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Godly Quotes (page 205)

O brother, the gods were good to you. Sleep, and be glad while the worldendures. Be well content as the years wearthrough; Give thanks for life, and the loves andlures; Give thanks for life, O brother, anddeath, For the sweet last sound of her feet, herbreath, For gifts she gave you, gracious andfew, Tears and kisses, that lady of yours. Algernon Charles Swinburne
Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable. How many hours are in a mile? Is yellow square or round? Probably half the questions we ask - half our great theological and metaphysical problems - are like that. C. S. Lewis
How terrible to be forgotten by the god that made you, even if you're just a room. How could you love something that could do that anytime? Peter S. Beagle
Does God want goodness or the choice of goodness? Is a man who chooses to be bad perhaps in some way better than a man who has the good imposed upon him? Anthony Burgess
They took away what should have been my eyes (but I remembered Milton's Paradise). They took away what should have been my ears, (Beethoven came and wiped away my tears) They took away what should have been my tongue, (but I had talked with god when I was young) He would not let them take away my soul, possessing that I still possess the whole. Helen Keller
Elizabeth Barrett Browning quote: "No man can be called friendless who has God and the..."
No man can be called friendless who has God and the companionship of good books. Elizabeth Barrett Browning
But it was not only by this feeling, as Varvara thought, that he was guided. Mingling with his pride, with his need always to be first, was another motive, at which Varvara did not guess - a truly religious urge. His disillusionment in Mary (his betrothed), whom he had imagined such a saint, his feeling of outrage was so cruel that he sank into despair; and despair led him - whither? To God, to the faith of his childhood, which had never lost its hold upon him. Leo Tolstoy
Oh, for heaven's sake, Harper, I didn't just pee on the floor. My water broke.' 'What water?' He blinked, then went pale as a corpse. 'That water. Oh, God. Oh, Jesus. Oh, shit. Sit. Sit, or... I'll get-' An ambulance. The marines. 'My mother. Nora Roberts
Friedrich Nietzsche quote: "Thus do the gods justify the life of man: they themselves live..."
Thus do the gods justify the life of man: they themselves live it--the only satisfactory theodicy! Friedrich Nietzsche
I Nephi, being exeedingly young, nevertheless being large in stature, and also having great desires to know of the mysteries of God, wherefore, I did cry unto the Lord; and behold he did visit me, and did soften my heart that I did believe all the words which had been spoken by my father; wherefore, I did not rebel against him like unto my brothers. Joseph Smith, Jr.
Being sensible that I am unable to do any thing without God's help, I do humbly entreat Him, by His grace, to enable me to keep these Resolutions, so far as they are agreeable to His will, for Christ's sake. Jonathan Edwards
George MacDonald quote: "Thou art beautiful because God created thee, but thou art a..."
Thou art beautiful because God created thee, but thou art a slave to sin... wickedness has made you ugly. George MacDonald
Naguib Mahfouz quote: "You know what I'm afraid of? That God is sick of us."
You know what I'm afraid of? That God is sick of us. Naguib Mahfouz
Revelation need not all come at once. It may be incremental. 'Saith the Lord God: I will give unto the children of men line upon line, precept upon precept, here a little and there a little; and blessed are those who hearken unto my precepts, and lend an ear unto my counsel, for they shall learn wisdom; for unto him that receiveth I will give more' (2 Nephi 28:30). Patience and perseverance are part of our eternal progression. Russell M. Nelson
Colleen McCullough quote: "Truly God was good, to make man so blind."
Truly God was good, to make man so blind. Colleen McCullough

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