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And lips say God be pitiful, who never said, God be praised.


Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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SHANNON L. ALDER And touch'd their golden harps, and hymning praised God and his works.
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WALT WHITMAN Science is chasing God. God is hiding and will never be found. Is God a symbol of fear?
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ALFRE WOODARD There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, "Thy will be done," and those to whom God says,...
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BARBARA BOXER God be praised for his gracious long suffering towards me in sparing my life so long. Grant, graciou...
PATRICK GORDON And God said: Let there be light: and there was light.
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IMELDA MARCOS When God says no, be grateful, and say thank you.
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RICHARD DAWSON I have never met a man who refuses to be blessed by God. I have met many people who are not in capac...
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SUSIE L HILL God, and Parents, and our Master, can never be requited.
GEORGE HERBERT They say be parted well and paid his score, And so, God be with him.
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PATIENCE JOHNSON There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, 'Thy will be done' and those to whom God...
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SAINT PATRICK We do not have the right to make the name of God look bad by our pitiful and impoverished existence
SUNDAY ADELAJA What we ought be, we can be.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Facts are God's arguments; we should be careful never to misunderstand or pervert them.
TRYON EDWARDS ...You say to God, “I have never seen you provide for me.”
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THOMAS WATSON A man who does something bad will be judged by men and by God. A man who does something good will be...
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HARVEY MACKAY Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.
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CATHERINE WHITAKER It must never be forgotten that Almighty God rules this world. He is not an absentee God.
EDWARD MCKENDREE BOUNDS I do not doubt that we would become more useful if we praised God more, and others would join us, fo...
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GARY F EVANS... Since no one really knows what or who God is, or whether God is at all, why can't God be hope?
PHYLLIS REYNOLDS NAYLOR If God is for you, who can be against you? And I think God is for this football team.
LESTER RICARD If God be an infinite being, there cannot be, either in the present or future world, any relative pr...
BARON D'HOLBACH A man may go into the field and say his prayer and be aware of God, or he may be in Church and be aw...
MEISTER ECKHART I never wanted to be a God fearing person. I wanted to grow up and be a person that was fearless for...
SHANNON L. ALDER A God that can be understood is no God. Who can explain the Infinite in words?
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LILY TOMLIN Why is it that when we talk to God we’re said to be praying, but when God talks to us we’re schi...
LILY TOMLIN God grant that I may never live to be useless!
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SPIKE MILLIGAN Just be yourself, and enjoy the blessings that God's borne out on you.
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ISRAELMORE AYIVOR Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of children.
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ABU BAKR The LORD is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my strength, in whom I will trust; m...
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CATHERINE OF SIENA God never made women to be objects of men, so why should they be?
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AL FRANKEN To be praised by a man who has won his laurels.
GEORGE CHAPMAN I know I'm not God, are you? Don't be silly.
God? God? Everybody's God? Don't be silly.
ALLEN GINSBERG This life is too short for us to worry, when we can be happy.
TOMMY POLO To God, thy country, and thy friend be true.
BILL VAUGHAN Nature and nature's laws lay hid in night; God said "Let Newton be" and all was light.
ALEXANDER POPE Nature and nature's laws lay hid in night;God said "Let Newton be" and all was light.
ALEXANDER POPE Nature and nature’s laws lay hid in night; God said, Let Newton be, and all was light.
T.Z. LAVINE Nature and Nature’s Laws lay hid in Night; God said “Let Newton be!” and All was Light.
ROBERT P. CREASE He knew only that his child was his warrant. He said: If he is not the word of God God never spoke.
CORMAC MCCARTHY If God is One, and if there can be no other God, there can be no idea of God.
LEO STRAUSS You've got to be willing to forgive and say, 'God, get something good out of something bad.' And if ...
DON YOUNG A Human never become a God, since Human die but God never die, and God is infinite.
RASHID JORVEE Mankind will never be good enough to "choose" Jesus as Saviour. It takes the mercy and grace of God ...
NORM TOMLINSON I've never wanted to be loved. And God Knows no one's done it yet.
LISA KLEYPAS Everybody who seeks first the face of God and the Kingdom of God will be able to see, know and fulfi...
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ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height
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ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING My letters! all dead paper, mute and white!
And yet they seem alive and quivering
Against ...
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING O earth, so full of dreary noises! / O men, with wailing in your voices! / O delvèd gold, the waile...
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING All actual heroes are essential men, / And all men possible heroes...
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING I worked with patience which means almost power.
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING And I must bear What is ordained with patience, being aware Necessity doth front the universe ...
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Life treads on life, and heart on heart; We press too close in church and mart To keep a dream...
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING In this bad, twisted, topsy-turvy world, Where all the heaviest wrongs get uppermost.
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING The soul's Rialto hath its merchandise, I barter for curl upon that mart.
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height My soul c...
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING "There is no God," the foolish saith, But none, "There is no sorrow." And nature oft the cry of ...
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Light tomorrow with today.
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Thank God, bless God, all ye who suffer not More grief than ye can weep for. That is well-- T...
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING O, brothers! let us leave the shame and sin Of taking vainly in a plaintive mood, The holy na...
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Yet half the beast is the great god Pan, To laugh, as he sits by the river, Making a poet out ...
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING How he sleepeth! having drunken Weary childhood's mandragore, From his pretty eyes have sunke...
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Free men freely work: Whoever fears God, fears to sit at ease.
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Let no one till his death Be called unhappy. Measure not the work Until the day's out and the...
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING By the way, The works of women are symbolical. We sew, sew, prick our fingers, dull out sight,...
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING For poets (bear the word) Half-poets even, are still whole democrats.
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING There's not a crime But takes its proper change out still in crime If once rung on the counter...
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Yet here's eglantine, Here's ivy!--take them as I used to do Thy flowers, and keep them where ...
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING The flower-girl's prayer to buy roses and pinks, Held out in the smoke, like stars by day.
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Get leave to work In this world,--'tis the best you get at all.
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Eyes of gentianellas azure, Staring, winking at the skies.
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you. I love you not only for ...
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING What's the Greek name for Swine's Snout?
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Did you think of that? Who burns his viol will not dance, I know. To cymbals, Romney.
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Italy/Is one thing, England one.
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Good aims not always make good books.
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING We get no good by being ungenerous, even to a book, and calculating profits...so much help by so muc...
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING A cheerful genius suits the times, / And all true poets laugh unquenchably / Like Shakespeare and th...
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING I take her as God made her, and as men Must fail to unmake her, for my honoured wife.
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING The world of books is still the world.
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING She lived, we'll say,
A harmless life, she called a
virtuous life,
A quiet life, whi...
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING OF writing many books there is no end;
And I who have written much in prose and verse
For ...
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Witch, scholar, poet, dreamer, and the rest...
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Books, books, books!
I had found the secret of a garret room
Piled high with cases in my f...
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING World's use is cold, world's love is vain, world's cruelty is bitter bane; but is not the fruit of p...
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING The devil's most devilish when respectable
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Life treads on life, and heart on heart: We press too close in church and mart, To keep a dream or g...
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING God's gifts put men's best dreams to shame.
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Quick-loving hearts ... may quickly loathe.
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING You were made perfectly to be loved and surely I have loved you in the idea of you my whole life lon...
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING O Life,
How oft we throw it off and think, — 'Enough,
Enough of life in so much! — her...
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING