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After one has abandoned a belief in God, poetry is the essence which takes its place as life's redemption.

—Stevens,Wallace

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.

—Clare,John

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.

—Milton,John

And Moses hid his face; for he was afraid to look upon God.

—Bible (Old Testament)

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,öwhat hast thou done to me?' 'And Iöand Iöthyself,' (lo! each one saith,) 'And thou thyself to all eternity!'

—Rossetti, Dante Gabriel

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, autocratöone Who can rule and dare not lie.

—Tennyson

   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.

—Wilson, (Thomas) Woodrow

One might lay down as a postulate: All conceptions of God whichare incompatible with themovement of pure charity are false.

—Weil, Simone

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—Kahn, Gus

The beauty of the world is almost the only way by which we can allow God to penetrate us†the beauty of the world isthe commonest, easiest and most natural way of approach.

—Weil, Simone

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.

—Book of Common Prayer

Almighty God, the fountain of all goodness.

—Book of Common Prayer

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.

—Book of Common Prayer

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.

—Zangwill, Israel

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.

—Yeats,W(illiam) B(utler)

Not as we wanted it, But as God granted it.

—Quiller-Couch, SirArthurThomas known as  'Q'

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 killöas God is my witness, I'm never going to be hungry again.

—Mitchell, Margaret

The Church knows nothing of a sacredness of war. The Church which prays'Our Father'asks God only for peace.

—Bonhoeffer, Dietrich

For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels of God in heaven.

—Bible (NewTestament)

Wesit†and lookout attheboysintheir happy play†we kneel still with one little cheek wistfully pressed against the pane†and 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 bothöand yet he knows nothing of either.

—Iron

Many people believe that theyare attracted by God, or by Nature, when theyare only repelled by man.

—Inge,William Ralph

Of Consciousness, her awful Mate The soul cannot be ridö As easy the secreting her Behind the Eyes of God.

—Dickinson, Emily Elizabeth

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.

—Book of Common Prayer

Benot as those who forgot God, and so He caused them to forget their souls.

—The Koran

If you get simple beauty and naught else, You get about the best thing God invents.

—Browning, Robert

Let me look into a human eye; it is better than to gaze into sea or sky; better than to gaze upon God.

—Melville, Herman

It were better to have no opinion of God at all than such an opinion as is unworthy of him.

—Bacon, Francis,Viscount St Albans

A bit like God confessing he'd never gotten the hang of the thunderstorms.

—Loengard,John Borg

Yea, is not even Apollo, with hair and harpstring of gold, A bitter God to follow, a beautiful God to behold?

—Swinburne, Algernon Charles

Come; and strong within us Stir theVikings' blood; Bracing brain and sinew; Blow, thou wind of God!

—Kingsley, Charles

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.

—Tennyson

Earth's crammed with heaven, And every common bush afire with God.

—Browning, Elizabeth ne¤  e Barrett

  There, but for the grace of God, goes God.

—Churchill, Lord Randolph Henry Spencer

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 infiniteöthat is, a substance consisting in infinite attributes, of which each expresses eternal and infinite essentiality.

—Spinoza, Baruch also known as Benedict de Spinoza

'By God,'quod he,'for pleynly, at a word, Thy drasty rymyng is nat worth a toord!'

—Chaucer, Geoffrey

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

—Bible (Old Testament)

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!

—Kipling, (Joseph) Rudyard

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.

—Donne,John

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.

—Pascal, Blaise

   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.

—Bible (NewTestament)

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.

—Byron, Robert

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!

—Cowper,William

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.

—Eliot,T(homas) S(tearns)

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.

—Thomas, R(onald) S(tuart)

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.

—Knox,John

Booth died blind and still by faith he trod, Eyes still dazzled by the ways of God.

—Lindsay, (Nicholas) Vachel

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?

—St Aidan

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.

—Washington, BookerTaliaferro

He desired all beautiful thingsöeven God.

—Chesterton, G(ilbert) K(eith)

  The dice of God are always loaded.

