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Encyclopedia of Religious Quotations
Frank S Mead, editor
12,000 quotations from all faiths and all times

1 "God acts the part of a Geometrician….His government of the world is no less exact than His creation of it." John Norris, 'Practical Discourses'

2 "You must recognize as brothers and sisters all who live; and free to will, free to act, free to enjoy, you shall know the worth of existence." Richard Wagner, 'The Creative Force'

3 "As a countenance is made beautiful by the soul's shining through it, so the world is beautiful by the shining through it of God." Johann Georg Jacobi

4 "The great soul of this world is just." Thomas Carlyle, letter to Thomas Erskine

5 "Laws of Nature are God's thoughts thinking themselves out in the orbits and the tides." Charles Henry Parkhurst, 'Sermons: Pattern in Mount'

6 "The study of Nature is intercourse with the Highest Mind." Jean Louis Agassiz, 'Agassiz at Penikese'

7 "Always and in everything let there be reverence." Confucius, 'The Book of Rites', I

8 "Trusting in Him who can go with me and remain with you, and be everywhere for good, let us confidently hope that all will yet be well." Abraham Lincoln

9 "In God's will is our peace." Anonymous

10 "Love is God's essence." Richard Garnett, 'De Flagello Myrteo', IV

11 "God is the perfect poet, Who in his person acts his own creations." Robert Browning, 'Paracelsus'

12 "Not all the subtilties of metaphysics can make me doubt for a moment of the immortality of the soul, and of a beneficent providence. I feel it." Jean Jacques Rousseau

13 "Prayer is the recovery of the soul's breathing." Gerald Heard, 'The Christian Century'

14 "Every man's life is a plan of God." Horace Bushnell

15 "Of a truth we are mystically united; a mysterious bond of brotherhood makes all one." Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881)

16 "History is the revelation of providence." Lajos Kossuth

17 "The heavens above, and the procession of the seasons as they month by month walk among the stars, are various manifestations of God." Henry Ward Beecher

18 "Nature is the living, visible garment of God." Johann Wolfgang vonGoethe

19 "Nature is too thin a screen; the glory of the omnipresent God bursts through everything." Ralph Waldo Emerson

20 "Man is a soul formed by divine ideas, and bodying forth their image. His mind is the unit and measure of things visible and invisible." Amos Bronson Alcott, 'Tablets, II'

21 "God hides nothing. His very work from the beginning is revelation – a casting aside of veil after veil, a showing unto men of truth after truth." George Macdonald

22 "The universe is a thought of God." Johann C. F. vonSchiller, 'Essays: Aesthetical and Philosophical', Letter IV

23 "He who knows God is truly moral." Friedrich vonSchelling

24 "I sought my soul – but my soul I could not see; I sought my God – but my God eluded me; I sought my brother – and found all three." Anonymous

25 The One remains, the many change and pass." Percy Bysshe Shelley, 'Adonais'

This body of quotes compiled by JoAnn Kite