God of Things as They are!
The tumult and the shouting dies The captains and the kings depart Still standsThine ancient Sacrifice, An humble and a contrite heart. Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet, Lest we forgetlest we forget! See Bible 95:31.
By all ye will or whisper, By all ye leave or do, The silent sullen peoples Shall weigh your God and you.
Whenyou've shouted'Rule Britannia', whenyou've sung 'God save the Queen' When you've finished killing Kruger with your mouth Will you kindly drop a shilling in my little tambourine For a gentleman in Kharki ordered South?
God gives all men all earth to love, But since man's heart is small, Ordains for each one spot shall prove Belove' d over all.
The God who Looks after Small Things had caused the visitor that day to receive two weeks'delayed mails in one.
Oh, Adam was a gardener, and God who made him sees That half a proper gardener's work is done upon his knees, So when your work is finished, you can wash your hands and pray For the Glory of the Garden that it may not pass away! 474
You are ordered abroad as a soldier of the King to help our French comrades against the invasion of a common enemy In this new experience you may find temptations both in wine and women.You must entirely resist both temptations, and while treating all women with perfect courtesy, you should avoid any intimacy.Do your duty bravely. Fear God. Honour the King.
To promote a woman to bear rule, superiority, dominion, or empire above any realm, nation, or city, is repugnant to nature, contumely to God, a thing most contrarious to his revealed will and approved ordinance; and, finally, it isthe subversion of good order, of all equityand justice.
If there be not in her, a proud mind, a crafty wit, and an indurate heart against God and his truth, my judgment faileth me.
Un homme avec Dieu est toujours dans la majorite . One man with God is always a majority.
There was once a man who said 'God Must think it exceedingly odd If he finds that this tree Continues to be When there's no-one about in the Quad.' SeeAnonymous 22:51.
In the name of God, the Merciful, the Compassionate. Praise belongs to God, the Lord of all Being, the All-merciful, the All-compassionate the Master of the Day of Doom. Thee only we serve; toThee alone we pray for succour. Guide us in the straight path, the path of those whomThou hast blessed, not of those against whomThou art wrathful, nor of those who are astray.
And fight in the way of God with those who fight with you, but aggress not: God loves not the aggressors.
It is God who splits the grain and the date-stone, brings forththeliving fromthedead;Hebringsfor thedead too from the living. So that then is God; then how are you perverted? He splits the sky into dawn, and has made the night for a repose, and the sun and moon for a reckoning.
To God belong the Names Most Beautiful; so call Him by them.
O believers, fear God, and be with the truthful ones.
And God summons to the Abode of Peace.
Surely God wrongs not men anything, but themselves men wrong.
Hast thou not seen how God has struck a similitude? A good word is as a good treeits roots are firm, and its branches are inheaven; it gives its produce every season by the leave of its Lord. So God strikes similitudes for men; haply they will remember. And the likeness of a corrupt word is as a corrupt treeuprooted from the earth, having no stablishment.God confirms those who believe with the firm word, in the present life and in the world to come.
God is the Light of the heavens and the earth; the likeness of His Light is as a niche wherein is a lamp (the lamp in a glass, the glass as it were a glittering star) kindled froma Blessed Tree, anolivethat isneitherof the East nor of the West whose oil wellnigh would shine, even if no fire touched it; Light upon Light; (God guides to His Light whom He will). (And God strikes similitudes for men, and God has knowledge of everything.)
O mankind,We have created you male and female, and appointed you races and tribes, that you may know one another. Surely the noblest among you in the sight of God is the most godfearing of you.God is All-knowing, All-aware.
Benot as those who forgot God, and so He caused them to forget their souls.
God made the integers, man made the rest.
A tragic writer does not have to believe in God, but he must believe in man.
L'impossibilite o u' je suis de prouver que Dieu n'est pas me de couvre son existence. The impossibility I find myself in to prove that God does not exist proves to me his existence.
I cannot tell where you should look for me, if you send out any pinnace to seek me; because I live at the devotion of the wind and seas. And thus fare you well; desiring God to send us a merry meeting in this world, if it be his good will and pleasure.
Not Eve, whose fault was only too much love, Which made her give this present to her dear, That what she tasted he likewise might prove, Whereby his knowledge might become more clear; He never sought her weakness to reprove With those sharp words which he of God did hear; Yet men will boast of knowledge, which he took From Eve's fair hand, as from a learned book.
You have to have something vicious in you to be a creative writer God save me from being 'nice'.
The day consists of twenty-four hours only. This regulates the size of the house and the ro" le it has to fulfil. For the twenty-four hour day is short, and our acts and thoughts are spurred on by time. If we were taught to regard the hand of the clock as a beneficent but implacable god, we should order our lives more rationally.
