Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources. Rev. James Wood
is at once the great original I and Thou. Jean Paul.
God is better served in resisting a temptation to evil than in many formal prayers. W. Penn.
God is goodness itself, and whatsoever is good is of Him. Sir P. Sidney.
God is glorified, not by our groans, but by our 35 thanksgivings; and all good thought and good action claim a natural alliance with good cheer. Willmott.
God is great, and we know Him not; neither can the number of His years be searched out. Bible.
God is great in what is the greatest and the smallest. Herder.
God is greater than man. Bible.
God is His own interpreter. Cowper.
God is in heaven, and thou upon earth; therefore 40 let thy words be few. Bible.
God is in the generation of the righteous. Bible.
God is in the word "ought" and therefore it outweighs all but God. Joseph Cook.
God is kind to fou (drunk) folk and bairns. Sc. Pr.
God is light. St. John.
God is love. St. John. 45
God is more delighted in adverbs than in nouns, i.e., not in what is done so much as how it is done. Heb. Pr.
God is, nay, alone is; for with like emphasis we cannot say that anything else is. Carlyle.
God is not a man, that He should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent: hath He said it, and shall He not do it? or hath He spoken, and shall He not make it good? Bible.
God is not found by the tests that detect you an acid or a salt. Dr. Walter Smith.
God is not so poor in felicities or so niggard in 50 His bounty that He has not wherewithal to furnish forth two worlds. W. R. Greg.
God is not to be known by marring His fair works and blotting out the evidence of His influences upon His creatures; not amidst the hurry of crowds and the crash of innovation, but in solitary places, and out of the glowing intelligences which He gave to men of old. Ruskin.
God is on the side of virtue; for whoever dreads punishment suffers it, and whoever deserves it dreads it. Colton.
God is patient, because eternal. St. Augustine.
God is spirit. Jesus.
God made all the creatures, and gave them our love and our fear, / To give sign we and they are His children, one family here. Browning.
God is the great composer; men are only the performers. Those grand pieces which are played on earth were composed in heaven. Balzac.
God is the light which, never seen itself, makes all things visible, and clothes itself in colours. Thine eye feels not its ray, but thine heart feels its warmth. Jean Paul.
God is the number, the weight, and the measure which makes the world harmonious and eternal. Renan.
God is the perfect poet, / Who in His person 5 acts His own creations. Browning.
God is the reason of those who have no reason. Renan.
God is where He was. Pr.
God is with every great reform that is necessary, and it prospers. Goethe.
God keep me from my friends; from my enemies I will keep myself. It. Pr.
God knows I'm no the thing I should be, / Nor 10 am I ev'n the thing I could be; / But twenty times I rather would be / An atheist clean, / Than under Gospel colours hid be, / Just for a screen. Burns.
God Konge er bedre end gammel Lov—A good king is better than an old law. Dan. Pr.
God loveth a cheerful giver. St. Paul.
God made him, and therefore let him pass for a man. Mer. of Ven., i. 2.
God made man to go by motives, and he will not go without them, any more than a boat without steam or a balloon without gas. Ward Beecher.
God made man upright, but they have sought 15 out many inventions. Bible.
God made me one man; love makes me no more / Till labour come, and make my weakness score. Herbert.
God made the country; man made the town. Cowper.
God made the flowers to beautify / The earth and cheer man's careful mood; / And he is happiest who hath power / To gather wisdom from a flower, / And wake his heart in every hour / To pleasant gratitude. Wordsworth.
God made us, and we admire ourselves. Sp. Pr.
God manifests Himself to men in all wise, 20 good, humble, generous, great, and magnanimous souls. Lavater.
God may consent, but only for a time. Emerson.
God moves in a mysterious way / His wonders to perform; / He plants His footsteps in the sea, / And rides upon the storm. Cowper.
God must needs laugh outright, could such a thing be, to see His wondrous manikins here below. Hugo von Trimberg, quoted by Carlyle.
God narrows Himself to come near man, and man narrows himself to come near God. Ed.
God never forsakes His own. Pr. 25
God never imposes a duty without giving the time to do it. Ruskin.
God never made His work for man to mend. Dryden.
God never meant that man should scale the heavens / By strides of human wisdom. … He commands us in His Word / To seek Him rather where His mercy shines. Cowper.
God never pardons; the laws of the universe are irrevocable. God always pardons; sense of condemnation is but another word for penitence, and penitence is already new life. Wm. Smith.
God never sends mouths but He sends meat. 30 Dan. Pr.
God never shuts one door but He opens another. Irish Pr.
God offers to every man his choice between truth and repose. Emerson.
God often visits us, but most of the time we are not at home. Joseph Roux.
God only opened His hand to give flight to a thought that He had held imprisoned from eternity. J. G. Holland.
God pardons like a mother, who kisses the 35 offence into everlasting forgetfulness. Ward Beecher.
God permits, but not for ever. Pr.
God said, Let there be light; and there was light. Bible.
God save the fools, and don't let them run out; for,