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God Quotes by John Donne
- If I lose at play, I blaspheme; if my fellow loses, he blasphemes. So, God is always the loser.
- As he that fears God fears nothing else, so he that sees God sees everything else.
- Man is not only a contributory creature, but a total creature; he does not only make one, but he is all; he is not a…
- I count all that part of my life lost which I spent not in communion with God, or in doing good.
- I throw myself down in my chamber, and I call and invite God and his angels thither...
- God is so omnipresent. . . . God is an angel in an angel, and a stone in a stone, and a straw in a…
- I throw myself down in my chamber, and I call in, and invite God, and his Angels thither, and when they are there, I neglect…
- There is nothing that God hath established in a constant course of nature, and which therefore is done every day, but would seem a Miracle,…
- Humiliation is the beginning of sanctification; and as without this, without holiness, no man shall see God, though he pore whole nights upon his Bible;…
- The sun must not set upon anger, much less will I let the sun set upon the anger of God towards me.
- All mankind is one volume. When one man dies, a chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language. And…
- Now God comes to thee, not as in the dawning of the day, not as in the bud of the spring, but as the sun…
- I long to talk with some old lover's ghost, Who died before the god of love was born.
- What gnashing is not a comfort, what gnawing of the worm is not a tickling, what torment is not a marriage bed to this damnation,…
- God made sun and moon to distinguish the seasons, and day and night; and we cannot have the fruits of the earth but in their…
- In the first minute that my soul is infused, the Image of God is imprinted in my soul; so forward is God in my behalf,…
- God affords no man the comfort, the false comfort of Atheism: He will not allow a pretending Atheist the power to flatter himself, so far,…
- It is too little to call man a little world; Except God, man is a diminutive to nothing.
- Affliction is a treasure, and scarce any man hath enough of it. No man hath affliction enough that is not matured and ripened by it…
- I neglect God and his angles for the noise of a fly, for the rattling of a coach, for the whining of a door.
- If every gnat that flies were an archangel, all that could but tell me that there is a God; and the poorest worm that creeps…
- I shall not live 'till I see God; and when I have seen Him, I shall never die.
- God employs several translators; some pieces are translated by age, some by sickness, some by war, some by justice.
- For God's sake hold your tongue, and let me love.
- He must pull out his own eyes, and see no creature, before he can say, he sees no God; He must be no man, and…
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- 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