Look down you gods, and on this couple drop a blessed crown.- from The Tempest
Look down you gods, and on this couple drop a blessed crown.- from The Tempest
Praise God, from whom all blessings flow! Praise Him, all creatures here below! Praise Him above, ye heavenly host! Praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost!
Whatever God would want me to do... love each other and help others. I want to add, not take away.
In all thou dost first let thy prayers ascend, and to the Gods thy labors first commend, from them implore success, and hope a prosperous end.
God forbid that any book should be banned. The practice is as indefensible as infanticide.
It has been wisely said, 'Service is the rent we pay for our own room on earth.' We should know that the rent is due on a daily basis and know that the receipt is never stamped 'paid in full,' because the rent, service in Gods kingdom, is again due today and due tomorrow.
studies the Word of God hours and hours a day and has for 30 years.
I'm not a God, I make mistakes.
Their kitchen is their shrine, the cook their priest, the table their altar, and their belly their god.
Joseph is a fruitful bough, even a fruitful bough by a well whose branches run over the wall The archers have sorely grieved him, and shot at him, and hated him But his bow abode in strength, and the arms of his hands were made strong by the hands of the mighty God of Jacob (from thence is the shepherd, the stone of Israel) Even by the God of thy father, who shall help thee and by the Almighty, who shall bless thee with blessings of heaven above, blessings of the deep that lieth under, blessings of the breasts, and of the womb The blessings of thy father have prevailed above the blessings of my progenitors unto the utmost bound of the everlasting hills they shall be on the head of Joseph, and on the crown of the head of him that was separate from his brethren.
The body will shine if the character is fine service of man and worship of God will preserve its charm.
I have come to realize that God is sovereign, and there are things I just don't understand.
Historically, blasphemy has always been identified with criticizing, denigrating, or marginalizing the sacred, and in Jewish and Christian tradition it's connected with profaning the name of God, or persons such as Jesus or the Holy Spirit, or even teaching connected with the God of the Bible. It's the kind of categorical expression for vast disrespect of the most sacred and holy things in our faith.
To have faith is to believe in truth, believe that truth confers special power on those lucky enough to get a little insight, and to know in our hearts that all these things come from God, which is why we should never get too cocky about our successes.
In the nineteenth century the problem was that God is dead. In the twentieth century the problem is that man is dead.
The soul can split the sky in two and let the face of God shine through.
God talks incessantly. But, as it turns out, mankind is deaf.
Man appoints, and God disappoints.
Every creature is a word of God.
And when those who disbelieved devised plans against you that they might confine you or slay you or drive you away and they devised plans and Allah too had arranged a plan and Allah is the best of planners.
Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals.
Our young people have come to look upon war as a kind of beneficent deity, which not only adds to the national honor but uplifts a nation and develops patriotism and courage.
How can I go on with this? Please God, let me win a football pool.
Second, we also got a more authentic liturgy of the people of God, in the vernacular language.
Love beauty it is the shadow of God on the universe.
So be it. God created profoundly fallible creatures on this earth, and human history is mostly the story of error and accident.
To Nature I will pay my debt
With stoic laughter:
But spare me, God, your awful threat
Of Life Here-after!
Something sacred, that's it. We ought to be able to say that such and such a painting is as it is, with its capacity for power, because it is 'touched by God.'
God gives every bird his worm, but He does not throw it into the nest.
Would you convey my compliments to the purist who reads your proofs and tell him or her that I write in a sort of broken-down patois which is something like the way a Swiss waiter talks, and that when I split an infinitive, God damn it, I split it so it will stay split, and when I interrupt the velvety smoothness of my more or less literate syntax with a few sudden words of bar-room vernacular, that is done with the eyes wide open and the mind relaxed but attentive.
Men are passionate, men are weak, men are stupid, men are pitiful to bring to bear on them anything so tremendous as the wrath of God seems strangely inept
He who is a slave to his stomach seldom worships God.
He's our fifth-string tailback. Kenny, God bless him, has the heart of a lion, but he's 5-foot-5, 125 pounds. We were at the point where we just wanted to reach down and pound it out, and we're stuck without our first three tailbacks.
I hope in God, I pray on, and look yet for the answer. They are not converted yet, but they will be.
God is no fonder of intellectual slackers than He is of any other slacker.
This was perhaps, among other things, an acknowledgement of the role played by Ministers of the Word of God in creating the conditions for reconciliation and peace. It attests to the power of the Word, under the action of the Holy Spirit, to make all things new,
These are the communications of Allah which We recite to you with truth then in what announcement would they believe after Allah and His communications Woe to every sinful liar, Who hears the communications of Allah recited to him, then persists proudly as though he had not heard them so announce to him a painful punishment.
The theologian considers sin mainly as an offence against God; the moral philosopher as contrary to reasonableness.
You desire that which exceeds my humble powers, but I trust in the compassion and mercy of the All-powerful God.
The noblest work of God Man. Who found it out Man.
Christianity stands or falls as a living program, a way of life, made concrete in the life of man by the life of God through the life of the concretely living Christ.
The awesomeness of God is that even in the works of the Beach Boys, Beatles, etc., the beauty of the music is a mere reflection of what God does everyday. He creates music of all kinds and moods.
God told us to share his word.
They make other nations seem pale and flighty, But they do think England is God almighty, And you must remind them now and then; That other countries breed other men.
America was founded by people who believe that God was their rock of safety. I recognize we must be cautious in claiming that God is on our side, but I think it's all right to keep asking if we're on His side.
A little round, fat, oily man of God.
But Lancelot mused a little space; He said, 'She has a lovely face; God in his mercy lend her grace, The Lady of Shalott.'
Man, as long as he lives, is immortal. One minute before his death he shall be immortal. But one minute later, God wins.
I don't know the answer to that. We just put our faith in God.
I pray God may preserve your health and life many years.
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