maker quotes

And is it true? And is it true, This most tremendous tale of all, Seen in a stained-glass window's hue, A Baby in an ox's stall? The Maker of the stars and sea Become a Child on earth for me?

- SirJohn Betjeman
  A Few Late Chrysanthemums,'Christmas'.

Shall mortal man be more just than God? shall a man be more pure than his maker?

-Bible (Old Testament)
Job 4:17.

Woe unto him that striveth with his Maker! Let the potsherd strive with the potsherds of the earth. Shall the clay say to him that fashioneth it,What makest thou? or thy work, He hath no hands?

-Bible (Old Testament)
Isaiah 45:9.

When I feel the urge to compose, I begin byappealing directly to my Maker and I first ask Him the three most important questions pertaining to our life here in this worldwhence, wherefore, whither.

-Johannes Brahms
Quoted in  A Hopkins Music  All  Around Me (1967).

Go, litel bok, go, litel myn tragedye, Ther God thi makere yet, er that he dye, So sende myght to make in som comedye!

- Geoffrey Chaucer
c.1385  Troilus and Criseyde, bk.5, l.1786^8.

Iamready tomeet mymaker.Whether mymaker isready for the ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

- Lord Randolph Henry Spencer Churchill
  Speech, Nov.

I hope to meet my Maker brow to brow And find my own the higher.

- Frances ne  e Darwin Cornford
  'Epitaph for a Reviewer'.

Then Israel's monarch, after Heaven's own heart, His vigorous warmth did, variously, impart To wives and slaves: and, wide as his command, Scattered his Maker's image through the land.

-John Dryden
Absalom and  Achitophel, pt.1, l.7^10.  An oblique reference to Charles II, who had no legitimate, but many illegitimate, children.

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.

-John Milton
c.1652  Sonnets, no.16,'When I Consider'.

   Let them bestow on every airth a limb, Then open all my veins that I may swim To thee, my Maker, in that crimson lake; Then place my parboiled head upon a stake, Scatter my ashes, strew them in the air Lord! since thou knowest where all these atoms are, I'm hopeful thou'lt recover once my dust, And confident thou'lt raise me with the just.

-James Graham, 1st Marquis of Montrose
  'Lines Composed on the Eve of his Execution'.

Suppose I had found a watch upon the ground, and it should be enquired how the watch happened to be in that place† The inference, we think, is inevitable; that the watch must have had a maker, that there must have existed, at some time and at some place or other, an artificer or artificers, who formed it for the purpose whichwe find it actually toanswer; who comprehended its construction, and designed its use.

-William Paley
  NaturalTheology, ch.1.

Every man is the maker of his own fortune

- Gertrude Stein
  In theTatler, no.52, 9 Aug.