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 should be the object of all our desires, 45 the end of all our actions, the principle of all our affections, and the governing power of our whole souls. Massillon.

God, sir, he gart kings ken that there was a lith in their neck. Boswell's father of Cromwell.

God stays long, but strikes at last. Pr.

God taketh an account of all things. Koran.

God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb. Sterne.

God the first garden made, and the first city 50 Cain. Cowley.

God, through the voice of Nature, calls the mass of men to be happy; He calls a few among them to the grander task of being severely but serenely sad. W. R. Greg.

God trusts every one with the care of his own soul. Sc. Pr.

God will accept your first attempt, not as a perfect work, but as a beginning. Ward Beecher.

God will not make Himself manifest to cowards. Emerson.