The Will Of God Quotes

When God will punish, hee will first take away the understanding.

Who likes not the drinke, God deprives him of bread.

I envy no man's nightingale or spring; Nor let them punish me with loss of rhyme, Who plainly say, My God, My King.

Ah my deare God! though I am clean forgot, Let me not love thee, if I love thee not.

HELP = H(umor), E-go, edging God out, L-istening, P-urpose

Teach me, my God and king In all things thee to see And what I do in anything To do it as for thee

The God of love my shepherd is, And he that doth me feed: While he is mine, and I am his, What can I want or need?

Lie not, neither to thyself, nor man, nor God. Let mouth and heart be one; beat and speak together, and make both felt in action. It is for cowards to lie.

God's breath in man returning to his birth, The soul in paraphrase, heart in pilgrimage.

God strikes with his finger, and not with all his arm.

When once thy foot enters the church, be bare. God is more there than thou: for thou art there Only by his permission. Then beware, That leads from earth to heaven.

No sooner is a Temple built to God but the Devill builds a Chappell hard by.

To a close shorn sheep, God gives wind by measure.

God sends cold according to clothes.

God sends a curst cow short horns.

He that will not have peace, God gives him warre. [He that will not have peace, God gives him war.]

Hee looseth nothing, that looseth not God.

Helpe thy selfe, and God will helpe thee.

In time comes he whom God sends.

God comes to see without a bell.

God complaines not, but doth what is fitting.

God is at the end, when we thinke he is furthest off it.

God strikes not with both hands, for to the sea he made heavens, and to rivers foords.

Good is god, but better carries it.

And thus was kept the first Christmas, the Christmas in the year one, with carols by the choir of heaven, and God's own Son, the Saviour of the world, coming as a Christmas gift for all mankind.

God chooses that men should be tried, but let a man beware of tempting his neighbor.

He (God) can be revealed only to the child; perfectly, to the pure child only. All the discipline of the world is to make men children, that God may be revealed to them.

It is the heart that is not sure of its God that is afraid to laugh in His presence.

As many as received Him, to them gave He power to become the sons of God.

I believe that no hell will be lacking which would help the just mercy of God to redeem his children.

But there are not a few who would be indignant at having their belief in God questioned, who yet seem greatly to fear imagining Him better than He is.

In moments of doubt I cry, ‘Could God Himself create such lovely things as I dreamed?’ ‘Whence then came thy dream?’ answers Hope.

A voice is in the wind I do not know A meaning on the face of the high hills Whose utterance I cannot comprehend. A something is behind them: that is God.

It's right to trust in God; but, if you don't stand to your halliards your craft'll miss stays, and your faith'll be blown out of the bolt-ropes in the turn of a marlinspike.

God is the God of the animals in a far lovelier way, I suspect, than many of us dare to think, but he will not be the God of a man by making a good beast of him.

We have to do with God, to whom no one can look without the need of being good waking up in his heart; to think about God is to begin to be good.

I thank God, I have been able, by adopting Principles of strict Economy and Frugality, to keep my principal, I mean my Country-Estate, unimpaired.

I don't know what the universe is all about, but to me, nothing is gained by slapping a God sticker on it. It has never been a comfort to me to believe there's an all-seeing eye in the sky.

He would say that God had given him a tail to keep the flies off, but that he would sooner have had no tail and no flies.

The danger comes in, in my opinion, when you believe someone because they're the leader of your church and supposedly they have an ear to God without examining what they're doing.

I believe that most of what was said of God was in reality said of that Spirit whose body is Earth.

Let us also once more rejoice in, and thank God for, the fact that we know nothing about Homer, and practically nothing about Shakespeare.

To be made evident, truth must be sought for; for of itself it is slow to appear, and between ourselves and God the obstacles are so many!

Death must no longer be either the penalty for prosperity or the consolation of misery. God did not destine it to be either the punishment or the compensation for life.

A fanatical imagination cannot regard God as just unless he is represented as infinitely cruel.

Sometimes I think fiction exists to model the way God might think of us, if God had the time and inclination to do so.

In the absolute sense - kind of from the God's-eye view - God might feel like, "I made this thing that has all of that in it, all the horror and all the beauty."

And fragile is thy tenure of this world Still haunted by the monstrous ghost of God. ("To Science")

There are few have Dana's fortune, to have God and gold together.

I've got God's shoulder to cry on. And I cry a lot. I do a lot of crying in this job. I'll bet I've shed more tears than you can count, as president.