Allen Woody
„Notebooks"
If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name at a Swiss bank.
Andrewes Bishop Lancelot 1555-1626
Of the Nativity
The nearer the Church the further from God.
Anonymous
Every April, God rewrites the Book of Genesis.
Anonymous
Let's all give God a great big hand. I've seen the last page of the Bible and it's all going to turn out all right.
Anonymous
The nature of God is a circle of which the centre is everywhere and the circumference is nowhere.
Anonymous
What men usually ask of God when they pray is that two and two not make four.
Aquinas St. Thomas 1225-1274
Summa Theologicae
Therefore it is necessary to arrive at a prime mover, put in motion by no other; and this everyone understands to be God.
Barrie J.M. 1860-1937
God gave us memories that we might have roses in December.
Becon Thomas 1523-1567
Catechism
For commonly, wheresoever God buildeth a church, the devil will build a chapel just by.
Berlin Irving 1888-1989
„God Bless America"
God Bless America,
Land that I love,
Stand beside her and guide her
Thru the night with a light from above.
From the mountains to the prairies,
To the oceans white with foam,
God bless America,
My home sweet home.
The Bible
New Testament: Acts of the Apostles ch. 10 v.34
God is no respecter of persons.
The Bible (Authorized Version)
New Testament: St John ch.1 v.1
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
The Bible
New Testament: St Luke ch.17 v.21
The kingdom of God is within you.
The Bible (Authorized Version)
New Testament: St Matthew ch.19 v.6
What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.
The Bible (Authorized Version)
New Testament: St Matthew ch.22 v.21
Render therefore unto Caesar the things which are Caesar's; and unto God the things that are God's.
The Bible (Authorized Version)
Old Testament: Deuteronomy ch.6 v.4
Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God is one Lord.
Bigod Roger, Earl of Norfolk 1245-1306
The Chronicle of Walter of Guisbrough
By God, O King, I will neither go nor hang!
The Book of Common Prayer
Psalm 46 v.1
God is our hope and strengh: a very present help in trouble.
The Book of Common Prayer
Psalm 100 v.1
Be ye sure that the Lord he is God: it is he that hath made us, and not we ourselves; we are his people, the sheep of his pasture.
The Book of Common Prayer
Solemnization of Matrimony, Wedding
Those whom God hath joined together let no man put asunder.
Bossidy John Collins 1860-1928
(at Holy Cross College)
And this is good old Boston,
The home of the bean and the cod,
Where the Lowells talk to the Cabots
And the Cabots talk only to God.
Browning Robert 1812-1889
´A Blot in the „Scutcheon"
I was so young, I loved him so, I had
No mother, God forgot me, and I fell.
Bunuel Luis 1900-1983
Thanks God, I am still an atheist...
Byrom Hohn 1692-1763
God bless the King, I mean the Faith's Defender;
God bless - no harm in blessing - the Pretender;
But who Pretender is, or who is King,
God bless us all - that's quite another thing.
Carlyle Thomas 1795-1881
God Almighty never created a man half as wise as he looks.
Cervantes Miguel de 1547-1616
God bears with the wicked, but not forever.
Clough Arthur Hugh 1819-1861
Dipsychus
And almost everyone when age,
Disease, or sorrows strike him,
Inclines to think there is a God,
Or something very like Him.
Davies Paul
It may be bizarre, but in my opinion, science offers a sure path to God and religion.
Day Clarence 1874-1935
Father expected a good deal of God. He didn't actually accuse God of inefficiency, but when he prayed his tone was loud and angry, like that of a dissatisfied guest in a carelessly managed.
Defoe Daniel 1660-1731
The True-Born Englishman
Wherever God erects a house of prayer,
The Devil always builds a chapel there;
And ´twill be found, upon examination,
The latter has the largest congregation.
Dillard Annie
I read about an Eskimo hunter who asked the local missionary priest, „If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell?" „No," said the priest, „not if you did not know." „Then why," asked the Eskimo earnestly, „did you tell me?"
