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GOD
GOD
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From Piety, whose soul sincere
Fears God, and knows no other fear.

W. SmythOde for the Installation of the Duke of Gloucester as Chancellor of Cambridge.
(See also Racine)


2

Ad majorem Dei gloriam.

For the greater glory of God.

Motto of the Society of Jesus.


3

The divine essence itself is love and wisdom.

SwedenborgDivine Love and Wisdom. Par. 28.


4

God, the Great Giver, can open the whole universe to our gaze in the narrow space of a single lane.

Rabindranath TagoreJivan-smitri.


5

Ha sotto i piedi il Fato e la Natura.

Ministri umili; e'l moto e chi'l misura. Under whose feet (subjected to His grace), Sit nature, fortune, motion, time, and place. Tasso—Gerusalemme. IX. 56. </poem>


At last I heard a voice upon the slope
Cry to the summit, "Is there any hope?"
To which an answer pealed from that high land,
But in a tongue no man could understand;
And on the glimmering limit far withdrawn,
Grid made himself an awful rose of dawn.
Tenntson—Vision of Sin. V.


I fled Him, down the nights and down the days;
I fled Him, down the arches of the years;
I fled Him, down the labyrinthine ways
Of my own mind; and in the midst of tears
I hid from Him, and under running laughter.
Francis Thompson—The Hound of Heaven.


But I lose
Myself in Him, in Light ineffable!
Come then, expressive Silence, muse His praise.
These, as they change, Almighty Father, these
Are but the varied God. The rolling Year
Is full of Thee.
Thomson—Hymn. L. 116.


What, but God?
Inspiring God! who boundless Spirit all,
And unremitting Energy, pervades,
Adjusts, sustains, and agitates the whole.
Thomson—The Seasons. Spring. L. 849.


The being of God is so comfortable, so convenient, so necessary to the felicity of Mankind, that, (as Tully admirably says) Dii immortales ad usum hominum fabricati pene videantur, if God were not a necessary being of himself, he might almost seem to be made on purpose for the use and benefit of men.
Archbishop Tillotson—Works. Sermon 93.
Vol. I. P. 696. (Ed. 1712) Probable
origin of Voltaire's phrase.
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Rock of Ages, cleft for me.
Let me hide myself in thee.
Augustus Toplady—Living and Dying Prayer.
"Rock of Ages" is trans, from the Hebrew of
"everlasting strength." Isaiah. XXVI. 4.
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immortal soul; that as the heart was made for
Him, so He only can fill it.
Richard Chenevtx Trench—Notes on the
Parables. Prodigal Son.


God, from a beautiful necessity, is Love.
Tupper—Of Immortality.


I believe that there is no God, but that matter
is God and God is matter; and that it is no matter
whether there is any God or no.
The Unbeliever's Creed. Connoisseur No. IX,
March 28, 1764.
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 | text = <poem>Si genus humanum et mortalia tenonitis arma,
At sperate deos memores fandi atque nefandi.
If ye despise the human race, and mortal
arms, yet remember that there is a God who
is mindful of right and wrong.
Vergil—Æneid. I. 542.


Si Dieu n'existait pas, il faudrait l'inventer.

If there were no God, it would be necessary to invent him. Voltaire—Epitre A VAuteur du Livre des Trois Impostewrs. CXI. See (Enures Completes de Voltaire. Vol. I. P. 1076. Ed. Didot, 1827. Also in letter to Frederick, Prince Royal of Prussia.

(See also Euripides, Ttllotson)


Je voudrais que vous ecrasassiez l'infame.
I wish that you would crush this infamy.
Voltaire to D'Alembert June 23, 1760.
Attributed to Voltatbe by Abbe Babbuch
—Memoirs Illustrating the History of Jacobinism. Generally quoted "Ecrasez l'infame." A. De Morgan contends that the
popular idea that it refers to God is incorrect.
It refers probably to the Roman Catholic
Church, or the traditions in the church.


God on His throne is eldest of poets:
Unto His measures moveth the Whole.

William WatsonEngland my Mother. Pt. II.


The God I know of, I shall ne'er
Know, though he dwells exceeding nigh.
Raise thou the stone and find me there,
Cleave thou the wood and there am I.
Yea, in my flesh his spirit doth flow,
Too near, too far, for me to know.

William WatsonThe Unknown God. Third and fourth lines are from "newly discovered sayings of Jesus." Probably an ancient Oriental proverb.


The Somewhat which we name but cannot know.
Ev'n as we name a star and only see
Its quenchless flashings forth, which ever show
And ever hide him, and which are not he.

William WatsonWordsworth's Grave. I. St. 6.