Do Unto Others Project-Church of the Science of God

Quotations, Quotations, Quotations

Edited by: LEWIS C. HENRY

FIVE THOUSAND QUOTATIONS Copyright, 1945, Garden City Books

by: DOUBLEDAY & Co.

5 thousand quotations GOD helps those who help themselves. Anonymous

Man proposes, and God disposes. Ariosto--Orlando Fnrioso

They that deny a God, destroy man’s nobility; for certainly man is of kin to the beasts by his body; and, if he be not of kin to God by his spirit, he is a base and ignoble creature. Bacon--Essays

Gods in His Heaven—

All’s right with the world!

Browning– Pippa Passes

I took a day to search For Cod,

And found Him not. But as I trod

By rocky ledge, through woods untamed,

Just where one scarlet lily flamed,

I saw His foot print in the sod.

BLISS CARMAN— Vestigia

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, bard pathway trod—

Some call it Consecration,

And others call it God.

W. H. Carruth---Evolution

God bath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise;

and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things that are mighty.

I Corinthians, I. 27

If there were no God, it would be necessary to invent Him. VOLTAIRE

By night an atheist half believes in a God. YOUNG —Night Thoughts

The Ethiop gods have Ethiop lips, Bronze cheeks, and woolly hair;

The Grecian gods arc like the Greeks, As keen-eyed, cold and fair.

WALTER BAGEUOT— Ignorance of Man

Ye immortal gods! where in the world are we? Cicero

There’s a one-eyed yellow idol to the north of Khatmandu,

There’s a little marble cross below the town,

There’s a broken-hearted woman tends the grave of Nlacl Carcw,

And the yellow god forever gazes down.

J. MILTON HAYES— The Green Eye of the Yellow God

Yet verily these issues lie on the lap of the gods. Homer– Iliad

The trident of Neptune is the scepter of the world. Lemierre

God moves in a mysterious way His wonders to perform;

He. plants his footsteps in the sea..And rides upon the storm.

Cowper--Hymn

God is incorporeal, divine, supreme, infinite Mind, Spirit, Soul, Principle,

Life, Truth, Love. Mary, Baker Eddy– –Science and Health

An honest God is the noblest work of man. INGERSOLL— The Gods

“We trust, Sir, that God is on our side.” “It is more important to know that we are on God’s side.” Lincoln--Reply to deputation during Civil War

A mighty fortress is our God,

A bulwark never failing,

Our helper he amid the flood

Of mortal ills prevailing.

LUTHER

Everyone is in a small way the image of God. Manilius

What is it: is man only a blunder of God, or God only a blunder of man?

Nietzsche— The Twilight of the Idols

A God-intoxicated man. Novalis (of Spinoza)

There is a God within us, and we glow when he Stirs us. Ovid

Fear God. Honour the King.

I PETER. II. I 7

God is truth and light his shadow.

PLATO

He mounts the storm, and walks upon the wind. Pope---Essay on Man

The heavens declare the glory of God;

and the firmament showeth his handiwork.

PSALMS. XIX. 1

He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the

still waters.

PSALMS. XXIII. 2

God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.

PSALMS. XLVI. 1

There is no respect of persons with God. ROMANS. II. 11

If God be for us, who can be against us? ROMANS. VIII. 31

For the greater glory of God.

Motto of the Society of Jesus

God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb. Laurence Sterne

The divine essence itself is love and wisdom. Swedenborg

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

Rock of Ages, cleft for me, Let me hide myself in thee.

Augustus Toplady— Living and Dying Prayer

Fear that man who fears not God. Abd-el-Kader

Ncarer, my God, to Thee—

Nearer to Thee—

E’cn though it be a cross

That raiseth me;

Still all my song shall be

Nearer, my God, to Thee,

Nearer to Thee!

Sarah Flower Adams

GOLDEN RULE

My duty towards my neighbor is to love him as myself, and to do to all men as I would they should do unto me. Book of Common Prayer - - 1662

What you do not want others to do to you, do not do to others.

Confucius, c. 500 B.C.

Whatsoever thou wouldest that men should not do to thee,

do not do that to them. Hillel; Ha-Babli, c. 30 B.C.

God is truth and light his shadow. PLATO

He mounts the storm, and walks upon the wind. Proverb---Essay on Man

The heavens declare the glory of God;

and the firmament showest his handiwork.

PSALMS. XIX. 1

God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.

PSALMS. XLVI. 1

There is no respect of persons with God. ROMANS. II. 11

If God he for us, who can be against us? ROMANS. VIII. 35

God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb.

LAURENCE STERN

The divine essence itself is love and wisdom. SWEDENBORG

God, the Great Giver, can open the whole universe to

our gaze in the narrow space of a single lane. TAG ORE

Rock of Ages, cleft for me, Let me hide myself in thee.

AUGUSTUS TOPLADY— Living and Dying Prayer

As 17^th Century wit La Roche -foucauld expressed it:

“The violence we do to ourselves in order to remain

faithful to the one we love is hardly better than an

act of infidelity.”

A lucky man is rarer than a white crow. - - -Juvenal

Rock-a-bye bal)y, on the tree top,

When the wind blows the cradle will rock;

When the bough breaks the cradle will fall,

Down will come baby, cradle and all.

ENGLISH – Nursery Rhyme

Sweet and low, sweet and low,

Wind of the western sea,

Low, low, breathe and blow,

Wind of the western sea!

Over the rolling waters go,

Come from the dying moon, and blow,

Blow him again to me;

While my little one, while my pretty one sleeps.

TENNYSON— The Princess

Hush, my dear, lie still and slumber,

Holy angels guard thy bed!

Heavenly blessings without number

Gently falling on thy head.

ISAAC WATTS

Peter said, Ananias, why hath Satan filled thine heart to lie to the Holy Ghost?...... . And Ananias hearing these words fell down, and gave up the ghost.

ACTS. III. 3-5.

Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense

to know how to lie well. SAMUEL BUTLER—Note-Books

And, after all, what is a lie? ‘ Tis but The truth in masquerade.

BYRON— Don Juan

A liar is not believed even though he tell the truth. CICERO

Terminological inexactitude. WINST0N Churchill - Speech - 1906

1906

An experienced, industrious, ambitious, and often quite picturesque liar.

S.L. CLEMENS (MARK TWAIN) —My Military Campaign

A good memory is needed once we have lied. CORNEILLE

Show me a liar, and I will show thee a thief. HERBERT

Who dares think one thing, and another tell,

Mv heart detests him as the gates of hell. HOMER - -Iliad

The liar’s punishment is not in the least that he is not believed,

but that he cannot believe anyone else. GEORGE BERNARD SHAW

That a lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies;

That a lie which is a1l a lie may be met and fought with outright—

But a lie which is part a truth is a harder matter to light.

TENNYSON— The Grandmother

A tool is but the extension of a man’s hand, and a machine is but a complex tool. He that invents a machine augments the power of a man and the well-being of all mankind. ----- HENRY WARD BEECHER

Man is a tool-using animal. CARLYLE— Sartar Resartus

One machine can do the work 0f fifty ordinary men.

No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.

ELBERT HUBBARD

Men have become the tools of their tools. THOREAU— Walden

One with The law is a majority. CALVIN COOLIDGE - - Speech , 1920

A minority may be right; a majority is always wrong.

IBSEN— An Enemy of the People

It is my principle that the will of the majority should always prevail.

JEFFERS0N—Lctter, 1787

One, on God’s side, is a majority. WENDELL PHILLIPS

Cursed Mammon be, when he with treasures