The Will Of God Quotes

Prefer not the esteem of men to the approbation of God.

Knowledge enormous makes a god of me.

I have good reason to be content, for thank God I can read and perhaps understand Shakespeare to his depths.

Severn - I - lift me up - I am dying - I shall die easy; don't be frightened - be firm, and thank God it has come.

I shall soon be laid in the quiet grave - thank God for the quiet grave

I shall soon be laid in the quiet grave--thank God for the quiet grave--O! I can feel the cold earth upon me--the daisies growing over me--O for this quiet--it will be my first.

He that disobeys God, rejects his reign; and so God views it

The God who hates trees is the founding father of patriarchy.

The things that are done in the name of the shareholder are, to me, as terrifying as the things that are done - dare I say it - in the name of God.

God is in his Heaven and the first night was a wow.

I did the bible as told through Hispanic people and they laughed and applauded. I thought, "Oh my god, this is what I want to do for the rest of my life."

God is a concept by which we measure our pain. I'll say it again. God is a concept by which we measure our pain.

But for me at any rate it was all part of dissolving the God trip or father-figure trip. Facing up to reality instead of always looking for some kind of heaven.

Why should The Beatles give more? Didn't they give everything on God's earth for ten years? Didn't they give themselves?

He that denies any of the doctrines that Christ has delivered, to be true, denies him to be sent from God, and consequently to be the Messiah; and so ceases to be a Christian.

God is the place of spirits, as spaces are the places of bodies.

If love be a god, why should not lovers be virtuous?

Art is just a series of natural gestures. For God's sake, don't try to be artistic - all wild animals walk the same way.

The Lord who gave us Earth and Heaven Takes that as thanks for all He's given. The book he lent is given back All blotted red and smutted black.

God has arrived. I met him on the 5:15 train.

The smartest person in the United States Senate, and he knows it, is John Sununu. Thank God he had his mother's temperament.

God may have mercy, but we won't.

The dust to which this flesh shall return, it is the ancient dreaming dust of God.

Wherefore did he [God] create passions within us, pleasures round about us, but that these rightly tempered are the very ingredients of virtue?

Enflamed with the study of learning and the admiration of virtue; stirred up with high hopes of living to be brave men and worthy patriots, dear to God, and famous to all ages.

For God will deign to visit oft the dwellings of just men -- delighted, and with frequent intercourse -- thither will send his winged messengers on errants of supernal grace.

Immediate are the acts of God, more swift than time or motion.

If there be any difference among professed believers as to the sense of Scripture, it is their duty to tolerate such difference in each other, until God shall have revealed the truth to all.

So little knows Any, but God alone, but perverts best things To worst abuse, or to their meanest use.

For other things mild Heav'n a time ordains, And disapproves that care, though wise in show, That with superfluous burden loads the day, And when God sends a cheerful hour, refrains.

God has set labor and rest, as day and night to men successive.

What can 'scape the eye Of God, all-seeing, or deceive His heart. Omniscient!

In contemplation of created things, by steps we may ascend to God.

The spirit of man, which God inspired, cannot together perish with this corporeal clod.

But God himself is truth; in propagating which, as men display a greater integrity and zeal, they approach nearer to the similitude of God, and possess a greater portion of his love.

Just are the ways of God, And justifiable to men; Unless there be who think not God at all.

Only this I know, That one celestial father gives to all.

Son of Heav'n and Earth, Attend: that thou art happy, owe to God; That thou continuest such, owe to thyself, That is, to thy obedience; therein stand.

God shall be all in all.

Heaven Is as the Book of God before thee set, Wherein to read His wondrous works.

God, who oft descends to visit men Unseen, and through their habitations walks To mark their doings.

All wilderness seems to be full of tricks and plans to drive and draw us up into God's light.

I can say, Christ has been my only object; thank God, my righteousness too... Hold fast to Christ.

Verily if with mine own eyes I had seen a priest of God, or any of those who wear the monastic garb, sinning, I would spread my cloak and hide him, that he might not be seen of any.

In reality, each thought we have carries with it a little spiritual power, a tug toward or away from God. No thought is purely neutral.

One reason why we fail to hear God speak is that we are not attentive. We suffer from what might be called 'spiritual mindlessness.'

The miracle of Sunday is that a dead man lives. The miracle of Saturday is that the eternal Son of God lies dead.

The Holy Spirit says: You are it. You are God's plan. In a thirsty world, people need to be refreshed. It is a broken world, and people need to be healed. Now get out there and do it!

Nobody lives up to the norms that God had in mind when he first created human beings.

Heroes, whatever high ideas we may have of them, are mortal and not divine. We are all as God made us and many of us much worse.