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God Quotes by John Greenleaf Whittier
- We live by faith; but Faith is not the slave Of text and legend. Reason's voice and God's, Nature's and Duty's, never are at odds.…
- God's ways seem dark, but, soon or late, They touch the shining hills of day; The evil cannot brook delay, The good can well afford…
- God is good and God is light In this faith I rest secure, Evil can but serve the right, Over all shall love endure.
- Beauty seen is never lost, God's colors all are fast.
- The smile of God is victory.
- Through the dark and stormy night Faith beholds a feeble light Up the blackness streaking; Knowing God's own time is best, In a patient hope…
- Before me, even as behind, God is, and all is well.
- Behind the cloud the starlight lurks, Through showers the sunbeams fall; For God, who loveth all his works, Has left his Hope with all.
- God's providence is not blind, but full of eyes.
- O brother man! fold to thy heart thy brother; Where pity dwells, the peace of God is there; To worship rightly is to love each…
- God should be most where man is least: So, where is neither church nor priest, And never rag nor form of creed To clothe the…
- God gives quietness at last.
- With silence only as their benediction, God's angels come Where in the shadow of a great affliction, The soul sits dumb!
- Blow, bugles of battle, the marches of peace; East, west, north, and south let the long quarrel cease; Sing the song of great joy that…
- God fills the gaps of human need, Each crisis brings its word and deed.
- So let it be in God's own might We gird us for the coming fight, And, strong in Him whose cause is ours In conflict…
- God blesses still the generous thought,And still the fitting word He speeds,And Truth, at His requiring taught,He quickens into deeds.
- God's colors all are fast.
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