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God Quotes by William Ellery Channing
- Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
- God be thanked for books; they are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past…
- God is another name for human intelligence raised above all error and imperfection, and extended to all possible truth.
- The mind, in proportion as it is cut off from free communication with nature, with revelation, with God, with itself, loses its life, just as…
- It is chiefly through books that we enjoy the communion with superior minds... In the best books, authors talk to us, give us their most…
- Our leading principle in interpreting Scripture is this, that the Bible is a book written for men, in the language of men, and that its…
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