Best His Works Sayings
87 His Works quotes by 81 unique authors
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In all God's providences, it is good to compare His word and His works together; for we shall find a beautiful harmony between them, and…
— Matthew Henry
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Vicissitudes of fortune, which spares neither man nor the proudest of his works, which buries empires and cities in a common grave.
— Edward Gibbon
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Behind the cloud the starlight lurks, Through showers the sunbeams fall; For God, who loveth all his works, Has left his Hope with all.
— John Greenleaf Whittier
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It is strange how the memory of a man may float to posterity on what he would have himself regarded as the most trifling of…
— William Osler
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Wilderness appealed to those bored or disgusted with man and his works. It not only offered an escape from society but also was an ideal…
— Roderick Nash
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Of no agenor of any religion, or party or profession. The body and substance of his works came out of the unfathomable depths of his…
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Every author in some way portrays himself in his works, even if it be against his will.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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But if I were to say who influenced me most, then I'd say Franz Kafka. And his works were always anchored in the Central European…
— Vaclav Havel
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Thomas Jefferson once said, 'We should never judge a president by his age, only by his works.' And ever since he told me that, I…
— Ronald Reagan
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He is the greatest artist who has embodied, in the sum of his works, the greatest number of the greatest ideas.
— John Ruskin
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Until the 20th century it was generally assumed that a writer had said what he had to say in his works.
— John Updike
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In every author let us distinguish the man from his works.
— Voltaire
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We need no fanciful teaching regarding the personality of God. What God desires us to know of Him is revealed in His word and His…
— Ellen G. White
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Every secret of a writer's soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works.
— Virginia Woolf
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For three things I thank God every day of my life: thanks that he has vouchsafed me knowledge of his works; deep thanks that he…
— Helen Keller
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I would rather be attacked than unnoticed. For the worst thing you can do to an author is to be silent as to his works.
— Samuel Johnson
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Minister: Welcome, brother! Do you reject Satan and all his works? Bunny Breckinridge: Sure.
— Tim Burton
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If religious books are not widely circulated among the masses in this country, I do not know what is going to become of us as…
— Daniel Webster
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I am a great and sublime fool. But then I am God's fool, and all His works must be contemplated with respect.
— Mark Twain
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We know that God is everywhere; but certainly we feel His presence most when His works are on the grandest scale spread before us; and…
— Charlotte Bronte
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All these, however, were mere terrors of the night, phantoms of the mind that walk in darkness; and though he had seen many spectres in…
— Washington Irving
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Prayer that craves a particular commodity—anything less than all good, is vicious. Prayer is the contemplation of the facts of life from the highest point…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Since God is the highest good, he would not allow any evil to exist in his works unless his omnipotence and goodness were such as…
— Saint Augustine
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I perceive God everywhere in His works. I sense Him in me; I see Him all around me.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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They learned to have a very high opinion of God and a very low opinion of His works—although they could tell you that this world…
— Wendell Berry
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