Will Of God Quotes

I believe God was in Christ, not will be, perhaps, maybe if we're good boys and girls, it's over, it's done, we are one people, race is a violation, nations are a violation.

Sometimes I wonder why God ever trusts talent in the hands of women, they usually make such an infernal mess of it. I think He must do it as a sort of ghastly joke.

The first act of religion, therefore, concerns those things which are communicated to us from God. The other concerns those things which we yield to God.

God himself took this human flesh upon him.

A cockle-fish may as soon crowd the ocean into its narrow shell, as vain man ever comprehend the decrees of God!

When the sun rises, do you not see a round disc of fire somewhat like a guinea? O no, no, I see an innumerable company of the heavenly host crying Holy, Holy, Holy is the Lord God Almighty.

That the Jews assumed a right exclusively to the benefits of God will be a lasting witness against them and the same will it be against Christians.

God keep me from the divinity of Yes and Nothe Yea Nay Creeping Jesus, from supposing Up and Down to be the same thing as allexperimentalists must suppose.

Thou art a man God is no more Thy own humanity Learn to adore

The reason Milton wrote in fetters when he wrote of Angels and God, and at liberty when of Devils and Hell, is because he was a true poet and of the Devil's party without knowing it.

Only God, my dear, Could love you for yourself alone And not your yellow hair.

Florence Farr once said to me, If we could say to ourselves, with sincerity, 'this passing moment is as good as any I shall ever know,' we could die upon the instant and be united with God.

And God, the herdsman, goads them on behind.

God hath yoked to guilt her pale tormentor,--misery.

Truth crushed to earth shall rise again,- The eternal years of God are hers; But Error, wounded, writhes with pain, And dies among his worshippers.

God made bees, and bees made honey, God made man, and man made money, Pride made the devil, and the devil made sin; So God made a cole-pit to put the devil in.

Events of all sorts creep or fly exactly as God pleases.

How shall I speak thee, or thy power address Thou God of our idolatry, the Press. . . . . Like Eden's dead probationary tree, Knowledge of good and evil is from thee.

Stamps God's own name upon a lie just made, To turn a penny in the way of trade.

In the vast, and the minute, we see The unambiguous footsteps of the God, Who gives its lustre to an insect's wing And wheels His throne upon the rolling worlds.

The success of sainthood is the success attained by struggle and suffering and achieved by faith; a success of honor, of clean hands and pure heart, of service to man and glory to God.

There are two basic rules which should never be broken. Be subtle. And don't, for God's sake, try to do business with anyone who's having a bad game.

Only the man who has enough good in him to feel the justice of the penalty can be punished; the others can only be hurt.

If there is no God, there is no hope.

All the plots of hell and commotions on earth have not so much as shaken God's hand to spoil one letter or line he has been drawing.

Therefore tremble, O man, at any power thou hast, except thou usest it for God. Art thou strong in body; who hath thy strength? God, or thy lusts?

God hath made it a debt which one saint owes to another to carry their names to a throne of grace.

God's help is nearer than the door.

Yeah, I made it. It sneaks up on you. You're some schmuck and you wake up one day and you go, Good God, I'm the cheese.

The march to our duty here, not merely to ourselves, but to our surroundings, must proceed. God wills it.

It is our souls which are the everlastingness of God's purpose in this earth.

Let God do with me what He will, anything He will; and, whatever it be, it will be either heaven itself, or some beginning of it.

God help the patient.

I pray because I can't help myself. I pray because I'm helpless. I pray because the need flows out of me all the time- waking and sleeping. It doesn't change God- it changes me.

It is a severe rebuke upon us, that God makes us so many allowances, and we make so few to our neighbour.

[I]t is impossible that any people of government should ever prosper, where men render not unto God, that which is God's, as well as to Caesar, that which is Caesar's.

Is it reasonable to take it ill, that anybody desires of us that which is their own? All we have is the Almighty's; and shall not God have his own when he calls for it?

Man, as we know him, is a poor creature; he is halfway between an ape and a god and he is travelling in the right direction.

That the God-man died for his people, and that His death is their life, is an idea which was in some degree foreshadowed by the older mystical sacrifices.

God raises up such men as John Bunyan and William Huntington but once in a century.

What is the highest secret to victory and peace? To will what God wills, and strike a league with destiny.

Nemesis is one of God's handmaids.

Dennis Cooper, God help him, is a born writer.

I think there are innumerable gods. What we on earth call God is a little tribal God who has made an awful mess. Certainly forces operating through human consciousness control events.

A politician... one that would circumvent God.

Let never day nor night unhallowed pass, but still remember what the Lord hath done.

Oh God! that one might read the book of fate, And see the revolution of the times Make mountains level, and the continent, Weary of solid firmness, melt itself Into the sea.

I care not, a man can die but once; we owe God and death.

Oh, God! I have an ill-divining soul!

God defend me from that Welsh fairy, Lest he transform me to a piece of cheese!