God is love, but get it in writing.
When either the political or the scientific discourse announces itself as the voice of reason, it is playing God, and should be spanked and stood in the corner.
He was God out there. He wanted it a certain way, that was the MGM style, and that's what you got.
How glorious it would be in the eyes of God and men, if we managed to hunt the Catholics from England, follow them to France, and, like the bold King of Sweden, rouse the Protestants in France, plant our religion in Paris by agreement or force, and go from there to Rome to chase the Antichrist and burn the town whence superstition comes.
With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow and his orphan, to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and and lasting peace among ourselves, and with all nations.
Booth died blind and still by faith he trod, Eyes still dazzled by the ways of God.
A bit like God confessing he'd never gotten the hang of the thunderstorms.
I like that ancient Saxon phrase, which calls, The burial-ground God's-Acre.
How could God do this to me after all I have done for him?
Ez fer war, I call it murder, There you hev it plain an'flat; I don't want to go no furder Than myTestyment fer that; God hez sed so plump an'fairly, It's ez long ez it is broad, An' you've gut to git up airly Ef you want to take in God.
But I suppose even God was born too late to trust the old religion all those settings out that never left the ground, beginning in wisdom, dying in doubt.
Hier stehe ich. Ich kann nicht anders. Gott helfe mir. Amen. Here I stand; I can do no other; God help me; Amen.
It is better that all of these peasants should be killed rather than that the sovereigns and magistrates should be destroyed, because the peasants take up the sword without God's authority.
Wo rauff du nudein Hertz engest und verlessest, das ist eygentlich dein Gott. Whatever your heart clings to and confides in, that is really your God.
I now close my military career and just fade away, an old soldier whotried to dohis dutyas Godgavehimthelight to see that duty.
Gentlemen know that fresh air should be kept in its proper placeout of doorsand that,God having given us indoors and out-of-doors, we should not attempt to do away with that distinction.
Here lie I, Martin Elginbrodde: Hae mercy o'my soul, Lord God; As I wad do, were I Lord God, And ye were Martin Elginbrodde.
The love of our neighbour is the only door out of the dungeon of self, where we mope and mow, striking sparks, and rubbing phosphorescence out of the walls, and blowing our own breath in our own nostrils, instead of issuing to the fair sunlight of God, the sweet winds of the universe.
I don't believe in the Hebrew God, some big hairy bastard with thunderbolts.
To put labour and wages first and human ordomestic life second is to invert the order of God and of nature.
It was the hand of God.
Je n'ai plus ni pe' re, ni me' re, Ni s½ur, ni fre' re Sinon Dieu seul auquel j'espe' re. I no longer have a father, nor a mother, Nor a sister, nor a brother. I only have God to trust in. 549
Qui Deus a dune esci e« nce e de parler bone eloquence, ne s'en deit taisir ne celer, ainz se deit voluntiers mustrer. Whoever God has given knowledge and eloquence in speaking, should not be silent or secretive, but should willingly show it.
A god is not so glorious as a king. I think the pleasure they enjoy in Heaven, Cannot compare with kingly joys in earth. To wear a crown enchased with pearl and gold, Whose virtues carry with it life and death; To ask and have, command and be obeyed; When looks breed love, with looks to gain the prize, Such power attractive shines in princes'eyes!
Now hast thou but one bare hour to live, And then thou must be damned perpetually! Stand still, you ever-moving spheres of heaven, That time may cease, and midnight never come. Fair nature's eye, rise, rise, again, and make Perpetual day; or let this hour be but Ayear, a month, a week, a natural day, That Faustus may repent and save his soul! O lente, lente currite, noctis equi: The stars move still, time runs, the clock will strike, The devil will come, and Faustus must be damned. Oh, I'll leap up to my God!Who pulls me down? See, see, where Christ's blood streams in the firmament! One drop would save my soul, half a drop, ah, my Christ.
Why, this is hell, nor am I out of it: Thinkst thou that I who saw the face of God, And tasted the eternal joys of heaven, Am not tormented with ten thousand hells In being deprived of everlasting bliss!
God grant that we may not have a European war thrust upon us, and for such a stupid reason too, no I don't mean stupid, but to have to go to war on account of tiresome Serbia beggars belief.
Oh God! that man should be a thing for immortal souls to sieve through!
Let me look into a human eye; it is better than to gaze into sea or sky; better than to gaze upon God.
This is not a book in the ordinary sense of the word. No, this is a prolonged insult, a gob of spit inthe face of Art, a kick in the pants to God, Man, Destiny,Time, Love, Beautywhat you will. I am going to sing for you, a little off-key perhaps, but I will sing.
