Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources. Rev. James Wood
deceiveth thee not. Thomas à Kempis.
God defend me from the man of one book. Pr.
God desireth to make your burden light to you, for man hath been created weak. Koran.
God does not measure men by inches. Sc. Pr.
God does not pay every week, but He pays at 30 the end. Dut. Pr.
God does not require us to live on credit; He pays what we earn as we earn it, good or evil, heaven or hell, according to our choice. C. Mildmay.
God does not smite with both hands. Sp. Pr.
God does not weigh criminality in our scales. God's measure is the heart of the offender, a balance so delicate that a tear cast in the other side may make the weight of error kick the beam. Lowell.
God does with His children as a master does with his pupils; the more hopeful they are, the more work He gives them to do. Plato.
God enters by a private door into every individual. 35 Emerson.
God estimates us not by the position we are in, but by the way in which we fill it. T. Edwards.
God gave thy soul brave wings; put not those feathers / Into a bed to sleep out all ill weathers. Herbert.
God gives all things to industry. Pr.
God gives birds their food, but they must fly for it. Dut. Pr.
God gives every bird its nest, but does not 40 throw it into the nest. J. G. Holland.
God gives his angels charge of those who sleep, / But He Himself watches with those who wake. Harriet E. H. King.
God gives sleep to the bad, in order that the good may be undisturbed. Saadi.
God gives strength to bear a great deal, if we only strive ourselves to endure. Hans Andersen.
God gives the will; necessity gives the law. Dan. Pr.
God gives us love. Something to love / He 45 lends us; but when love is grown / To ripeness, that on which it throve / Falls off, and love is left alone. Tennyson.
God giveth speech to all, song to the few. Dr. Walter Smith.
God grant you fortune, my son, for knowledge avails you little. Sp. Pr.
God hands gifts to some, whispers them to others. W. R. Alger.
God hangs the greatest weights on the smallest wires. Bacon.
God has been pleased to prescribe limits to His 50 own power, and to work out His ends within these limits. Paley.
God has commanded time to console the unhappy. Joubert.
God has connected the labour which is essential to the bodily sustenance with the pleasures which are healthiest for the heart; and while He made the ground stubborn, He made its herbage fragrant and its blossoms fair. Ruskin.
God has delegated Himself to a million deputies. Emerson.
God has given a prophet to every people in its own tongue. Arab Pr.
God has given nuts to some who have no teeth. Port. Pr.
God has given us wit and flavour, and brightness and laughter, and perfumes to enliven the days of man's pilgrimage, and to charm his pained steps over the burning marl. Sydney Smith.
God has His little children out at nurse in many a home. Dr. Walter Smith.
God has lent us the earth for our life; it is a great entail. Ruskin.
God has made man to take pleasure in the use 5 of his eyes, wits, and body; and the foolish creature is continually trying to live without looking at anything, without thinking about anything, and without doing anything. Ruskin.
God has made sunny spots in the heart; why should we exclude the light from them? Haliburton.
God has not said all that thou hast said. Gael. Pr.
God has sunk souls in dust, that by that means they may burst their way through errors to truth, through faults to virtue, and through sufferings to bliss. Engel.
God hath anointed thee to free the oppressed and crush the oppressor. Bryant.
God hath given to man a short time here upon 10 earth, and yet upon this short time eternity depends. Jeremy Taylor.
God hath given you one face, and you make yourselves another: you jig, you amble, and you lisp, and you nickname God's creatures, and make your wantonness your ignorance. Ham., iii. 1.
God hath many sharp-cutting instruments and rough files for the polishing of His jewels. Leighton.
God hath yoked to Guilt her pale tormentor, Misery. Bryant.
God help the children of dependence! Burns.
God help the poor, for the rich can help themselves. 15 Sc. Pr.
God help the rich folk, for the poor can beg. Sc. Pr.
God help the sheep when the wolf is judge. Dan. Pr.
God help the teacher, if a man of sensibility and genius, when a booby father presents him with his booby son, and insists on lighting up the rays of science in a fellow's head whose skull is impervious and inaccessible by any other way than a positive fracture with a cudgel. Burns.
God helps the strongest. Ger. and Dut. Pr.
God helps those who help themselves. Pr. 20
God Himself cannot do without wise men. Luther.
God Himself cannot procure good for the wicked. Welsh Triad.
God is able to do more than man can understand. Thomas à Kempis.
God is a circle whose centre is everywhere, and its circumference nowhere. St. Augustine.
God is a creditor who has no bad debts. Ger. 25 Pr.
God is a good worker, but He loves to be helped. Basque Pr.
God is alpha and omega in the great world; endeavour to make Him so in the little world. Quarles.
God is always ready to strengthen those who strive lawfully. Thomas à Kempis.
God is a shower to the heart burnt up with grief, a sun to the face deluged with tears. Joseph Roux.
God is a sure paymaster. He may not pay 30 at the end of every week or month or year, but He pays in the end. Anne of Austria.
God is a tabula rasa, on which nothing more stands written than what thou thyself hast inscribed thereon. Luther.
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