Quotes
Quotes about God
What though the spicy breezes Blow soft o'er Ceylon's isle; Though every prospect pleases, And only man is vile; In vain with lavish kindness The gifts of God are strown; The heathen in his blindness Bows down to wood and stone.
Ay, call it holy ground, The soil where first they trod, They have left unstained, what there they found,-- Freedom to worship God.
As the skull of the man grows broader, so do his creeds. And his gods they are shaped in his image and mirror his needs. And he clothes them with thunders and beauty, He clothes them with music and fire, Seeing not, as he bows by their altars, That he worships his own desire.
For all of the creeds are false, and all of the creeds are true; And low at the shrines where my brothers bow, there will I bow too; For no form of a god, and no fashion Man has made in his desperate passion, But is worthy some worship of mine; Not too hot with a gross belief, Nor yet too cold with pride, I will bow me down where my brothers bow, Humble, but open eyed.
Together kneeling, night and day, Thou, for my sake, at Allah's shrine, And I--at any God's for thine.
Yet, if he would, man cannot live all to this world. If not religious, he will be superstitious. IF he worship not the true God, he will have his idols.
WRATH, n. Anger of a superior quality and degree, appropriate to exalted characters and momentous occasions; as, "the wrath of God," "the day of wrath," etc. . . .
Neither man nor God is going to tell me what to write.
In all ranks of life the human heart yearns for the beautiful; and the beautiful things that God makes are his gift to all alike.
For I bear them record that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge.
A Spirit, zealous, as he seemed, to know More of the Almighty's works, and chiefly Man, God's latest image.
But zeal moved thee; To please thy gods thou didst it!
If I had obeyed God, as I have obeyed him, He would not have punished me.
Had I but served my God with half the zeal I served my King, He would not in mine age Have left me naked to mine enemies.
