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GOD
GOD
1

Sire, je n'avais besoin de cet hypothèse.

Sire, I had no need for that hypothesis.

 La Place to Napoleon, who asked why God was not mentioned in Traite de la Méchanique Céleste.


2

Denn Gott lohnt Gutes, hier gethan, auch hier noch.

For God rewards good deeds done here below—rewards them here.

LessingNathan der Weise. I. 2.


3

"We trust, Sir, that God is on our side." "It is more important to know that we are on God's side."

Lincoln Reply to deputation of Southerners during Civil War.
(See also Whately under Truth)


4

God had sifted three kingdoms to find the wheat for this planting.

LongfellowThe Courtship of Miles Standish. IV.


An' you've gut to git up airly
Ef you want to take in God.
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No. 1. St. 5.


Estne dei sedes nisi terra et pontus et aer
Et coelum et virtus? Superos quid quEerimus ultra?
Jupiter est quodcumque vides, quodcumque moveris.
Is there any other seat of the Divinity than
the earth, sea, air, the heavens, and virtuous
minds? why do we seek God elsewhere? He is
whatever you see; he is wherever you move;
LucAN—Pharsalia. IX. 578.


Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott
Ein gute Wehr und Waffen,
Er hilf t uns f rei aus aller Not,
Die uns jetzt hat betroffen.
A mighty fortress is our God,
A bulwark never failing,
Our helper he amid the flood
Of mortal ills prevailing.
Martin Luther—Ein feste Burg. Trans, by
F. H. Hedge.
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 | text = I fear no foe with Thee at hand to bless;
His have no weight, and tears no bitterness.
Henry Francis Lyte—Eventide.


A voice in the wind I do not know'
A meaning on the face of the high hills
Whose utterance I cannot comprehend.
A something is behind them : that is God.
George MacDonald—Within and Without,.
Pt. I. Sc. 1.


Exemplumque dei quisque est in imagine parva.
Every one is in a small way the image of God.
Mantlius—Astronomica. IV. 895.
Quis coelum possit nisi coeli munera nosse?
Et reperire deum nisi qui pars ipse deorum est?
Who can know heaven except by its gifts?
and who can find out God, unless the man who
is himself an emanation from God?
MANiLro«—Astronomica. II. 115.


The Lord who gave us Earth and Heaven
Takes that as thanks for all He's given.
The book he lent is given back
All blotted red and smutted black.
Masefteld—Everlasting Mercy. St. 27.


One sole God;
One sole ruler,—his Law;
One sole interpreter of that law—Humanity.
Mazzini—Life and Writings. Young Europe.
General Principles. No. 1.


Too wise to be mistaken still
Too good to be unkind.

Samuel MedleyHymn of God.
(See also East)


What in me is dark,
Illumine; what is low, raise and support;
That to the height of this great argument
I may assert eternal Providence,
And justify the ways of God to men.

MiltonParadise Lost. Bk. I. L. 22.
(See also Pope)


These are thy glorious works, Parent of good.

MiltonParadise Lost. Bk. V. L. 153.


Who best
Bear his mild yoke, they serve him best: his state
Is kingly; thousands at his bidding speed,
And post o'er land and ocean without rest.

MiltonSonnet. On His Blindness.


Gott-trunkener Mensch.

A God-intoxicated man.

 Novalis (of Spinoza).


Trumpeter, sound for the splendour of God!
Trumpeter, rally us, up to the heights of it!
Sound for the City of God.
Alfred Noyes—Trumpet Call. Last lines.


Est deus in nobis; et sunt commercia coeli.
There is a God within us and intercourse
with heaven.
Ovid—Ars Amatoria. Bk. III. 549.
(Milton's "Looks commercing with the skies"
said to be inspired by this phrase.)
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There is a God within us, and we glow when
he stirs us.
Ovid—Fasti. Bk. VI. 5.


Sed tamen ut fuso taurorum sanguine centum,
Sic capitur minimo thuris honore deux.
As God is propitiated by the blood of a hundred bulls, so also is he by the smallest offering of incense.
Ovid—Tristium. II. 75.