God Quote by Herman Melville

God help thee, old man, thy thoughts have created a creature in thee; and he whose intense thinking thus makes him a Prometheus; a…

— Herman Melville

“God not only gives His creatures being and existence, but also, and at every moment, upholds and sustains them in being.”

— The Catechism of the Catholic Church

“The name Prometheus has always caused me particular annoyance, for my breast still aches from the everlasting beak of the vulture from which Alcides…

— Gérard de Nerval

“The sea had jeeringly kept his finite body up, but drowned the infinite of his soul. Not drowned entirely, though. Rather carried down alive…

— Herman Melville

“Science! true daughter of Old Time thou art! Who alterest all things with thy peering eyes. Why preyest thou thus upon the poet's heart,…

— Edgar Allen Poe

“How can I move thee? Will no entreaties cause thee to turn a favourable eye upon thy creature, who implores thy goodness and compassion?…

— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

“Even the worm that crawls in the Earth there glows a divine spark. When you slaughter a creature, you slaughter your God.”

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

“O God, what offering shall I give To Thee, the Lord of earth and skies? My spirit, soul, and flesh receive, A holy, living…

— Joachim Lange

“My own dim life should teach me this, That life shall live for evermore, Else earth is darkness at the core, And dust and…

— Alfred Tennyson

“Then said the giant, "Thou practices the craft of a kidnapper. Thou gatherest up woman and children and carriest them into a strange country,…

— John Bunyan

“only he whose thoughts are controlled and purified, can make the winds and the storms of the soul obey him.”

— Jeff Wheeler

“And if you but listen in the stillness of the night, you shall hear them saying in silence, 'Our God, who art our winged…

— Khalil Gibran