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God Quotes by John Ruskin
- When men do not love their hearth, nor reverence their thresholds, it is a sign that they have dishonoured both ... Our God is a…
- The truth of Nature is a part of the truth of God; to him who does not search it out, darkness; to him who does,…
- All great art is the expression of man's delight in God's work, not his own.
- The root of almost every schism and heresy from which the Christian Church has suffered, has been because of the effort of men to earn,…
- Of all God's gifts to the sighted man, color is holiest, the most divine, the most solemn.
- God gives us always strength enough, and sense enough, for everything He wants us to do.
- You cannot get anything out of nature or from God by gambling; only out of your neighbor.
- The Bible is the one Book to which any thoughtful man may go with any honest question of life or destiny and find the answer…
- When God shuts a door, He opens a window.
- The infinity of God is not mysterious, it is only unfathomable; not concealed, but incomprehensible; it is a clear infinity, the darkness of the pure…
- God never imposes a duty without giving time to do it.
- God alone can finish.
- Not without design does God write the music of our lives.
- Know thyself, for through thyself only thou canst know God.
- God has lent us the earth for our life; it is a great entail. It belongs as much to those who are to come after…
- In our whole life melody the music is broken off here and there by rests, and we foolishly think we have come to the end…
- [For men] to feel their souls withering within them, unthanked, to find their whole being sunk into an unrecognized abyss, to be counted off into…
- Modern science gives lectures on botany, to show there is no such thing as a flower; on humanity, to show there is no such thing…
- God intends no man to live in this world without working, but it seems to me no less evident that He intends every man to…
- Not without design does God write the music of our lives. Be it ours to learn the time, and not be discouraged at the rests.…
- I am an atheist, thank God!
- God saith, 'The person I hold as beloved, I am his hearing by which he heareth, and I am his sight by which he seeth,…
- I love Coleridge ... and I am very willing to allow that he has more imagination than Wordsworth, and more of thereal poet. But after…
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