The Will Of God Quotes

It is possible to demonstrate God's existence, although not a priori, yet a posteriori from some work of His more surely known to us.

Godhead here in hiding, whom I adore Masked by these bare shadows, shape and nothing more, See, Lord, at thy service low lies here a heart Lost, all lost in wonder at the God thou art

God is not related to creatures as though belonging to a different "genus," but as transcending every "genus," and as the principle of all "genera.

There would not be a perfect likeness of God in the universe if all things were of one grade of being.

Light is but the shadow of God.

For God is like a skilfull Geometrician.

Oblivion is not to be hired: The greater part must be content to be as though they had not been, to be found in the Register of God, not in the record of man.

There is no such thing as solitude, nor anything that can be said to be alone and by itself but God, who is His own circle, and can subsist by Himself.

Art is the perfection of nature, ... nature is the art of God.

God hath varied the inclinations of men according to the variety of actions to be performed.

To make an end of all things on Earth, and our Planetical System of the World, he (God) need but put out the Sun.

Blessed be the God's voice; for it is true, and falsehoods have to cease before it!

Nature is the time-vesture of God that reveals Him to the wise, and hides him from the foolish.

What this country needs is a man who knows God other than by heresay.

Have a purpose in life, and having it, throw into your work such strength of mind and muscle as God has given you.

What is nature? Art thou not the living government of God? O Heaven, is it in very deed He then that ever speaks through thee, that lives and loves in thee, that lives and loves in me?

Is there no God, then, but at best an absentee God, sitting idle, ever since the first Sabbath, at the outside of his Universe?

I had a lifelong quarrel with God, but in the end we made up.

There is but one temple in this Universe: The Body. We speak to God whenever we lay our hands upon it.

God Almighty never created a man half as wise as he looks.

There needs not a great soul to make a hero; there needs a god-created soul which will be true to its origin; that will be a great soul!

Love not pleasure; love God. This is the Everlasting Yea, wherein all contradiction is solved.

The peace of nature and of the innocent creatures of god seems to be secure and deep, only so long as the presence of man and his restless and unquiet spirit are not there to trouble its sanctity.

The movement of the soul along the path of duty, under the influence of holy love to God, constitutes what we call good works.

When we have learned to offer up every duty connected with our situation in life as a sacrifice to God, a settled employment becomes just a settled habit of prayer.

Consider what God can do, and you will never despair of success.

I would just turn into a giant pair of lips. "Oh God! There he is! It's Lip-Man!"

Evil's just destructive? Then storms are evil, if it's that simple. And we have fire, and there there's hail. Underwriters lump it all under 'Acts of God.

Faith is a gift of God, which man can neither give nor take away by promise of rewards or menace of torture.

To say God spake or appeared as he is in his own nature, is to deny his Infiniteness, Invisibility, Incomprehensibility.

When a man tells me God hath spoken in a dream, I know he dreamt that God spoke to him.

The Pacts and Covenants, by which the parts of this Body Politique were at first made, set together, and united, resemble that Fiat, or the Let us make man, pronounced by God in the Creation.

The first author of speech was God himself, that instructed Adam how to name such creatures as He presented to his sight.

When the nature of the thing is incomprehensible, I can acquiesce in the Scripture: but when the signification of words is incomprehensible, I cannot acquiesce in the authority of a Schoolman.

Resisting tyranny is obeying God

Every Christian sect gives a great handle to Atheism by their general dogma that, without a revelation, there would not be sufficient proof of the being of god.

Question boldly even the existence of God.

I have done for my country and for all mankind, all that I could do, and I now resign my soul, without fear, to my God - my daughter to my country.

Our particular principles of religion are a subject of accountability to God alone.

As the years go by, I find myself experiencing God's extraordinary concern, consideration, healing, and what I call in my books, the divine therapy.

I don't believe in God for the same reason that most people don't believe in Apollo or Zeus. ... God is just human beings' way of personifying an otherwise completely natural universe.

If we have not silence, God is not heard in our music. If we have no rest God, does not bless our work.

If there was no other proof of the infinite patience of God, a very good one could be found in His toleration of the pictures that are painted of Him.

In meditative prayer, one thinks and speaks not only with the mind and lips, but in a certain sense with one's whole being... All good meditative prayer is a conversation of our entire self to God.

I'm hopeful that people don't give up on marriage. When it works, it's a gift from God because you can't always have it work out the way you want.

As like a church and an ale-house, God and the devell, they manie times dwell neere to ether.

Nature is God's. Art is man's instrument.

There are matters in the Bible, said to be done by the express commandment of God, that are shocking to humanity and to every idea we have of moral justice.

The moral duty of man consists of imitatingthe moral goodness and beneficence of God,manifested in the creation, toward all His creatures.

What are the stars but points in the body of God where we insert the healing needles of our terror and longing?