Asgood almost kill a man as kill a good book: who kills a Comus, A Mask man kills a reasonable creature,God's image; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were in the eye.
When God gave [Adam] reason, hegave him freedomto choose, for reason is but choosing; he had been else a mere artificial Adam.
We ourselves esteem not of that obedience, or love, or gift, which is of force: God therefore let him free, set before him a provoking object, ever almost in his eyes; herein consisted his merit, herein the right of his reward, the praise of his abstinence.
God is decreeing to begin some newand great period in his Church, even to the reforming of Reformation itself. What does he then but reveal Himself to his servants, and as his manner is, first to his Englishmen?
When I consider how my light is spent, E're half my days, in this dark world and wide, And that one talent which is death to hide, Lodg'd with me useless, though my soul more bent To serve therewith my Maker, and present My true account, least he returning chide, Doth God exact day-labour, light denied, I fondly ask; But patience to prevent That murmur, soon replies,God doth not need Either man's work or his own gifts, who best Bear his mild yoke, they serve him best, his state Is kingly. Thousands at his bidding speed And post o'er land and ocean without rest: Theyalso serve who only stand and wait.
And chiefly thou O spirit, that does prefer Before all temples th'upright heart and pure, Instruct me, for thou know'st; thou from the first Wast present, and with mighty wings outspread Dove-like sat'st brooding on the vast abyss And mad'st it pregnant: what in me is dark Illumine, what is low raise and support; That to the highth of this great argument I mayassert Eternal Providence, And justify the ways of God to men. 580
Meanwhile the Adversary of God and man, Satan with thoughts inflamed of highest design, Puts on swift wings, and towards the gates of hell Explores his solitary flight.
For neither man nor angel can discern Hypocrisy, the only evil that walks Invisible, except to God alone, By his permissive will, through heav'n and earth.
Though both Not equal, as their sex not equal seemed; For contemplation he and valour formed, For softness she and sweet attractive grace, He for God only, she for God in him.
God is thy law, thou mine: to know no more Is woman's happiest knowledge and her praise. With thee conversing I forget all time.
God made thee perfect, not immutable.
Servant of God, well done, well hast thou fought The better fight.
He took the golden compasses, prepared In God's eternal store, to circumscribe This universe, and all created things: One foot he centred, and the other turned Round through the vast profundity obscure, And said,'Thus far extend, thus far thy bounds This be thy just circumference,O world.'
Love was not in their looks, either to God Or to each other.
O why did God, Creator wise, that peopled highest heav'n With Spirits masculine, create at last This novelty on earth, this fair defect Of nature, and not fill the world at once With men as angels without feminine, Or find some other way to generate Mankind?
This having learnt, thou hast attained the sum Of wisdom; hope no higher, though all the stars Thou knew'st by name, and all th'ethereal powers, All secrets of the deep, all nature's works, Or works of God in heav'n, air, earth, or sea, And all the riches of this world enjoy'dst, And all the rule, one empire; onlyadd Deeds to thy knowledge answerable, add faith, Add virtue, patience, temperance, add love, By name to come called charity, the soul Of all the rest: then wilt thou not be loath To leave this Paradise, but shalt possess A paradise within thee, happier far.
O loss of sight, of thee I most complain! Blind among enemies,O worse than chains, Dungeon, or beggary, or decrepit age! Light the prime work of God to me is extinct, And all her various objects of delight Annull'd, which might in part my grief have eas'd, Inferior to the vilest now become Of man or worm; the vilest here excel me, They creep, yet see, I dark in light expos'd To daily fraud, contempt, abuse and wrong, 586 Within doors, or without, still as a fool, In power of others, never in my own; Scarce half I seem to live, dead more than half.
Just are the ways of God, And justifiable to men; Unless there be who think not God at all.
God of our Fathers, what is man! That thou towards him with hand so various, Or might I say contrarious, Temperst thy providence through his short course, Not evenly, as thou rul'st The angelic orders and inferior creatures mute, Irrational and brute.
I'm going to live through this, and when it's over, I'm nevergoing tobe hungryagain.No, noranyof my folks.If I have to steal or killas God is my witness, I'm never going to be hungry again.
As the god of contemporary man's idolatry, science is a two-handed engine, and as such science is too important a human activity to leave to the scientists.
Si les triangles faisaient un dieu, ils lui donneraient trois co" te s. If triangles had made a god, it would have three sides.
The law of Moses is harsh and severe, as for an enslaved and stubborn people, but it punishes theft with a fine, not death. Let us not think that in his new law of mercy, where he treats us with the tenderness of a father,God has given us greater license to be cruel to one another.
