The Will Of God Quotes

Nor bird nor beast Could make me wish for anything this day, Being old, but that the old alone might die, And that would be against God's Providence.

I bear a burden that might well try Men that do all by rule, And what can I That am a wandering-witted fool But pray to God that He ease My great responsibilities?

If Michael, leader of God's host When Heaven and Hell are met, Looked down on you from Heaven's door-post He would his deeds forget.

And God would bid His warfare cease, Saying all things were well; And softly make a rosy peace, A peace of Heaven with Hell.

Locke sank into a swoon; The Garden died; God took the spinning-jenny Out of his side.

Endure what life God gives and ask no longer span; Cease to remember the delights of youth, travel-wearied aged man; Delight becomes death-longing if all longing else be vain.

God moves in mysterious ways His wonders to performs

Built God a church and laughed His word to scorn.

God forbid that Judges upon their oath should make resolutions to enlarge jurisdiction.

But, oh, Thou bounteous Giver of all good, Thou art, of all Thy gifts, Thyself thy crown!

God deliver us all from prejudice and unkindness, and fill us with the love of truth and virtue.

People ... have tried to evoke God or devil to justify them in what their glands insisted upon.

Dear God, let me be damned a little longer, a little while.

...and you don't even have to sleep alone, you don't even have to sleep at all; and so, all you have to do is show the stick to the dog now and then and say, 'Thank God for nothing.'

I don't like killing a girl," the Spaniard said. "God does it all the time; if it doesn't bother Him, don't let it worry you.

Pride of gifts robs us of God's blessing in the use of them.

Prayer is nothing but the promise reversed, or God's Word formed into an argument, and retorted by faith upon God again.

The Christian, like a chalice without a base, cannot stand on his own nor hold what he has received any longer that God holds him in His strong hands.

Thou hast no life to lose, because thou hast given it already to Christ, nor can man take away that without God's leave.

If thou beest ever so exact in thy morals, and not a worshiper of God, then thou art an atheist.

Yeah, it's a weird little niche, but by God, it's my niche.

Lincoln, speaking of his mother:] "God bless my mother; all that I am or ever hope to be I owe to her.

Whatever may be God's future, we cannot forget His past.

I have always believed that the decision to have an abortion generally should be between a woman, her doctor, her conscience, and her God.

The God of many men is little more than their court of appeal against the damnatory judgment passed on their failures by the opinion of the world.

On pragmatistic principles, if the hypothesis of God works satisfactorily in the widest sense of the word, it is true.

To some of us the thought of God is like a sort of quiet music playing in the background of the mind.

You cannot force growth of human life and civilization, any more than you can force these slow-growing trees. That is the economy of Almighty God, that all good growth is slow growth.

A belief in God is fundamental; upon it rest the influences that control life.

Love and pity and wish well to every soul in the world; dwell in love, and then you dwell in God.

God seeth different abilities and frailties of men, which may move His goodness to be merciful to their different improvements in virtue.

The obedience of men is to imitate the obedience of angels, and rational beings on earth are to live unto God, as rational beings in heaven live unto Him.

Perhaps there cannot be a better way of judging of what manner of spirit we are of, than to see whether the actions of our life are such as we may safely commend them to God in our prayers.

There is no emptiness of soul ever for those whose life is devoted to God.

It is faith among men that holds the moral elements of society together, as it is faith in God that binds the world to his throne.

Pray God, keep us simple.

God has so framed us as to make freedom of choice and action the very basis of all moral improvement, and all our faculties, mental and moral, resent and revolt against the idea of coercion.

I think, when God told Moses, "Thou shall not kill," I think God meant, "Thou shall not kill." And within the next one hundred years, we will see that God was right.

There are no trifles in the moral universe of God. Speak me a word to-day; ? it shall go ringing on through the ages.

By God! I will not tell you more to-day, Judge any way you will - what matters it?

God would never have let us long for our friends with such a strong and holy love, if they were not waiting for us.

When we feel how God was in our sorrows, we shall trust the more blessedly that He will be in our deaths.

Yes, I live in God, and shall eternally. It is His hand upholds me now; and death will be but an uplifting of me into His bosom.

Night by night I will lie down and sleep in the thought of God, and in the thought, too, that my waking may be in the bosom of the Father; and some time it will be, so I trust.

How odd Of God To choose The Jews.

God likes to listen favorably to the prayers of His faithful, particularly when they look at Christ's body

My dad was a preacher. My relationship, for example, with my father -- very difficult, and very painful, and it took me 50 years to wipe the face of my father off the face of God.

I'm trying to get far away from [picturing God as] Gandalf or Santa Claus.

He was sick of God and God's religion, sick of all the little religious social clubs that didn't seem to make any real difference or affect any real changes.

Religion is the fear of God, and its demonstration good works; and faith is the root of both: For without faith we cannot please God; nor can we fear what we do not believe.