Emily Dickinson Quotes on God (24 Quotes)

And perish on the Day
Himself is borne away
From Mansion of the Universe
A lifeless Deity.

But during March and April
None stir abroad
Without a cordial interview
With God.

Bless God, he went as soldiers,
His musket on his breast --
Grant God, he charge the bravest
Of all the martial blest!

I never saw a moor, I never saw the sea Yet know I how the heather looks, And what a wave must be. I never spoke with God, Nor visited in heaven Yet certain am I of the spot As if the chart were given.

Double Estate -- entailed at pleasure
Upon an unsuspecting Heir --
Duke in a moment of Deathlessness
And God, for a Frontier.

Who has not found the heaven below Will fail of it above. Gods residence is next to mine His furniture is love.

I had some things that I called mine --
And God, that he called his,
Till, recently a rival Claim
Disturbed these amities.

Spring is the Period
Express from God.

The Red upon the Hill
Taketh away my will --
If anybody sneer --
Take care -- for God is here --
That's all.

Oozed so in crimson bubbles
Day's departing tide --
Blooming -- tripping -- flowing
Are ye then with God?

My soul, to find them, come,
They cannot call, they're dumb,
Nor prove, nor woo,
But that they have abode
Is absolute as God,
And instant, too.

They say that God is everywhere, and yet we always think of Him as somewhat of a recluse.

If "God is Love" as he admits
We think that me must be
Because he is a "jealous God"
He tells us certainly

Two swimmers wrestled on the spar --
Until the morning sun --
When One -- turned smiling to the land --
Oh God!

God gave a loaf to every bird, But just a crumb to me.

Groped up, to see if God was there --
Groped backward at Himself
Caressed a Trigger absently
And wandered out of Life.

Of Consciousness, her awful Mate
The Soul cannot be rid --
As easy the secreting her
Behind the Eyes of God.

All things do go a courting, in earth, or sea, or air,
God hath made nothing single but thee in His world so fair!

Please God, might I behold him
In epauletted white --
I should not fear the foe then --
I should not fear the fight!

Light swung the silver fleeces
"Peniel" Hills beyond,
And the bewildered Gymnast
Found he had worsted God!

Would not a God of Flint
Be conscious of a sigh
As down His Heaven dropt remote
"Just Once" Sweet Deity?

They perished in the Seamless Grass --
No eye could find the place --
But God can summon every face
Of his Repealless -- List.

Twice have I stood a beggar
Before the door of God!

A Chief indifference, as Foreign
A World must be
Themselves forsake -- contented,
For Deity.