But plots come fromGod knows where. They can't be summoned at will.Theycome reluctantly, unexpectedly, stealthily, when you have given up hope of them ever paying you a visit.
It is on occasions such as these that I thank God for my sanguine temperament, which refuses to allow me to believe in disaster until it is finally manifest.
God in His wisdom made the fly And then forgot to tell us why.
Glorious things of thee are spoken, Zion, city of our God!
Gott ist tot: aber so wie die Art der Menschen ist, wird es vielleicht nochJahrtausende lang H o« hlen geben, in denen man seinen Schatten zeigt.Und wirwir mu« ssen auch noch seinen Schatten besiegen! God is dead; but given the way of men, there may still be caves for thousands of years inwhich his shadow will be shown.And wewe still have to vanquish his shadow, too.
Shakespearethe nearest thing in incarnation to the eye of God.
When men make gods, there is no God!
He was an embittered atheist (the sort of atheist who doesnot so much disbelieve in God as personallydislike Him), and took a sort of pleasure in thinking that human affairs would never improve.
Yiddish is a household tongue, and God, like other members of the family, is sweetly informal in it.
All those writers who write about their childhood! Gentle God, if I wrote about mine you wouldn't sit in the same room with me.
Pesons le gain et la perte, en prenant croix que Dieu est. Estimons ces deux cas: si vous gagnez, vous gagnez tout; si vous perdez, vous ne perdez rien.Gagezdonc qu'il est, sans he siter. Let us weigh up the gain and loss involved in calling heads that God exists. Let us assess thetwo cases: if you winyou win everything, if you lose you lose nothing.Do not hesitate then; wager that he does exist.
Il est non seulement impossible, mais inutile de conna|"tre Dieu sans Je sus-Christ. It is not only impossible, but also useless to recognize God without Jesus.
. Dieu d'Abraham, Dieu d'Isaac, Dieu de Jacob, non des philosophes et savants. Certitude. Certitude. Sentiment. Joie. Paix. .God of Abraham,God of Isaac,God of Jacob, not of the philosophers and scholars.Certainty.Certainty. Feeling.Joy. Peace.
No writer, sacred or profane, ever uses the words 'he'or 'him'of the soul. It is always 'she'or 'her'; so universal is theintuitive knowledgethatthesoul, with regard to God who is her life, is feminine.
Those who know God know that it is a quite a mistaketo suppose that there are only five senses.
Football is like a religion to me. I worship the ball, and I treat it like a god. Too many players thinkof a football as something to kick.They should be taught to caress it and to treat it like a precious gem.
A silk suit, which cost memuchmoney, and Ipray God to make me able to pay for it.
Unlike God the artist does not start with nothing and make something of it. He starts with himself as nothing and makes something of the nothing with the things at hand.
God is really onlyanother artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant, and the cat. He has no real style. He just goes on trying other things.
God is a geometrician.
Now it istimethat we were going,Ito die and you to live, but which of us has the happier prospect is unknown to anyone but God.
He who cheats with an oath acknowledges that he is afraid of his enemy, but that he thinks little of God.
When men grow virtuous in their old age, they only make a sacrifice to God of the devil's leavings.
Eye Nature's walks, shoot Folly as it flies, And catch the Manners living as they rise. Laugh where we must, be candid where we can; But vindicate the ways of God to man. See Milton 580:93.
Who sees with equal eye, as God of all, A hero perish, or a sparrow fall, Atoms or systems into ruin hurled, And now a bubble burst, and now a world.
All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body, Nature is, and God the soul. 660
Know then thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man. Placed on this isthmus of a middle state, A being darkly wise, and rudely great: With too much knowledge for the sceptic side, With too much weakness for the stoic's pride, He hangs between; in doubt to act or rest, In doubt to deem himself a god, or beast; In doubt his mind or body to prefer, Born but to die, and reas'ning but to err; Alike in ignorance, his reason such, Whether he thinks too little, or too much.
Know then thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man. Placed on this isthmus of a middle state, A being darkly wise, and rudely great: With too much knowledge for the sceptic side, With too much weakness for the stoic's pride, He hangs between; in doubt to act or rest, In doubt to deem himself a god, or beast; In doubt his mind or body to prefer, Born but to die, and reas'ning but to err; Alike in ignorance, his reason such, Whether he thinks too little, or too much.
Thus God and nature linked the gen'ral frame, And bade self-love and social be the same.
A wit's a feather, and a chief a rod; An honest man's the noblest work of God.
Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, But looks thro' Nature, up to Nature's God.
