Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources / Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them

by Rev. James Wood

God gives strength to bear a great deal, if we only strive ourselves to endure. Hans Andersen.

God gives the will; necessity gives the law. Dan. Pr.

God gives us love. Something to love / He 45 lends us; but when love is grown / To ripeness, that on which it throve / Falls off, and love is left alone. Tennyson.

God giveth speech to all, song to the few. Dr. Walter Smith.

God grant you fortune, my son, for knowledge avails you little. Sp. Pr.

God hands gifts to some, whispers them to others. W. R. Alger.

God hangs the greatest weights on the smallest wires. Bacon.

God has been pleased to prescribe limits to His 50 own power, and to work out His ends within these limits. Paley.

God has commanded time to console the unhappy. Joubert.

God has connected the labour which is essential to the bodily sustenance with the pleasures which are healthiest for the heart; and while He made the ground stubborn, He made its herbage fragrant and its blossoms fair. Ruskin.