“Only one thing is necessary in your anguish: bear everything with resignation to the Divine Will; for this will help you to attain your eternal salvation. Hope with a lively faith and you will receive everything from Almighty God.”
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“Only one thing is necessary in your anguish: bear everything with resignation to the Divine Will; for this will help you to attain your eternal salvation. Hope with a lively faith and you will receive everything from Almighty God.”
“Death is not a journey into an unknown land; it is a voyage home. We are going, not to a strange country, but to our fathers house.”
“Nature is the art of God”
“Every man's life is a fairytale written by God's fingers”
“The wrath of the lion is the wisdom of God”
“Jesus was all virtue, and acted from impulse, not from rules”
“It is not because angels are holier than men or devils that makes them angels, but because they do not expect holiness from one another, but from God only”
“The voice of honest indignation is the voice of God”
“The pride of the peacock is the glory of God.”
“The idea that a good God would send people to a burning hell is utterly damnable to me - the ravings of insanity, superstition gone to see! I want no part of such a God”
“God answers sharp and sudden on some prayers, and thrusts the thing we have prayed for in our face, a gauntlet with a gift in it ”
“Earth's crammed with heaven, and every common bush afire with God; but only he who sees, takes off his shoes - the rest sit round it and pluck blackberries”
“In all ranks of life the human heart yearns for the beautiful; and the beautiful things that God makes are his gift to all alike”
“I would not attack the faith of a heathen without being sure I had a better one to put in its place”
“Men judge us by the success of our efforts. God looks at the efforts themselves”
“When men destroy their old gods they will find new ones to take their place”
“A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent”
“God is seen God In the star, in the stone, in the flesh, in the soul and the clod”
“If you get simple beauty and nought else, you get about the best thing God invents”
“God be thanked, the meanest of his creatures boasts two soul-sides, one to face the world with, one to show a woman when he loves her”