The people's voice is odd, It is, and it is not, the voice of God.
Yes, I am proud; I must be proud to see Men not afraid of God, afraid of me.
If the ocean was pure mind and I was a wave, I would be in terror if Itried to distinguish myself fromthe water that produced me.What is a wave without water, and what is a mind without God?
Not as we wanted it, But as God granted it.
I shall never be persuaded that God hath shut up all light of learning within the lantern of Aristotle's brain.
God have mercy on the sinner Who must write with no dinner, No gravy and no grub, No pewter and no pub, No bellyand no bowels, Only consonants and vowels.
I'm Jewish. I don't work out. If God had wanted us to bend over he'd've put diamonds on the floor.
The world isa kind of kindergarten, where millions of bewildered infants are trying to spell God with the wrong blocks.
Jesus never claims to be God, personally, yet he always claims to bring God, completely.
God bless our good and gracious King Whose promise none relies on, Who never said a foolish thing Nor ever did a wise one.
In the future days, which we seek to make secure, we look forward to a world founded upon four essential freedoms.The first isfreedom of speech and expression, everywhere in the world.The second is the freedom of every person to worship God in his own way, everywhere in the world.The third is freedom from want The fourth is freedom from fear.
I do not see them here; but after death God knows I know the faces I shall see, Each one a murdered self, with low last breath. 'I am thyself,what hast thou done to me?' 'And Iand Ithyself,' (lo! each one saith,) 'And thou thyself to all eternity!'
So l o yo entiendo lo lejos que esta el cielo de nosotros; pero conozco co mo acortar las veredas.Todo consiste en morir, Dios mediante, cuando unoquiera y no cuando EŁ l lo disponga. O, si t u quieres, forzarlo a disponer antes de tiempo. I know how far away Heaven is, all right, but I know the shortcuts.You just die,God willing, when you want to, not when He arranges it.Or if you want you can make Him arrange it earlier.
Those who dare to interpret God's will must never claim Him as an asset for one nation or group rather than another.War springs from the love and loyalty that should be offered to God being applied to some God substituteoneofthemostdangerousbeing nationalism.
Theartist needsbut a roof, a crust of bread, and his easel, and all therest Godgiveshim inabundance.Hemust live to paint and not paint to live.
After the destructionofthe Second Temple Jewslived by an ancient and fundamental insight, that God does not live in buildings but in the human heart.
Wesitand lookout attheboysintheir happy playwe kneel still with one little cheek wistfully pressed against the paneand we go and stand before the glass.We see the complexion we were not to spoil, and the white frock Then the curse begins to act upon us. It finishes its work when we are grown women, who no more look out wistfullyat a more healthy life; we are contented.We fit our sphere as a Chinese woman's foot fits her shoe, exactly, as though God made bothand yet he knows nothing of either.
Great God! This is anawful place and terrible enough for us to have laboured to it without the reward of priority.
God is our refuge and our strength, in straits a present aid; Therefore, although the earth remove, we will not be afraid.
All people that on earth do dwell, Sing to the Lord with cheerful voice. Him serve with mirth, his praise forth tell, Come ye before him and rejoice. Know that the Lord is God indeed; Without our aid he did us make: We are his folk, he doth us feed, And for his sheep he doth us take.
For those who believe in God no explanation is necessary. For those who do not believe in God no explanation is possible.
The Awful RowingToward God.
God owns heaven but He craves the earth.
On his brow this mark I saw '!'
Peace is in the grave. The grave hides all things beautiful and good: I am a God and cannot find it there.
For I will consider my cat Jeoffry. For he is the servant of the Living God dulyand daily serving him. For at the first glance of the glory of God in the East he worships in his way.
Glorious the northern lights astream; Glorious the song, when God's the theme; Glorious the thunder's roar: Glorious hosanna from the den; Glorious the catholic amen; Glorious the martyr's gore.
And she, being old, fed from a mashed plate as an old mare might droop across a fence to the dull pastures of her ignorance. Her husband held her upright while he prayed to God who is all-forgiving to send down some angel somewhere who might land perhaps in his foreign wings among the gradual crops. She munched, half dead, blindly searching the spoon.
Private Means is dead God rest his soul, officers and fellow-rankers said.
Take short views, hope for the best, and trust in God.
Immortal, invisible,God only wise, In light inaccessible hid from our eyes, Most blesse' d, most glorious, the Ancient of Days, Almighty, victorious,Thy great name we praise.
In the days of my youth I remembered my God! And He hath not forgotten myage.
Of all God's works, which do this world adorn, There is no one more fair and excellent, Then is mans body both for power and form, Whiles it is kept in sober government.
