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's justice, tardy though it prove perchance, / Rests never on the track till it reach / Delinquency. Browning.

God's men are better than the devil's men, and 10 they ought to act as though they thought they were. Ward Beecher.

God's mill grinds slow but sure. George Herbert.

God's mills grind slow, but they grind woe. Eastern saying.

God's providence is on the side of clear heads. Ward Beecher.

God's sovereignty is not in His right hand or His intellect, but His love. Ward Beecher.

Gods water over Gods akker laten loopen—Let 15 God's waters run over God's fields. Dut. Pr.

God's way of making worlds is to make them make themselves. Prof. Drummond.

Godfrey sent the thief that stole the cash away, / And punished him that put it in his way. Pope.

"Godlike men love lightning;" godless men love it not; shriek murder when they see it, shutting their eyes, and hastily putting on smoked spectacles. Carlyle.