All service is the same with God,
With God, whose puppets, best and worst,
Are we: there is no last nor first.
Of what I call God,
And fools call Nature.
"There is no god but God!—to prayer—lo!
God is great!"
A picket frozen on duty—
A mother starved for her brood—
Socrates drinking the hemlock,
And Jesus on the rood;
And millions who, humble and nameless,
The straight, hard pathway trod—
Some call it Consecration,
And others call it God.
Nihil est quod deus efficere non possit.
There is nothing which God cannot do.
God! sing, ye meadow-streams, with gladsome voice!
Ye pine-groves, with your soft and soul-like sounds!
And they too have a voice, yon piles of snow,
And in their perilous fall shall thunder, God!
God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things that are mighty.
I have planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase.
God moves in a mysterious way
His wonders to perform;
He plants his footsteps in the sea
And rides upon the storm.
God never meant that man should scale the Heavens
By strides of human wisdom. In his works,
Though wondrous, he commands us in his word
To seek him rather where his mercy shines.
But who with filial confidence inspired,
Can lift to Heaven an unpresumptuous eye,
And smiling say, My Father made them all.
Acquaint thyself with God, if thou would'st taste
His works. Admitted once to his embrace,
Thou shalt perceive that thou wast blind before:
Thine eye shall be instructed; and thine heart
Made pure shall relish with divine delight
Till then unfelt, what hands divine have wrought.
| author = Cowper
| work = Task. Bk. V. L. 782.
There is a God! the sky his presence shares,
His hand upheaves the billows in their mirth,
Destroys the mighty, yet the humble spares
And with contentment crowns the thought of
worth.
Charlotte Cushman—There is a God.
My God, my Father, and my Friend,
Do not forsake me in the end.
Wentworth Dillon—Translation of Dies Iras.
'Twas much, that man was made like God before:
But, that God should be made like man, much more.
By tracing Heaven his footsteps may be found:
Behold! how awfully he walks the round!
God is abroad, and wondrous in his ways
The rise of empires, and their fall surveys.
Too wise to err, too good to be unkind,—
Are all the movements of the Eternal Mind.
Rev. John East—Songs of My Pilgrimage.
| seealso = (See also Medley)
| topic = God
| page = 316
}}
{{Hoyt quote
| num = 18
| text = God is divine Principle, supreme incorporeal Being, Mind, Spirit, Soul, Life, Truth, Love.
| author = Mary B. G. Eddy
| work = Science and Health.
| place = Ch. XIV. Ed. 1906. P. 465.
| topic = God
| page = 316
}}
{{Hoyt quote
| num = 19
| text = There is no life, truth, intelligence, nor substance in matter. All is infinite Mind, and its infinite manifestation, for God is All in All. Spirit is immortal Truth; Matter is mortal error.
| author = Mary B. G. Eddy
| work = Science and Health.
| place = Ch. XIV. Ed. 1906. P. 468.
| seealso = (See also Koran)
| topic = God
| page = 316
}}
{{Hoyt quote
| num = 20
| text = When the Master of the universe has points to carry in his government he impresses his will in the structure of minds.
| author = Emerson
| work = Letters and Social Aims. Immortality.
| topic = God
| page = 316
}}
{{Hoyt quote
| num = 21
| text = He was a wise man who originated the idea of God.
| author = Euripides
| work = Sisyphus.
| seealso = (See also Voltaire)
| topic = God
| page = 316
}}
{{Hoyt quote
| num = 22
| text = <poem>Henceforth the Majesty of God revere;
Fear him and you have nothing else to fear.
Fordyce—Answer to a Gentleman who Apologized to the Author for Swearing.
| seealso = (See also Racine)
| topic = God
| page = 316
}}
{{Hoyt quote
| num = 23
| text = <poem>Wie einer ist, so ist sein Gott.
Darum ward Gott so oft zu Spott.
As a man is, so is his God; therefore God was so often an object of mockery.