Quicquid est, in Deo est, et nihil sine Deo esse necque concipi potest. Whatever is, is in God, and nothing can exist or be conceived without God.
Summum Mentis bonum est Dei cognitio, et summa Mentis virtus Deum cognoscere. The greatest good of the mind is the knowledge of God, and the greatest virtue of the mind is to know God.
Ex tertio cognitionis genere oritur necessarioAmor Dei intellectualis. From the third kind of knowledge [intuition] arises necessarily the intellectual love of God.
Per Deum intelligo ens absolute infinitum, hoc est, substantiam constantem infinitis attributis, quorum unumquodque aeternam et infinitam essentiam exprimit. By God I mean a being absolutely infinitethat is, a substance consisting in infinite attributes, of which each expresses eternal and infinite essentiality.
I would have run to him, only I was a coward in the presence of such a mobwould have embraced him, only, he being an Englishman, I did not know how he would receive me; so I did what cowardice and false pride suggested was the best thingwalked deliberately to him, took off my hat, and said: 'Dr Livingstone, I presume?' 'Yes,'said he, with a kind smile, lifting his cap slightly. I replace my hat on my head, and he puts on his cap, and we both grasp hands, and I then sayaloud: 'I thank God,Doctor, I have been permitted to see you.' He answered,'I feel thankful that I am here to welcome you.'
What would happen ifmen could menstruate and women could not? Clearly, menstruationwould become an enviable, boast-worthy, masculine event: Men would brag about how long and how much.Young boys would talk about it as the envied beginning of manhood Generals, right-wing politicians, and religious fundamentalists would cite 'mens-truation'as proof that only men could serve God and country in combat If men could menstruate, the power justifications would go on and on. If we let them.
Where God's presence is no longer a tenable proposition and where his absence is no longer a felt, indeed overwhelming weight, certain dimensions of thought and creativity are no longer attainable.
In the realm of science, all attempts to find any evidence of supernatural beings, of metaphysical concepts, as God, immortality, infinity, etc have thus far failed, and if we are honest, we must confess that in science there exists no God, no immortality, no soul or mind, as distinct from the body.
Grand Dieu! Pourquoi suis-je moi? Great God! Why am I me?
God tempers the wind, said Maria, to the shorn lamb.
After one has abandoned a belief in God, poetry is the essence which takes its place as life's redemption.
For God's sake give me the young man who has brains enough to make a fool of himself!
Yet her conception of God was certainly not orthodox. She felt towards Him as she might have felt towards a glorified sanitary engineer; and in some of her speculations she seems hardly to distinguish between the Deity and the Drains.
Waste of Blood, and waste of Tears, Waste of youth's most precious years, Waste of ways the saints have trod, Waste of Glory, waste of God, War!
O Domine Deus! speravi inTe; O care miJesu! nunc libera me; In dura catena, in misera poena, DesideroTe, Languendo, gemendo, et genu flectendo Adoro, imploro, ut liberes me! O Lord my God, I hope in thee; My dear Lord Jesus, set me free; In chains, in pains On bended knee I adore thee, implore thee To set me free.
And soft as lips that laugh and hide The laughing leaves of the tree divide, And screen from seeing and leave in sight The god pursuing, the maiden hid.
Ah, yet would God this flesh of mine might be Where air might wash and long leaves cover me; Where tides of grass break into foam of flowers, Or where the wind's feet shine along the sea.
Yea, is not even Apollo, with hair and harpstring of gold, A bitter God to follow, a beautiful God to behold?
But God, if a God there be, is the substance of men which is man.
As a god self-slain on his own strange altar, Death lies dead.
Faith gives new light to the soul, but it does not put our eyes out; and what God hathgivenusinournature could never be intended as a snare to Religion, or engage us to believe a lie.
Who trusted God was love indeed And love Creation's final law Though Nature, red in tooth and claw With ravine, shrieked against his creed.
That nothing walks with aimless feet; That not one life shall be destroyed, Or cast as rubbish to the void, When God hath made the pile complete.
The great world's altar-stairs That slope through darkness up to God.
Man, her last work, who seemed so fair, Such splendid purpose in his eyes, Who rolled the psalm to wintry skies, Who built him fanes of fruitless prayer, Who trusted God was love indeed And love Creation's final law Though Nature, red in tooth and claw With ravine, shrieked against his creed.
God's finger touched him, and he slept.
One God, one law, one element, And one far-off divine event, To which the whole creation moves.
Who never sold the truth to serve the hour, Nor paltered with Eternal God of power.
