#god

Outside the kingdom of the Lord there is no nation which is greater than any other. God and history will remember your judgment. ↗

— Haile Selassie

#god #greater #history #judgment #kingdom

Prayer should be short, without giving God Almighty reasons why he should grant this, or that; he knows best what is good for us. ↗

— John Selden

#best #giving #god #god almighty #good

Thank God for your mother. ↗

— David O. Selznick

#mother #thank #thank god #your

You know who my gods are, who I believe in fervently? Herman Melville, Emily Dickinson - she's probably the top - Mozart, Shakespeare, Keats. These are wonderful gods who have gotten me through the narrow straits of life. ↗

— Maurice Sendak

#emily #fervently #gods #gotten #herman

I will govern my life and thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one and read the other, for what does it signify to make anything a secret to my neighbor, when to God, who is the searcher of our hearts, all our privacies are open? ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#does #god #govern #hearts #i

Call it Nature, Fate, Fortune; all these are names of the one and selfsame God. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#fate #fortune #god #names #nature

We often want one thing and pray for another, not telling the truth even to the gods. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#even #gods #often #one thing #pray

God is the universal substance in existing things. He comprises all things. He is the fountain of all being. In Him exists everything that is. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#being #comprises #everything #existing #exists

It is true greatness to have in one the frailty of a man and the security of a god. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#god #greatness #man #security #true

Nothing is void of God, his work is everywhere his full of himself. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#full #god #himself #his #nothing