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 is a shower to the heart burnt up with grief, a sun to the face deluged with tears. Joseph Roux.

God is a sure paymaster. He may not pay 30 at the end of every week or month or year, but He pays in the end. Anne of Austria.

God is a tabula rasa, on which nothing more stands written than what thou thyself hast inscribed thereon. Luther.

God is at once the great original I and Thou. Jean Paul.

God is better served in resisting a temptation to evil than in many formal prayers. W. Penn.

God is goodness itself, and whatsoever is good is of Him. Sir P. Sidney.

God is glorified, not by our groans, but by our 35 thanksgivings; and all good thought and good action claim a natural alliance with good cheer. Willmott.

God is great, and we know Him not; neither can the number of His years be searched out. Bible.

God is great in what is the greatest and the smallest. Herder.

God is greater than man. Bible.