"God seeth different abilities and frailties of men, which may move His goodness to be merciful to their different improvements in virtue."

God, Men, Virtue, Goodness

31

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

"God seeth different abilities and frailties of men, which may move His goodness to be merciful to their different improvements in virtue."

Exlpore more God quotes

"A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, 'darkness' on the walls of his cell."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

God, Glory, Man, Sun

"When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers."

Oscar Wilde, Irish Dramatist

God, Gods

"Exceeds man's might: that dwells with the gods above."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

God, Gods, Man

"God and other artists are always a little obscure....."

Oscar Wilde, Irish Dramatist

God, Obscurity, Mystery, Creativity

"If God wants us to do a thing, he should make his wishes sufficiently clear. Sensible people will wait till he has done this before paying much attention to him."

Samuel Butler, British Poet

God, People, Attention, Will

"If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him."

Voltaire, French Writer

God,

"I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: "O Lord make my enemies ridiculous." And God granted it."

Voltaire, French Writer

God, Enemies, Prayer

"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

"Man goes far away or near but God never goes far-off; he is always standing close at hand, and even if he cannot stay within he goes no further than the door."

Meister Eckhart, German Philosopher

God, Man

"You may call God love, you may call God goodness. But the best name for God is compassion."

Meister Eckhart, German Philosopher

God, Love, Compassion, Goodness

Explore more quotes by William Law

"We must alter our lives in order to alter our hearts, for it is impossible to live one way and pray another."

Order,

"Love and pity and wish well to every soul in the world; dwell in love, and then you dwell in God."

Love, God, Soul, Pity

"Perfection does not consist in any singular state or condition of life, or in any particular set of duties, but in holy and religious conduct of ourselves in every state of Life."

Life, Perfection, Religious, State

"No education can be of true advantage to young women but that which trains them up in humble industry, in great plainness of living, in exact modesty of dress."

Education, Women, Dress, Living

"Be intent on the perfection of the present day."

Day, Perfection, Present

"Love has no errors, for all errors are the want for love."

Love, Errors, Want

"This, and this alone, is Christianity, a universal holiness in every part of life, a heavenly wisdom in all our actions, not conforming to the spirit and temper of the world but turning all worldly enjoyments into means of piety and devotion to God."

Wisdom, Life, God, Christianity

"Self is the root, the tree, and the branches of all the evils of our fallen state."

Self, State

"Humility is nothing else but a right judgment of ourselves."

Humility, Judgment, Nothing, Right

"What could begin to deny self, if there were not something in man different from self?"

Man, Self