Dostoevsky Fedor 1821-1881
The Brothers Karamazov
The awful thing is that beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man.
Einstein Albert 1879-1955
God is subtle but he is not malicious.
Eliot George 1819-1880
Adam Bede
We hand folks over to God's marcy, and show none ourselves.
Elizabeth I Queen 1533-1603
(to the dying Countess of Nottingham)
God may pardon you, but I never can.
Elizabeth I Queen 1533-1603
The Golden Speech
Though God hath raised me high, yet this I count the glory of mycrown: that I have reigned with your loves.
Fosdick Harry Emerson 1878-1969
God is not a cosmic bellboy for whom we can press a button to get things done.
Franklin Benjamin 1706-1790
God heals, and the doctor takes the fees.
Grice Glenn le
Florida: God's waiting room.
Halsey Margaret
Whatever the rest of the world thinks of the English gentleman, the English lady regards him apprehensively as something between God and a goat and
equally formidable on both scores.
Hawking Stephen
A Brief History of Time
If we find the answer to that [why it is that we and the universe exist], it would be the ultimate triumph of human reason - for then we would know the mind of God.
Herbert George 1593-1633
„The 23rd Psalm"
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?
Housman A.E. 1859-1936
Last Poems
These, in the day when heaven was falling,
The hour when earth's foundations fled,
Followed their mercenary calling
And took their wages and are dead.
Hubbard Elbert 1859-1915
God will not look you over for medals, degrees or diplomas, but for scars.
Jenkins Dr David (Bishop of Durham) 1925-
God is the surprise of the universe, not its answer.
Keble John 1792-1866
The Christian Year „Morning"
The trivial round, the common task,
Would furnish all we ought to ask;
Room to deny ourselves; a road
To bring us, daily, nearer God.
King Martin Luther 1929-1968
(day before assassination)
I just want to do God's will. And he's allowed me to go up to the mountain. And I've looked over, and I've seen the promised land ... So I'm happy tonight. I'm not worried about anything. I'm not fearing any man.
Klopstock Friedrich 1724-1803
(of a passage in one of his poems)
God and I both knew what it meant once; now God alone knows.
Knox John c.1505-1572
A man with God is always in the majority.
Lessing G.E. 1729-1781
Eine Duplik
If God were to hold out enclosed in His right hand all Truth, and in His left hand just the active search for Truth, though with the condition that I should always err therein, and He should say to me: Choose! I should humbly take His left hand and say: Father! Give me this one; absolute Truth belongs to Thee alone.
Lincoln Abraham 1809-1865
We trust, sir, that God is on our side. It is more important to know that we are on God's side.
Lowell James Russell 1819-1891
The Biglow Papers
An' you've gut to git up airly
Ef you want to take in God.
Luther Martin 1483-1546
(attributed, at the Diet of Worms)
Hier stehe ich. Ich kann nicht anders. Gott helfe mir. Amen.
Here stand I. I can do no other. God help me. Amen.
Luther Martin 1483-1546
Large Catechism „The First Commandment"
Whatever your heart clings to and confides in, that is really your God.
McCord David
„Remainders" (epitaph for a waiter)
By and by
God caught his eye.
MacLeish Archibald 1892-1982
We have no choice but to be guilty,
God is unthinkable if we are innocent.
Malory Sir Thomas d.1471
Le Morte D'Arthur
God defend me, said Dinadan, for the joy of love is too short, and the sorrow thereof, and what cometh thereof, dureth over long.
Mann Horace 1796-1859
We put things in order - God does the rest. Lay an iron bar east and west, it is not magnetized. Lay it north and south and it is.
Milton John 1608-1674
Paradise Lost
For contemplation he and valour formed,
For softness she and sweet attractive grace,
He for God only, she for God in him:
His fair large front and eye sublime declared
Absolute rule.
Milton John 1608-1674
Samson Agonistes
Just are the ways of God,
And justifiable to men;
Unless there be who think not God at all.
Moliére 1622-1673
Tartuffe
God it is true, does some delights condemn,
But ´tis not hard to come to terms with Him.
