Quotes · Skopia

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Topic·God and man✕clear

Play · Tragedy (play)

As flies to wanton boys are we to th’ gods; They kill us for their sport.

William Shakespeare

King Lear · 1606

★ 1.1

Scripture · Religious literature

Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men; and the weakness of God is stronger than men.

1st Corinthians 1:25 · 55

★ 1.3

Presocratic fragment · Fragment · Philosophical literature

Unlike divine nature, human nature lacks sound judgments.

★ 1.3

Cure yourself of the condition of bothering about how you look to other people. Concern yourself only with how you appear to God, with the idea that God has of you.

Miguel de Unamuno

1905

★ 1.7

Two and two only supreme and luminously self-evident beings, myself and my Creator.

John Henry Newman

1864

★ 1.9

We blossom and flourish as leaves on the tree, To wither and perish- but nought changeth Thee.

Walter Chalmers Smith

God, All in All · 1867

★ 1.9

Poems are made by fools like me, But only God can make a tree.

1913

★ 1.9

Novel · Satire

The Maker of a universe with stars a hundred thousand light-years apart was interested, furious, and very personal about it if a small boy played baseball on Sunday afternoon.

Elmer Gantry · 1927

★ 1.9

I find that all my thoughts circle around God like the planets around the sun, and are as irresistibly attracted by Him.

1952

★ 1.9

Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee And I'll forgive Thy great big one on me.

1962

★ 1.9

Historical literature

All our power lies in both mind and body; we employ the mind to rule, the body rather to serve; the one we have in common with the Gods, the other with the brutes.

The War of Catiline · 42 BC

★ 1.9

Play · Tragedy (play)

Do your duty, and leave the outcome to the Gods.

Pierre Corneille

1640

★ 1.9

Scripture · Religious literature

Man does not live on bread alone but on every word that comes from the mouth of the Lord.

Deuteronomy 8:3

1405 BC

★ 2.0

Scripture · Religious literature

“For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways,” declares the Lord. “As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts."

Isaiah 55:8-9 · 681 BC

★ 2.0

Scripture · Religious literature

We are the children of God.

Romans 8:16 · 56

★ 2.0

Scripture · Religious literature

The God who made the world and everything in it, being Lord of heaven and earth, does not live in temples made by man, nor is he served by human hands, as though he needed anything, since he himself gives to all mankind life and breath and everything.

Acts 17:24-26 · 62

★ 2.0

Scripture · Religious literature

Thee only we serve; to Thee alone we pray for succor. Guide us in the straight path, the path of those whom Thou hast blessed, not of those against whom Thou art wrathful, nor of those who are astray.

The Quran, The Koran, 1:5-7 · 632

★ 2.0

Sermon · Religious literature

The heart is like a viper, hissing, and spitting poison at God.

Jonathan Edwards

Men Naturally God's Enemies · 1736

★ 2.0

Amazing love! How can it be That Thou, my God, shouldst die for me?

1738

★ 2.0

The Godhead is broken like bread. We are the pieces.

Herman Melville · 1939

★ 2.0

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