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God Quotes by James Russell Lowell
- 'Tis sorrow builds the shining ladder up, Whose golden rounds are our calamities, Whereon our firm feet planting, nearer God The spirit climbs, and hath…
- Now the heart is so full that a drop overfills it; We are happy now because God wills it.
- 'T is heaven alone that is given away; 'T is only God may be had for the asking.
- Ez fer war, I call it murder,- There you hev it plain an' flat; I don't want to go no furder Than my Testyment fer…
- Earth gets its price for what Earth gives us; The beggar is taxed for a corner to die in, The priest hath his fee who…
- The time is ripe, and rotten-ripe, for change; Then let it come: I have no dread of what Is called for by the instinct of…
- Now the heart is so full that a drop overfills it, We are happy now because God so wills it; No matter how barren the…
- Whom the heart of man shuts out, Sometimes the heart of God takes in, And fences them all round about With silence mid the worlds…
- Count me o'er earth's chosen heroes, - they were souls that stood alone, While the men they agonized for hurled the contumelious stone, Stood serene,…
- Behind the dim unknown, Standeth God with the shadow, keeping watch above his own.
- The traitor to Humanity is the traitor most accursed; Man is more than Constitutions; better rot beneath the sod, Than be true to Church and…
- Thank God every morning when you get up that you have something to do that day, which must be done, whether you like it or…
- Children are God's Apostles, sent forth, day by day, to preach of love, and hope, and peace.
- Poetry is something to make us wiser and better, by continually revealing those types of beauty and truth, which God has set in all men's…
- All God's angels come to us disguised.
More God Quotes
- Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god. — Aristotle
- A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler… — Aristotle
- The gods too are fond of a joke. — Aristotle
- We have domesticated God's transcendence. We often learn about God at about the same time as we are learning about Santa Claus;… — Karen Armstrong
- Yes, all fundamentalists feel that in a secular society, God has been relegated to the margin, to the periphery and they are… — Karen Armstrong
- I was a lousy nun. I couldn't do it. I couldn't find God. It wasn't suitable for me. It is suitable for… — Karen Armstrong
- Whatever man uses without the fear of God, whatever he applies to the mere gratifying of his flesh, cannot fail to operate… — Johann Arndt
- If I were to say, 'God, why me?' about the bad things, then I should have said, 'God, why me?' about the… — Arthur Ashe
- To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today. — Isaac Asimov
- If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men… — Francis of Assisi
- I have been all things unholy. If God can work through me, he can work through anyone. — Francis of Assisi
- It is not fitting, when one is in God's service, to have a gloomy face or a chilling look. — Francis of Assisi