top of page
Quote_1.png
John Donne

"God employs several translators; some pieces are translated by age, some by sickness, some by war, some by justice."

John Donne, British Poet
God, Age, War, Justice
Standard 
 Customized
"God employs several translators; some pieces are translated by age, some by sickness, some by war, some by justice."

Exlpore more God quotes

Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"I have only ever made one prayer to God, a very short one: O Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it."

Voltaire, French Writer
God, Enemies, Prayer
Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

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

Seneca, Roman Philosopher
God, Nature, Fate, Fortune
Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"God is a metaphor for that which trancends all levels of intellectual thought. It's as simple as that."

Joseph Campbell, American Author
God, Thought, Metaphor
Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"Sometimes I wonder why God ever trusts talent in the hands of women, they usually make such an infernal mess of it. I think He must do it as a sort of ghastly joke."

Willa Cather, American Author
God, Women, Talent, Wonder
Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best."

Walt Whitman, American Poet
God,
Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"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."

Seneca, Roman Philosopher
God, Being, Statesman
Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"When belief in a god dies, the god dies."

Harlan Ellison, American Writer
God, Belief
Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"God always strives together with those who strive."

Aeschylus, Greek Poet
God,
Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"A god implants in mortal guilt whenever he wants utterly to confound a house."

Aeschylus, Greek Poet
God, Guilt
Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist
God, Knowledge, Heaven, Ignorance

Explore more quotes by John Donne

Quote_1.png
John Donne
"And new Philosophy calls all in doubt, the element of fire is quite put out; the Sun is lost, and the earth, and no mans wit can well direct him where to look for it."
Doubt
Quote_1.png
John Donne
"Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies."
Love
Quote_1.png
John Donne
"Pleasure is none, if not diversified."
Pleasure
Quote_1.png
John Donne
"More than kisses, letters mingle souls."
Communication
Quote_1.png
John Donne
"When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language."
Language
Quote_1.png
John Donne
"No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent."
Man
Quote_1.png
John Donne
"The day breaks not, it is my heart."
Heart
Quote_1.png
John Donne
"I am two fools, I know, for loving, and for saying so in whining poetry."
Poetry
Quote_1.png
John Donne
"Reason is our soul's left hand, faith her right."
Faith
Quote_1.png
John Donne
"No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face."
Beauty
bottom of page