—Emerson, RalphWaldo

I am as content to die for God's eternal truth on the scaffold as in any other way.

—Brown,John

My God, my God, thou art a direct God, may I not saya literal God† But thou art also†a figurative, a metaphorical God too.

—Donne,John

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.

—Orwell, George pseudonym of  Eric Arthur Blair

A tragic writer does not have to believe in God, but he must believe in man.

—Krutch,JosephWood

I don't believe in the Hebrew God, some big hairy bastard with thunderbolts.

—MacGowan, Shane

Submit yourselvesthereforeto God,Resistthe devil, and he will flee from you.Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you.

—Bible (NewTestament)

Nature is but a name for an effect, Whose cause is God.

—Cowper,William

   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.

—Tennyson

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.

—Descartes, Rene¤

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.

—Bible (NewTestament)

The eternal God is thy refuge, and underneath are the everlasting arms.

—Bible (Old Testament)

Quand me"  me Dieu n'existerait pas, la religion serait encore sainte et divineöDieu 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.

—Baudelaire, Charles

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.

—Walker, Alice Malsenior

It istoo littleto call mana little world; except God, manis a diminutive to nothing.

—Donne,John

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.

—Gladstone,W(illiam) E(wart)

Shakespeareöthe nearest thing in incarnation to the eye of God.

—Olivier, Laurence Kerr, Baron

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.

—Leslie, David

I take these to be the seven great facts and doctrines concerning Godöhis richness; his double action, natural and supernatural; his perfect freedom; his delightfulness; his otherness; his adorableness and his prevenience.

—Hu«  gel, Friedrich von, Baron

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.

—MacDonald, George

'Sink me the ship, Master Gunnerösink 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.'

—Tennyson

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.

—Greene, (Henry) Graham

Honour all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honour the king.

—Bible (NewTestament)

   Fear God, and take your own part.

—Borrow, George Henry

Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man.

—Bible (Old Testament)

   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.

—Herbert, 1st Earl

It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.

—DeVries, Peter

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.

—Aubrey,John

And Jesus said unto him,No man, having put his hand to the plough, and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God.

—Bible (NewTestament)

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.

—Tennyson

'For God, for Country and for Yale', the outstanding single anti-climax in the English language.

—Thurber,James Grover

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.

—Bible (NewTestament)

For God's sake give me the young man who has brains enough to make a fool of himself!

—Stevenson, Robert Louis

For those who believe in God no explanation is necessary. For those who do not believe in God no explanation is possible.

—Seaton, George pseudonym of  George Stenius

The nearer the Church, the further from God.

—Andrewes, Lancelot

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.

—Book of Common Prayer

When Iwas10,I expresslygave God oneyear tomanifest himself. He didn't.

—Almodo¤  var, Pedro

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.

—Parker, Dorothy ne¤  e Rothschild

   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.

—Wentworth, Peter

Glory be to God for dappled things.

—Hopkins, SirAnthony

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

—Buechner, (Carl) Frederick

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.

—Blake,William

Thegloryof God isman, and thegloryof manishisdress.

—Anonymous

God†a gaseous vertebrate.

—Haeckel, Ernst Heinrich

God Almighty first planteda garden; and indeed, it isthe purest of human pleasures.

—Bacon, Francis,Viscount St Albans

Hark! how all the welkin rings, Glory to the King of kings. Peace on earth and mercy mild, God and sinners reconciled.

—Wesley, Charles

  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.

—Browning, Elizabeth ne¤  e Barrett

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.

—Blake,William

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.

—Bible (Old Testament)

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!'

—Anonymous

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.

—Bible (Old Testament)

God bless our good and gracious King Whose promise none relies on, Who never said a foolish thing Nor ever did a wise one.

—Rochester,JohnWilmot, 2nd Earl of

Mama may have, papa may have, But God bless the child that's got his own! That's got his own.

—Holiday, Billie

'God bless us every one!'said TinyTim, the last of all.