Ah God, for a man with heart, head, hand, Like some of the simple great ones gone For ever and ever by, One still strong man in a blatant land, Whatever they call him, what care I, Aristocrat, democrat, autocratone Who can rule and dare not lie.
It is better to fight for the good, than to rail at the ill; I have felt with my native land, I am one with my kind, I embrace the purpose of God, and the doom assigned.
Man's word is God in man.
The old order changeth, yielding place to new, And God fulfils himself in many ways, Lest one good custom should corrupt the world.
If thou shouldst never see my face again, Pray for my soul. More things are wrought by prayer Than this world dreams of.Wherefore, let thy voice Rise like a fountain for me night and day. For what are men better than sheep or goats That nourish a blind life within the brain, If, knowing God, they lift not hands of prayer Both for themselves and those who call them friend? For so the whole round earth is every way Bound by gold chains about the feet of God.
At Flores in the Azores Sir Richard Grenville lay, And a pinnace, like a fluttered bird, came flying from far away: 'Spanishships of warat sea! Wehavesighted fifty-three!' Then sware Lord Thomas Howard: ''Fore God I am no coward; But I cannot meetthem here, for my ships are out of gear, And the half my men are sick. I must fly, but followquick. Wearesix ships oftheline; canwefight withfifty-three?' Then spake Sir Richard Grenville: 'I know you are no coward; You fly them for a moment to fight with them again. But I've ninety men and more that are lying sick ashore. I should count myself the coward if I left them, my Lord Howard, To these Inquisition dogs and the devildoms of Spain.' So Lord Howard passed away with five ships of war that day, Till he melted like a cloud in the silent summer heaven.
'Sink me the ship, Master Gunnersink her, split her in twain! Fall into the hands of God, not into the hands of Spain!' And the gunner said 'Ay, ay,' but the seamen made reply: 'We have children we have wives, And the Lord hath spared our lives.'
We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness.God is the friend of silence. See how naturetrees, flowers, grassgrows in silence; see the stars, themoon and thesun, how they move insilence We need silence to be able to touch souls.
These poems, with all their crudities, doubts, and confusions, are written for the love of Man, and in praise of God, and I'd be a damn'fool if they weren't.
You're thinking, you're no better than you should be, Polly, and that's good enough for me.Oh, isn't life a terrible thing, thank God?
Prompt me,God, But not yet.When I speak Though it be you who speak Through me, something is lost. The meaning is the waiting.
We are beginning to see now it is matter is the scaffolding of spirit; that the poet emerges from morphemes and phonemes; that as form in sculpture is the prisoner of the hard rock, so in everyday life it is the plain facts and natural happenings that conceal God and reveal him to us little by little under the mind's tooling.
There is no expeditious road To pack and label men for God, And save them by the barrel-load, Some may perchance, with strange surprise, Have blundered into Paradise.
A little round, fat, oily man of God, Was one I chiefly marked among the fry: He had a roguish twinkle in his eye.
Men reverence one another, not yet God.
Every man is the builder of a temple, called his body, to thegod he worships, aftera style purely his own, norcan he get off by hammering marble instead.We are all sculptors and painters, and our material is our own flesh and blood and bones.
'For God, for Country and for Yale', the outstanding single anti-climax in the English language.
God tells me how he wants this music playedand you get in his way.
In general the churchesbore for me the same relation to God that billboards did to Coca-Cola: they promoted thirst without quenching it.
Dieu cre a l'homme, et ne le trouvant pas assez seul, il lui donne une compagne pour lui faire mieux sentir sa solitude. God created man and, finding him not sufficientlyalone, gave him a companion to make him feel his solitude more keenly.
Yo nac | un d|a que Dios estuvo enfermo. I was born on a day God was sick.
Man is the shuttle, to whose winding quest And passage through these looms God ordered motion, but ordained no rest.
Vae, puto deus fio. Dear me, I must be turning into a god.
Dieu n'est pas pour les gros bataillons, mais pour ceux qui tirent le mieux. God is on the side not of the big battalions, but of the best shots.
Si Dieu n'existait pas, il faudrait l'inventer. If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
She say,Celie, tell the truth, have you ever found God in church? I never did. I just found a bunch of folks hoping for himtoshow. Any God I ever felt in church I brought in with me. And I think all the other folks did too. They come to church to share God, not find God.
God isregistered tovote for Hollywood as a Republican. However,Jesus Christ is a Democrat from Santa Monica.
The Bishop gave vent to a long-drawn sigh. 'Did it ever occur to you to wonder why God created women?' he asked.'It's the one thing that tempts me at times to doubt His infinite goodness and wisdom.'
