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God Quotes by Thomas Stearns Eliot
- I do not know much about gods; but I think that the river is a strong brown god-sullen, untamed and intractable, Patient to some degree,…
- But it seems that something has happened that has never happened before; though we know not just when, or why, or how, or where. Men…
- A wrong attitude toward nature implies, somewhere, a wrong attitude toward God.
- I said to my soul, be still, and let the dark come upon you Which shall be the darkness of God. . . . So…
- The hippopotamus's day Is passed in sleep; at night he hunts; God works in a mysterious way- The Church can sleep and feed at once.
- Religion, as distinguished from modern paganism, implies a life in conformity with nature. It may be observed that the natural life and the supernatural life…
- I do not know much about gods; but I think that the river Is a strong brown god-sullen, untamed and intractable.
- A wrong attitude towards nature implies, somewhere, a wrong attitude towards God, and that the consequence is an inevitable doom. For a long enough time…
- Men have left GOD not for other gods, they say, but for no God; and this has never happened before.
- Destiny waits in the hand of God, not in the hands of statesmen.
- When the gods know that a god hath fallen, With this kindly feeling They do encourage him-- Be thou a god again and again.
- The endless cycle of idea and action, Endless invention, endless experiment, Brings knowledge of motion, but not of stillness; Knowledge of speech, but not of…
- If you will not have God (and He is a jealous God), you should pay your respects to Hitler or Stalin.
- …Forgive us, O Lord, we acknowledge ourselves as type of the common man, Of the men and women who shut the door and sit by…
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