The Will Of God Quotes
Blessed are they who never read a newspaper, for they shall see Nature, and through her, God.
Nothing is so much to be feared as fear. Atheism may comparatively be popular with God himself.
Great God, I ask thee for no meaner pelf Than that I may not disappoint myself, That in my action I may soar as high As I can now discern with this clear eye.
And by another year, Such as God knows, with freer air, More fruits and fairer flowers Will bear, While I droop here.
The man who takes the liberty to live is superior to all the laws, by virtue of his relation to the lawmaker.
One puts into one's art what one has not been capable of putting into one's existence. It is because he was unhappy that God created the world.
God's creature is one. He makes man, not men. His true creature is unitary and infinite, revealing himself, indeed, in every finite form, but compromised by none.
Christmas time, we can remember with deep thanksgiving the amazing Christmas gift of God Himself, when God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him.
Were there a Christian so faithful to his God as I was to her we would all be Jesus Christ today.
Practically speaking, there are for each one of us two supreme realities -- God and the soul. The heavens and the earth will pass away. But the soul will still remain, face to face with God.
We cannot think that God frightens us with threatenings which He really does not mean to carry out, without doing Himself obvious dishonour.
You know, we are one nation under a god. Yes, you were right. An angry, crack slinging god who decorates with bullets and spent condoms.
If there was a god, he wouldn't let a guy walk right up and shoot you in the face now would he? That's right, now you get the picture. Truth burns doesn't it?
I like that ancient Saxon phrase, which calls The burial-ground God's-Acre! It is just; It consecrates each grave within its walls, And breathes a benison o'er the sleeping dust.
What discord should we bring into the universe if our prayers were all answered! Then we should govern the world, and not God. And do you think we should govern it better?
The sphere that is deepest, most unexplored, and most unfathomable, the wonder and glory of God's thought and hand, is our own soul!
Many of our troubles are God dragging us, and they would end if we would stand upon our feet and go whither He would have us go.
Flowers are sent to do God's work in unrevealed paths, and to diffuse influence by channels that we hardly suspect.
Human life is God's outer church. Its needs and urgencies are priests and pastors.
Nature would be scarcely worth a puff of the empty wind if it were not that all Nature is but a temple, of which God is the brightness and the glory.
His nature is such that our often coming does not tire him. The whole burden of the whole life of every man may be rolled on to God and not weary him, though it has wearied man.
Perverted pride is a great misfortune in men; but pride in its original function, for which God created it, is indispensable to a proper manhood.
Morality is good, and is accepted of God, as far as it goes; but the difficulty is, it does not go far enough.
God made every man to have power to be mightier than the events round about him; to hold by his firm will the reigns by which all things are guided.
Evil men of every degree will use you, flatter you, lead you on until you are useless; then, if the virtuous do not pity you, or God compassionate, you are without a friend in the universe.
Thinking is creating with God, as thinking is writing with the ready writer; and worlds are only leaves turned over in the process of composition, about his throne.
Our earthly loves are but so many silver steps leading us up to the great golden love of God.
All our other faculties seem to have the brown touch of earth upon them, but the imagination carries the very livery of heaven, and is God's self in the soul.
The first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day. It is a blessed baptism which gives the first waking thoughts into the bosom of God.
God's men are better than the devil's men, and they ought to act as though they thought they were.
Man is that name of power which rises above them all, and gives to every one the right to be that which God meant he should be.
A mother is as different from anything else that God ever thought of, as can possibly be. She is a distinct and individual creation.
God wishes to exhaust all means of kindness before His hand takes hold on justice.
The world is to be cleaned by somebody, and you are not called of God if you are ashamed to scrub.
Reason is a permanent blessing of God to the soul. Without it there can be no large religion.
Take heed of thinking. The farther you go from the church of Rome, the nearer you are to God.