—Dickens, CharlesJohn Huffam

   Flavit deus et dissipati sunt God blew and they were scattered.

—Anonymous

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.

—Butler, Samuel

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.

—Dryden,John

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.

—Bible (Old Testament)

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.

—Donne,John

Hast thou not seen how God has struck a similitude? A good word is as a good treeöits 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 treeöuprooted 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.

—The Koran

Doubtless God could have made a better berry, but doubtless God never did.

—Butler,William

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.

—Vale¤  ry, Paul

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?

—Milton,John

For those whom God to ruin has designed, He fits for fate, and first destroys their mind.

—Dryden,John

Homo proponit, sed Deus disponit. Man proposes, but God disposes.

—Kempis, StThomas a'

   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.

—Hammarskjo«  ld, Dag HjalmarAgne Carl

After the destructionofthe Second Temple Jewslived by an ancient and fundamental insight, that God does not live in buildings but in the human heart.

—Sacks,Jonathan

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.

—Defoe, Daniel

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.

—Milton,John

God finally caught his eye.

—Kaufman, George S(imon)

God forbid: yea, let God be true, but every man a liar.

—Bible (NewTestament)

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?

—Bible (NewTestament)

Ich kenne mich auch nicht und Gott soll michauch davor behuten. I do not know myself, and God forbid that I should.

—Goethe,JohannWolfgang von

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.

—Book of Common Prayer

The old order changeth, yielding place to new, And God fulfils himself in many ways, Lest one good custom should corrupt the world.

—Tennyson

When God gave [Adam] reason, hegave him freedomto choose, for reason is but choosing; he had been else a mere artificial Adam.

—Milton,John

I now close my military career and just fade away, an old soldier whotried to dohis dutyas Godgavehimthelight to see that duty.

—MacArthur, Douglas

I have planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase.

—Bible (NewTestament)

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.

—Kipling, (Joseph) Rudyard

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.

—Ryder, Albert Pinkham

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.

—Lincoln, Abraham

God grant me a failure like that! See Me¤r ime¤e 5 67:13.

—Gounod, Charles Fran c° ois

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.

—Louise Olga Pauline Claudine Agnes known as Princess May

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.

—Day, Clarence Shepard

   I'm Jewish. I don't work out. If God had wanted us to bend over he'd've put diamonds on the floor.

—Rivers,Joan pseudonym of Joan AlexandraMolinsky

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!

—Kipling, (Joseph) Rudyard

But God has a few of us to whom he whispers in the ear; The rest may reason and welcome; 'tis we musicians know.

—Browning, Robert

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.

—Maria¤ t egui,Jose¤   Carlos

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.

—More, SirThomas

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.

—Guibert of Nogent   fl.c.1097

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.

—Ferre¤  , Rosario

An apology for the Devil: It must be remembered that wehave only heard oneside ofthe case.God has written all the books.

—Butler, Samuel

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.

—Bible (NewTestament)

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.

—Curran,John Philpot

   I shall never be persuaded that God hath shut up all light of learning within the lantern of Aristotle's brain.

—Raleigh, Sir Walter

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.

—Ransom,John Crowe

Gentlemen know that fresh air should be kept in its proper placeöout of doorsöand that,God having given us indoors and out-of-doors, we should not attempt to do away with that distinction.

—Macaulay, Dame (Emilie) Rose

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.

—Ferna¤ n dez, Macedonio

Hier stehe ich. Ich kann nicht anders. Gott helfe mir. Amen. Here I stand; I can do no other; God help me; Amen.

—Luther, Martin

Ez fer war, I call it murder,ö 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.

—Lowell,James Russell

   God in His wisdom made the fly And then forgot to tell us why.

—Nash, (Frederic) Ogden

Wellcome, all Wonders in one sight! Eternity shut in a span. Summer in Winter, Day in Night. Heaven in Earth and God in Man.

—Crashaw, Richard

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.

—Heber, Reginald

   For our God is a consuming fire.

