God quotes

Yo nac |¤ un d|¤a que Dios estuvo enfermo. I was born on a day God was sick.

-Vallejo, Ce¤  sarAbraham
  Los heraldos negros (translated asThe Black Heralds,1990), 'Espergesia'.

Man is the shuttle, to whose winding quest And passage through these looms God ordered motion, but ordained no rest.

-Vaughan, Henry
  Silex Scintillans,'Man'.

Vae, puto deus fio. Dear me, I must be turning into a god.

-Vespasian full name Titus FlaviusVespasianus
AD 79  Attributed last words. Quoted in SuetoniusVespasian, 23 (translated by Robert Graves,1967).

Dieu n'est pas pour les gros bataillons, mais pour ceux qui tirent le mieux. God is on the side not of the big battalions, but of the best shots.

-Voltaire pseudonym of  Fran c° ois Marie Arouet
InVoltaire's Notebooks, edited by Th. Besterman (1952).

Si Dieu n'existait pas, il faudrait l'inventer. If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.

-Voltaire pseudonym of  Fran c° ois Marie Arouet
' Ep|"  tres,'A l'Auteur du Livre desTrois Imposteurs'.

She say,Celie, tell the truth, have you ever found God in church? I never did. I just found a bunch of folks hoping for himtoshow. Any God I ever felt in church I brought in with me. And I think all the other folks did too. They come to church to share God, not find God.

-Walker, Alice Malsenior
  Shug.The Color Purple.

   God isregistered tovote for Hollywood as a Republican. However,Jesus Christ is a Democrat from Santa Monica.

-Wall StreetJournal
  'God Lives in Hollywood', editorial on California's voter registration lists,12 Jul.

   The Bishop gave vent to a long-drawn sigh. 'Did it ever occur to you to wonder why God created women?' he asked.'It's the one thing that tempts me at times to doubt His infinite goodness and wisdom.'

-Wall, Mervyn
  The Unfortunate Fursey.

Ja"   leider desn mac nicht ges|"n, Das guot und wertlich e"  re Und gotes hulde me"  re Zesamene in ein herze komen. It is sadly impossible For wealth and a good name, along with God's favour, to be united in one heart.

-Walther Von derVogelweide
c.1195  'Ich sass u"   f eime steine', l.16^19.

But God, who is ableto prevail, wrestled with him, as the Angel did with Jacob, and marked him; marked him for his own.

-Walton, Izaak
  Of Donne. Life ofJohn Donne.

An excellent angler, and now with God. 888

-Walton, Izaak
  Of Sir George Hastings,The Compleat Angler, pt.1, ch.4.

The time is now near at hand which must probably determine whether Americans are to be freemen or slaves† The fate of unborn millions will now depend, under God, on the courage and conduct of this army.Our cruel and unrelenting enemy leaves us only the choice of brave resistance or abject submission.We have, therefore, to resolve to conquer or die.

-Washington, BookerTaliaferro
  General orders, 2 Jul. Quoted inJ C Fitzpatrick (ed) Writings of GeorgeWashington (1932), vol.5.

   Our God, our help in ages past Our hope for years to come, Our shelter from the stormy blast And our eternal home.

-Watts, Isaac
  ThePsalms of David Imitated, Psalm 90 (in1738 JohnWesley substituted'O God' for 'Our God').

Woman to man Is either a God or a wolfe.

-Webster,John
  TheWhite Devil, act 4, sc.2.

The beauty of the world is almost the only way by which we can allow God to penetrate us†the beauty of the world isthe commonest, easiest and most natural way of approach.

-Weil, Simone
Attente de Dieu (translated asWaiting for God,1951).

One might lay down as a postulate: All conceptions of God whichare incompatible with themovement of pure charity are false.

-Weil, Simone
Letter to a Priest (translated byA F Wills, published1954).

   In this House, which is termed a place of free speech, there is nothing so necessary for the preservation of the Prince and State as free speech; and without it, it is a scorn and a mockery to call it a Parliament House, for in truth it is none but a very school of flatteryand dissimulation, and so fit a place to serve the devil and his angels in, and not to glorify God and benefit the Commonwealth.

-Wentworth, Peter
  House of Commons, 8 Feb.

Hark! how all the welkin rings, Glory to the King of kings. Peace on earth and mercy mild, God and sinners reconciled.

-Wesley, Charles
  'Hymn for Christmas'. In Hymns and Sacred Poems.The first two lines were changed to'Hark! the herald-angels sing/ Glory to the new born king' inWhitfield's Hymns for Social Worship (1753).

Thou hidden love of God, whose height, Whose depth unfathomed no man knows, I see from far thy beauteous light, Only I sigh for thy repose.

-Wesley,John
  A Collection of Psalms and Hymns,'Divine Love'.

I have none of the infirmities of old age, and have lost several I had in my youth. The grand cause is, the good pleasure of God, who does whatever pleases him. The chief means are:1. My constantly rising at four, for about fifty years. 2. My generally preaching at five in the morning; one of the most healthy exercises in the world. 3. My never travelling less, by sea or land, than four thousand five hundred miles in a year.

-Wesley,John
  Journal entry, 28 Jun.