Ja" leider desn mac nicht ges|"n, Das guot und wertlich e" re Und gotes hulde me" re Zesamene in ein herze komen. It is sadly impossible For wealth and a good name, along with God's favour, to be united in one heart.
But God, who is ableto prevail, wrestled with him, as the Angel did with Jacob, and marked him; marked him for his own.
An excellent angler, and now with God. 888
The time is now near at hand which must probably determine whether Americans are to be freemen or slaves The fate of unborn millions will now depend, under God, on the courage and conduct of this army.Our cruel and unrelenting enemy leaves us only the choice of brave resistance or abject submission.We have, therefore, to resolve to conquer or die.
Our God, our help in ages past Our hope for years to come, Our shelter from the stormy blast And our eternal home.
Woman to man Is either a God or a wolfe.
The beauty of the world is almost the only way by which we can allow God to penetrate usthe beauty of the world isthe commonest, easiest and most natural way of approach.
One might lay down as a postulate: All conceptions of God whichare incompatible with themovement of pure charity are false.
In this House, which is termed a place of free speech, there is nothing so necessary for the preservation of the Prince and State as free speech; and without it, it is a scorn and a mockery to call it a Parliament House, for in truth it is none but a very school of flatteryand dissimulation, and so fit a place to serve the devil and his angels in, and not to glorify God and benefit the Commonwealth.
Hark! how all the welkin rings, Glory to the King of kings. Peace on earth and mercy mild, God and sinners reconciled.
Thou hidden love of God, whose height, Whose depth unfathomed no man knows, I see from far thy beauteous light, Only I sigh for thy repose.
I have none of the infirmities of old age, and have lost several I had in my youth. The grand cause is, the good pleasure of God, who does whatever pleases him. The chief means are:1. My constantly rising at four, for about fifty years. 2. My generally preaching at five in the morning; one of the most healthy exercises in the world. 3. My never travelling less, by sea or land, than four thousand five hundred miles in a year.
The best of all is,God is with us!
The worship of God is not a rule of safetyit is an adventure of thespirit, a flight after theunattainable.The death of religion comes with the repression of the high hope of adventure.
The essence of Christianity is the appeal to the life of Christ as a revelation of the nature of God and of his agency in the world. The record is fragmentary, inconsistent and uncertain But there can be no doubt as to the elements in the record that have evoked the best in human nature. The Mother, the Child and the bare manger: the lowly man, homeless and self- forgetful, with his message of peace, love and sympathy: the suffering, the agony, the tender words as life ebbed, the final despair: and the whole with the authority of supreme victory.
We may say 'God Save the Queen', because nothing will save the Governor-General Maintain your rage and your enthusiasm for the election now to be held and until polling day.
I have said that the soul is not more than the body, And I have said that the body is not more than the soul, And nothing, not God, isgreater to onethanone's self is.
Weary men, what reap ye?Golden corn for the stranger. What sow ye?Human corpses that wait for the avenger. Fainting forms, hunger stricken, what see ye in the offing? Stately ships to bear our food away, amid the stranger's scoffing. There's a proud array of soldierswhat do they round your door? They guard our master'sgranaries from the thin hands of the poor. Pale mothers, wherefore weeping? Would to God that we were dead Ourchildren swoon before us, and we cannot give them bread.
We're all of us guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress.
The feelings withwhichwe facethisnewage of right and opportunity sweep across our heartstrings like some air out of God's own presence, where justice and mercyare reconciled, and the judge and the brother are one.
Now thank we all our God, With heart and hands and voices, Who wondrous things hath done, In whom his world rejoices; Who from our mother's arms Hath blessed us on our way With countless gifts of love, And still is ours to-day.
Always a godfather, never a god!
Just what God would do if he had the money.
Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting: The soul that rises with us, our life's star, Hath had elsewhere its setting, And cometh from afar: Not in entire forgetfulness And not in utter nakedness, But trailing clouds of glory do we come From God, who is our home: Heaven lies about us in our infancy! Shades of the prison-house begin to close Upon the growing boy, But he beholds the light, and whence it flows, He sees it in his joy; The youth, who daily farther from the east Must travel, still is nature's priest, And by the vision splendid Is on his wayattended; At length the man perceives it die away, And fade into the light of common day.
Rose of all Roses,Rose of all the World! The tall thought-woven sails, that flap unfurled Above the tide of hours, trouble the air, And God's bell buoyed to be the water's care.
Only God, my dear, Could love you for yourself alone And not your yellow hair.
Que le Dieu qui nous tue nous vienne en aide! God who kills us, come to our rescue!
America is God's Crucible, the great Melting Pot where all the races of Europe are melting and re-forming God is making the American.
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