—Bible (NewTestament)

   God is a geometrician.

—Plato

Ithink thereareinnumerablegods.What we onearth call God is a little tribal God who has made an awful mess.

—Burroughs,William S(eward)

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.

—The Koran

C'est de la'   que vient tout le mal: Dieu est un homme. All evil comes from this fact: God is a man.

—Giraudoux, (Hippolyte) Jean

   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.

—Picasso, Pablo Ruiz y

God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.

—Bible (NewTestament)

God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun proper or improper. See Hugo 421:83.

—Fuller, R(ichard) Buckminster

   Operationally,God is beginning to resemble not a ruler but the last fading smile of a cosmic Cheshire cat.

—Huxley, SirJulian Sorell

   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.öUnd wiröwir 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.öAnd weöwe still have to vanquish his shadow, too.

—Nietzsche, FriedrichWilhelm

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?

—Milton,John

God isgoneup with a merry noise: and the Lord with the sound of the trump.

—Book of Common Prayer

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.

—Bible (Old Testament)

Blind unbelief is sure to err, And scan his work in vain; God is his own interpreter, And he will make it plain.

—Cowper,William

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.

—Bible (NewTestament)

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.

—Kierkegaard, So«  ren Aabye

God is love, but get it in writing.

—Lee, Gypsy Rose stage-name of  Rose Louise Hovick

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.

—Bible (NewTestament)

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?

—Bible (Old Testament)

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.

—Bible (NewTestament)

Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.

—Bible (NewTestament)

   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.

—Anouilh,Jean

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.

—Voltaire pseudonym of  Fran c° ois Marie Arouet

God is our refuge and our strength, in straits a present aid; Therefore, although the earth remove, we will not be afraid.

—Scottish Metrical Psalms

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.

—Bible (Old Testament)

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.

—Buechner, (Carl) Frederick

   God isregistered tovote for Hollywood as a Republican. However,Jesus Christ is a Democrat from Santa Monica.

—Wall StreetJournal

God†is so great that all things give him glory if you mean they should.

—Hopkins, SirAnthony

Raffiniert ist der Herrgott, aber boshaft ist er nicht. God is subtle, but he is not malicious.

—Einstein, Albert

Yiddish is a household tongue, and God, like other members of the family, is sweetly informal in it.

—Ozick, Cynthia

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.)

—The Koran

God is the perfect poet, Who in his person acts his own creations.

—Browning, Robert

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.

—Bible (Old Testament)

Dieu est le point tangent de ze¤  ro et de l'infini. God is the tangential point of zero and the infinite.

—Jarry, Alfred

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.

—Milton,John

The best of all is,God is with us!

—Wesley,John

But plots come fromöGod 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.

—Mortimer, SirJohn Clifford

And fight in the way of God with those who fight with you, but aggress not: God loves not the aggressors.

—The Koran

So let him give; not grudgingly, or of necessity: for God loveth a cheerful giver.

—Bible (NewTestament)

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!

—Browning, Robert

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.

—Hugo,Victor Marie

God made the country, and man made the town.

—Cowper,William

God made thee perfect, not immutable.

—Milton,John

God made the integers, man made the rest.

—Kronecker, Leopold

The rich man in his castle, The poor man at his gate, God made them, high or lowly, And ordered their estate.

—Alexander, Cecil Frances

A silk suit, which cost memuchmoney, and Ipray God to make me able to pay for it.

—Pepys, Samuel

God moves in a mysterious way His wonders to perform; He plants his footsteps in the sea, And rides upon the storm.

—Cowper,William

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.

—Knox, Ronald Arbuthnot

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.

—Dryden,John

God not only plays dice. He also sometimes throws the dice where they cannot be seen. See Einstein 301:32.

—Hawking, StephenWilliam

. 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.

—Pascal, Blaise

Father of Peace, and God of love! We ownThy power to save, That power by which our Shepherd rose Victorious o'er the grave.

