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God Quotes by John Muir
- Look! Nature is overflowing with the grandeur of God!
- It took more than three thousand years to make some of the trees in these western woods ... Through all the wonderful, eventful centuries since…
- The forests of America, however slighted by man, must have been a great delight to God; for they were the best he ever planted.
- In God's wildness lies the hope of the world-the great fresh unblighted, unredeemed wilderness. The galling harness of civilization drops off, and wounds heal ere…
- Surely all God's people, however serious or savage, great or small, like to play. Whales and elephants, dancing, humming gnats, and invisibly small mischievous microbes-…
- Oh, these vast, calm, measureless mountain days, inciting at once to work and rest! Days in whose light everything seems equally divine, opening a thousand…
- Wander a whole summer if you can. Thousands of God's blessings will search you and soak you as if you were a sponge, and the…
- We all flow from one fountain- Soul. All are expressions of one love. God does not appear, and flow out, only from narrow chinks and…
- I am often asked if I am not lonely on my solitary excursions. It seems so self-evident that one cannot be lonesome where everything is…
- I’d rather be in the mountains thinking of God, than in church thinking about the mountains.
- All wilderness seems to be full of tricks and plans to drive and draw us up into God's light.
- All the wild world is beautiful, and it matters but little where we go, to highlands or lowlands, woods or plains, on the sea or…
- No wonder the hills and groves were God's first temples, and the more they are cut down and hewn into cathedrals and churches, the farther…
- Perhaps the profession of doing good may be full, but every body should be kind at least to himself. Take a course of good water…
- Listen to them! How wholly infused with God is this one big word of love that we call the world!
- Surely all God's people, however serious or savage, great or small, like to play.
- See how God writes history. No technical knowledge is required; only a calm day and a calm mind.
- God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools.
- In God's wildness lies the hope of the world.
- God has to nearly kill us sometimes, to teach us lessons.
- A few minutes ago every tree was excited, bowing to the roaring storm, waving, swirling, tossing their branches in glorious enthusiasm like worship. But though…
- ...full of God's thoughts, a place of peace and safety amid the most exalted grandeur and enthusiastic action, a new song, a place of beginnings…
- God never made an ugly landscape. All that sun shines on is beautiful, so long as it is wild.
- Long, blue, spiky-edged shadows crept out across the snow-fields, while a rosy glow, at first scarce discernible, gradually deepened and suffused every mountain-top, flushing the…
- These temple destroyers, devotees of ravaging commercialism, seem to have a perfect contempt for Nature, and, instead of lifting their eyes to the God of…
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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