#god

God be thanked for books; they are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages. ↗

— William Ellery Channing

#books #dead #distant #god #heirs

And upon this act, sincerely believed to be an act of justice, warranted by the Constitution, upon military necessity, I invoke the considerate judgment of all mankind, and the gracious favor of Almighty God. ↗

— Salmon P. Chase

#almighty #almighty god #believed #considerate #constitution

He greatly valued his possessions, chiefly because they were his, and derived genuine pleasure from contemplating a painting, a statuette, a rare lace curtain - no matter what - after he had bought it and placed it among his household gods. ↗

— Kate Chopin

#among #because #bought #chiefly #contemplating

We never waste space saying, "On the one hand." We just state an opinion in a Godlike voice. ↗

— Arthur Christiansen

#hand #just #never #opinion #saying

A comprehended god is no god. ↗

— John Chrysostom

#god

If we do not need to worship God six days in the week why do we need to worship him on the seventh? ↗

— Lemuel K. Washburn

#god #him #need #seventh #six

I was just going at this career - boom, boom, boom! Then all of a sudden, at 38, Oh, my God - I forgot to get married! ↗

— Connie Chung

#career #forgot #get #get married #god

Our fates are in the hands of An Almighty God, to whom I can with pleasure confide my own; he can save us, or destroy us; his Councils are fixed and cannot be disappointed, and all his designs will be Accomplished. ↗

— Abraham Clark

#almighty #almighty god #cannot #confide #councils

As scientific truths put us in an intelligent relaton with the cosmos, as historic truth puts us in temporal relation with the rise and fall of civilization, so does Christ put us in intelligent relation with God the Father; for He is the only possible Word by which God can address Himself to a world of sinners. ↗

— Fulton J. Sheen

#history #jesus #science #intelligence

We cannot suppose therefore that God has made an order of beings, with such mental qualities and powers, for the sole purpose of being used as beasts, or instruments of labour. ↗

— Thomas Clarkson

#being #being used #beings #cannot #god