"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."

"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 moves in a mysterious way His wonders to perform; He plants his footsteps in the sea And rides upon the storm."

"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."

"My God, my Father, and my Friend, Do not forsake me in the end."

"'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."

"God is divine Principle, supreme incorporeal Being, Mind, Spirit, Soul, Life, Truth, Love."

"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."

"When the Master of the universe has points to carry in his government he impresses his will in the structure of minds."

"He was a wise man who originated the idea of God."

"Henceforth the Majesty of God revere; Fear him and you have nothing else to fear."

"Wie einer ist, so ist sein Gott, Darum ward Gott so oft zu Spott."

"I know My God commands, whose power no power resists."

"Some men treat the God of their fathers as they treat their father's friend. They do not deny him; by no means: they only deny themselves to him, when he is good enough to call upon them."

"I askt the seas and all the deeps below My God to know, I askt the reptiles, and whatever is In the abyss; Even from the shrimps to the leviathan Enquiry ran; But in those deserts that no line can sound The God I sought for was not to be found."

"Forgetful youth! but know, the Power above With ease can save each object of his love; Wide as his will, extends his boundless grace."

"O thou, whose certain eye foresees The fix'd event of fate's remote decrees."

"Dangerous it were for the feeble brain of man to wade far into the doings of the Most High; whom although to know be life, and joy to make mention of his name, yet our soundest knowledge is to know that we know him not as indeed he is, neither can know him; and our safest eloquence concerning him is our silence, when we confess without confession that his glory is inexplicable, his greatness above our capacity and reach."

"But if the sky were paper and a scribe each star above, And every scribe had seven hands, they could not write all my love."

"From thee, great God, we spring, to thee we tend,— Path, motive, guide, original, and end."

"The sun and every vassal star, All space, beyond the soar of angel's wings, Wait on His word: and yet He stays His car For every sigh a contrite suppliant brings."

"Nam homo proponit, sed Deus disponit."

"O God, I am thinking Thy thoughts after Thee."

"All but God is changing day by day."

"L'impossibilité où je suis de prouver que Dieu n'est pas, me decouvre son existence."

"Sire, je n'avais besoin de cet hypothèse."

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

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

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

"Estne dei sedes nisi terra et pontus et aër Et cœlum et virtus? Superos quid quærimus ultra? Jupiter est quodcumque vides, quodcumque moveris."

"Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott Ein gute Wehr und Waffen, Er hilft uns frei aus aller Not, Die uns jetzt hat betroffen."

"I fear no foe with Thee at hand to bless; Ills have no weight, and tears no bitterness."

"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."

"Exemplumque dei quisque est in imagine parva."

"Quis cœlum possit nisi cœli munera nosse? Et reperire deum nisi qui pars ipse deorum est?"

"One sole God; One sole ruler,—his Law; One sole interpreter of that law—Humanity."

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

"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."

"Gott-trunkener Mensch."

"Trumpeter, sound for the splendour of God! . . . . . . Trumpeter, rally us, up to the heights of it! Sound for the City of God."

"Est deus in nobis; et sunt commercia cœli."

"Est deus in nobis: agitante calescimus illo."

"Sed tamen ut fuso taurorum sanguine centum, Sic capitur minimo thuris honore deux."

"Nihil ita sublime est, supraque pericula tendit Non sit ut inferius suppositumque deo."

"One on God's side is a majority."

"Est profecto deus, qui, quæ nos gerimus, auditque et videt."