Montesquieu Charles Baron de 1689-1755
Mottoes and Logans
Ad majorem Dei gloriam.
To the greater glory of God.
Needham Richard J.
God punishes us mildly by ignoring our prayers and severely by answering them.
Owen John c.1563-1622
Epigrams
God and the doctor we alike adore
But only when in danger, not before;
The danger o'er, both are alike requited,
God is forgotten, and the Doctor slighted.
Phillips Wendell 1811-1884
One on God's side is a majority.
Picasso Pablo 1881-1973
Gos is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant, and the cat. He has no real style. He just goes on trying other things.
Pope Alexander 1688-1744
An Essay on Man
Thus God and nature linked the gen'ral frame,
And bade self-love and social be the same.
Pope Alexander 1688-1744
An Essay on Man
A wit's a feather, and a chief a rod;
An honest man's the noblest work of God.
Proverbs and Sayings
Dutch
God does not pay weekly, but he pays at the end.
Proverbs and Sayings
Dutch
God made the ocean, but the Dutch made Holland.
Proverbs and Sayings
Latin
God will be present, whether asked or not.
Quarles Francis 1592-1644
Divine Fancies
Our God and soldiers we alike adore
Ev'n at the brink of danger; not before:
After deliverance, both alike requited,
Our God's forgotten, and our soldiers slighted.
Russell Bertrand 1872-1970
Simpson succeeded in proving that there was no harm in giving anaesthetics to men, because God put Adam into a deep sleep when He extracted his rib. But male ecclesiastics remained unconvinced as regards the sufferings of women, at any rate in childbirth.
Ségur Sophie Rostopchine
God keeps the wicked to give them time to repent.
Shakespeare William 1564-1616
Hamlet
God has given you one face, and you make yourselves another.
Shakespeare William 1564-1616
The Merchant of Venice
God made him, and therefore let him pass for a man.
Shaw George Bernard 1856-1950
Beware of the man whose God is in the skies.
Shaw George Bernard 1856-1950
Getting Married
What God hath joined together no man ever shall put asunder: God will take care of that.
Smart Christopher 1722-1771
Jubilate Agno
For in my nature I quested for beauty, but God,
God hath sent me to sea for pearls.
Spinoza Baruch 1632-1677
Ethics
By God I mean a being absolutely infinite - that is, a substance consisting in infinite attributes, of which each expresses eternal and infinite essentiality.
Swinburne Algernon Charles 1837-1909
„Hymn of Man"
But God, if a God there be, is the substance of men which is man.
Temple William 1881-1944
It is a mistake to suppose that God is only, or even chiefly, concerned with religion.
Tennyson Alfred Lord 1809-1892
Idylls of the King „The Coming of Arthur"
Man's word is God in man.
Tennyson Alfred Lord 1809-1892
In Memoriam A.H.H.
God's finger touched him, and he slept.
Thackeray William Makepeace 1811-1863
Mother is the name of God in the lips and hearts of children.
Tillotson John 1630-1694
Sermon 93
If God were not a necessary Being of himself,He might almost seem to be made for the use and benefit of mankind.
Valéry Paul 1871-1945
Tel Quel 1 „Moralités"
God created man and, finding him not suffciently alone, gave him a companion to make him feel his solitude more keenly.
Vaughan Henry 1622-1695
Silex Scintillans „Man"
Man is the shuttle, to whose winding quest
And passage through these looms
God ordered motion, but ordained no rest.
Virgil 70-19 BC
Aeneid
O you who have borne even heavier things, God will grant an end to these too.
Voltaire 1694-1778
The Piccini Notebooks
God is on the side not of the heavy battallions, but of the best shots.
Walton Izaak 1593-1683
The Compleat Angler
An excellent angler, and now with God.
Watts Isaac 1674-1748
Divine Songs for Children „Against Quarrelling"
Let dogs delight to bark and bite,
For God hath made them so.
Wiesel Elie
God of forgiveness, do not forgive those murderers of Jewish children here.