—Doddridge, Philip

Love wol nat been constreyned by maistrye. Whan maistrie comth, the God of Love anon Beteth his wynges, and farewel he isgon!

—Chaucer, Geoffrey

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.

—Milton,John

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!

—Kipling, (Joseph) Rudyard

But I can't think for you, You'll have to decide, Whether Judas Iscariot Had God on his side.

—Dylan, Bob pseudonym of  Robert Allen Zimmerman

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.

—Milton,John

Man is the shuttle, to whose winding quest And passage through these looms God ordered motion, but ordained no rest.

—Vaughan, Henry

God owns heaven but He craves the earth.

—Sexton, Anne ne¤  e Harvey

God passes through the thicket of the world, and wherever his glance falls he turns all things to beauty.

—StJohn of the Cross originally Juan deYepes yAŁ   lvarez

I hold God personally responsible.

—Chapman,Jake

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.

—Bible (Old Testament)

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.

—Carter,Jimmy (James Earl)

   Private Means is dead God rest his soul, officers and fellow-rankers said.

—Smith, Stevie (Florence Margaret)

And God said unto Moses,

—Bible (Old Testament)

   The rose is red, the leaves are green, God save Elizabeth, our noble queen.

—Anonymous

  Herat, 8 December. What a day it was! God save me from any more adventures on a drained stomach.

—Byron, Robert

You have to have something vicious in you to be a creative writer† God save me from being 'nice'.

—Lawrence, D(avid) H(erbert)

'God save thee, ancient Mariner! From the fiends that plague thee thus! Why look'st thou so?'öWith my cross-bow I shot the Albatross.

—Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

God save the king.

—Bible (Old Testament)

Whenyou've shouted'Rule Britannia', whenyou've sung 'God save the Queen'ö When you've finished killing Kruger with your mouthö Will you kindly drop a shilling in my little tambourine For a gentleman in Kharki ordered South?

—Kipling, (Joseph) Rudyard

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.

—Whitlam, (Edward) Gough

And God saw that it was good.

—Bible (Old Testament)

God sends meat, and the devil sends cooks.

—Fuller,Thomas

   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.

—Anonymous

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.'

—Milton,John

God's finger touched him, and he slept.

—Tennyson

God's first Creature, which was Light.

—Bacon, Francis,Viscount St Albans

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.

—Bible (Old Testament)

My God shall supplyall yourneedaccording tohisriches in glory by Christ Jesus.

—Bible (NewTestament)

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.

—Bible (NewTestament)

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.

—Bible (NewTestament)

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.

—Bates, Katharine Lee

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 heavenö All's right with the world.

—Browning, Robert

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'öwives and little childrenögood and virtuous women. 213

—Chisholm, Caroline ne¤  e Jones

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 Paradiseö Smiling to hear God's querulous calling.

—Hughes,Ted (Edward James)

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.

—Smart, Christopher

And God summons to the Abode of Peace.

—The Koran

God tells me how he wants this music playedöand you get in his way.

—Toscanini, Arturo

   God tempers the wind, said Maria, to the shorn lamb.

—Sterne, Laurence

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.

—Bible (NewTestament)

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.

—Book of Common Prayer

God the first garden made, and the first city Cain.

—Cowley, Abraham

A God, a God their severance ruled! And bade betwixt their shores to be The unplumbed, salt, estranging sea.

—Arnold, Matthew

God the Omnipotent! King, who ordainest Great windsThy clarions, lightningsThy sword.

—Ellerton,John

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.

—Milton,John

All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body, Nature is, and God the soul. 660

—Pope, Alexander

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

—Chaucer, Geoffrey

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.

—Lancaster, SirJames

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

—Marguerite d'Angoule"  me

Into that sad obscure sequestered state Where God unmakes but to remake the soul He else made first in vain; which must not be.

—Browning, Robert

God wasgood onthephysical and emotional sides and a great one for hate. He generously spilled his own hate into his dearest creation.

—Wilson

Yo nac |¤ un d|¤a que Dios estuvo enfermo. I was born on a