Affliction is but the shadow of God's wing.
George MacDonaldThe Church knew what the psalmist knew: Music praises God. Music is well or better able to praise him than the building of the church and all its decoration; it is the Church's greatest ornament.
Igor StravinskyPray God no professional may ever captain England.
Lord HawkeGod is gone up on high
With a triumphant noise.
Charles WesleyIndeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just.
Thomas JeffersonGod, that all-powerful Creator of nature and architect of the world, has impressed man with no character so proper to distinguish him from other animals, as by the faculty of speech
QuintilianNever invoke the gods unless you really want them to appear. It annoys them very much.
Gilbert Keith ChestertonIf God wanted us to play football in the air, then he would have built a pitch in the clouds
Brian CloughThe Universe is centered on neither the Earth nor the Sun - it is centered on God
Alfred NoyesOne who in a crisis forgets nautical language and shouts: 'For God's sake turn left!' [on coarse sailing]
Michael GreenGod loves an idle rainbow,
No less than labouring seas
Ralph HodgsonGod exists in eternity. The only point where eternity meets time is in the present. The present is the only time there is.
Marianne WilliamsonOh god, yes, everyone is going to think it's Bridget Jones climbs mountains.
Annabelle BondArt is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.
André Gide'God made a very obvious choice when he made me voluptuous; why would I go against what he decided for me? My limbs work, so I'm not going to complain about the way my body is shaped.'
Drew BarrymoreInfinite striving to be the best is man's duty; it is its own reward. Everything else is in God's hands.
Mahatma GandhiLife is God's novel. Let him write it.
Isaac SingerAs the infection of sin spreadeth itself throughout the whole soul, and all the faculties and powers thereof, so doth the work of the Spirit of God.
George GillespieThey call me corrupt, frivolous. I am not at all privileged. Maybe the only privileged thing is my face. And corrupt? God! I would not look like this if I am corrupt. Some ugliness would settle down on my system.
Imelda MarcosGod grant me the courage not to give up what I think is right even though I think it is hopeless.
Chester W NimitzGod loves each of us as if there were only one of us.
Saint AugustineTwa gods guides me; the ane of them is blin',
Yea and a bairn brocht up in vanitie;
The next a wife ingenrit of the sea,
And lichter nor a dauphin with her fin. [Sonnet]
Mark Alexander BoydVulgarity is, in reality, nothing but a modern, chic, pert descendant of the goddess Dullness.
Dame Edith SitwellLord of myself, accountable to none.
But to my conscience, and my God alone.
John OldhamI want to meet my God awake
Maria Theresa"I think God is a giant vibrator in the sky... a pulsating force of incredible energy."
David ArquetteThe just is close to the people's heart, but the merciful is close to the heart of God.
Kahlil GibranA man's moral conscience is the curse he had to accept from the gods in order to gain from them the right to dream.
William FaulknerGod will never give you anything you can't handle, so don't stress.
Kelly ClarksonReputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.
Thomas PaineI don't like to write like God. It is only because you never do it, though, that the critics think you can't do it.
Ernest HemingwayThe kindly God who lovingly fashioned each and every one of us and sprinkled the sky with shining stars for our delight - that God is, like Santa Claus, a myth of childhood, not anything a sane, undeluded adult could literally believe in.
Daniel DennettWe are always on the anvil; by trials God is shaping us for higher things.
Henry Ward Beecher When God loves a creature he wants the creature to know the highest happiness and the deepest misery He wants him to know all that being alive can bring. That is his best gift. There is no happiness save in understanding the whole.
Thornton WilderLet us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair; the rest is in the hands of God.
George WashingtonIf God wants us to do a thing, he should make his wishes sufficiently clear. Sensible people will wait till he has done this before paying much attention to him.
Samuel ButlerThough God hath raised me high, yet this I count the glory of my crown: that I have reigned with your loves.
Queen Elizabeth IThe Christian life is not a constant high. I have my moments of deep discouragement. I have to go to God in prayer with tears in my eyes, and say, 'O God, forgive me,' or 'Help me.'
Billy GrahamThe first step toward finding God, Who is Truth, is to discover the truth about myself: and if I have been in error, this first step to truth is the discovery of my error.
Thomas Merton'for God so loved the World that he gave his only begotten Son' John 3:16
Jesus ChristWe have been God-like in our planned breeding of our domesticated plants and animals, but we have been rabbit-like in our unplanned breeding of ourselves.
Arnold ToynbeeI think that God in creating Man somewhat overestimated his ability.
Oscar WildeThe condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance...
John Philpot CurranGolf... is the infallible test. The man who can go into a patch of rough alone, with the knowledge that only God is watching him, and play his ball where it lies, is the man who will serve you faithfully and well.
P G WodehouseThere are some things which are logically impossible, and even these are not possible therefore to God.
Hugo GrotiusGod never sendeth mouth but he sendeth meat
John HeywoodI am ready to make the decisions for people and to work with other people to make this country the great country it is at all times. [God help us all]
Gordon BrownThe grace of God is courtesy.
Hilaire BellocGod is a thought who makes crooked all that is straight.
Friedrich NietzscheGod gives no harvest unless what is planted is the faith of Peter and unless he agrees to his teachings
Thomas Becket
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