Alexander Pope Quotes on God (22 Quotes)

Loud thunder to its bottom shook the bog, And the hoarse nation croaked, God save King Log'

An atheist is but a mad, ridiculous derider of piety, but a hypocrite makes a sober jest of God and religion he finds it easier to be upon his knees than to rise to a good action.

What blessings thy free bounty gives
Let me not cast away;
For God is paid when man receives;
T' enjoy is to obey.

An honest man's the noblest work of God.

Men would be angels, angels would be gods.

Say first, of God above, or man below,
What can we reason, but from what we know?

Pride is still aiming at the best houses: Men would be angels, angels would be gods. Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell; aspiring to be angels men rebel.

The people' voice is odd, It is, and it is not, the voice of God.

Yes, I am proud I must be proud to see Men not afraid of God, afraid of me.

Ambition first sprung from your bless'd abodes; The glorious fault of angels and of gods.

Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell,
Aspiring to be angels, men rebel:
And who but wishes to invert the laws
Of order, sins against th' Eternal Cause.

Ambition first sprung from your blest abodes The glorious fault of Angels and of Gods.

A Wit's a feather, and a Chief a rod An honest Man's the noblest work of God.

From Peer or Bishop 'tis no easy thing
To draw the man who loves his God, or King:
Alas!

The jealous God, when we profane his fires,
Those restless passions in revenge inspires;
And bids them make mistaken mortals groan,
Who seek in love for aught but love alone.

Once like thyself, I trembled, wept, and pray'd,
Love's victim then, though now a sainted maid:
But all is calm in this eternal sleep;
Here grief forgets to groan, and love to weep,
Ev'n superstition loses ev'ry fear:
For God, not man, absolves our frailties here.

She moves a goddess, and she looks a queen.

Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, But looks through Nature up to Nature's God.

Pride still is aiming at the blest abodes,
Men would be angels, angels would be gods.

Is the great chain, that draws all to agree,
And drawn supports, upheld by God, or thee?

Laugh where we must, be candid where we can But vindicate the ways of God to man.

Nature and nature's laws lay hid in the night. God said, Let Newton be! and all was light!