328 Metaphors for god

God, was her happiness at the mercy of an accident?

God is a good and just being, and he trusts him accordingly; and that very discovery of the goodness, not the sternness of God, is the bitterest pang, the deepest shame to David's spirit.

God is the one ideal, the Church the one shelter from the misery and meanness of life.

In the world, each thing has things greater and smaller by its side, but God is the absolutely greatest and smallest; in accordance with the principle of the coincidentia oppositorum, the absolute maximum and the absolute minimum coincide.

Observation and experience are his reason's labours, and patience with conscience are the lines of his love's measure; contemplation and meditation are his spirit's exercise, and God and His Word are the joy of his soul.

"God is the mighty, the wise!

"Devotion is the sole resource of coquettes: when they are become old, God becomes the last resource of all women who know not aught else to do.

They are the publication of natural religion,that God is a rewarder of virtuous actions, and punishes wicked deeds.

Hence, as Mr. Keary observes, "The gods of the early world are the rock and the mountain, the tree, the river, the sea;" and Mr. Fergusson is of opinion that tree-worship, in association with serpent-worship, must be reckoned as the primitive faith of mankind.

"God has been wondrous kind to me," she said, "but there is a cure for all sorrow, dear friend, in his love.

Siva, for his part, was God the final dissolver or destroyer, the source of reproductive energy and the inspirer of asceticism.

"They do not understand what they say; what is Nature but God? call him what thou wilt, Nature, Jupiter, he hath as many names as offices: it comes all to one pass, God is the fountain of all, the first Giver and Preserver, from whom all things depend," a quo, et per quem omnia, Nam quocunque vides Deus est, quocunque moveris, "God is all in all, God is everywhere, in every place."

But poets and papists may go together for fabulous tales; let them free their own credits: howsoever they feign of their Nemesis, and of their saints, or by the devil's means may be deluded; we find it true, that ultor a tergo Deus, [1110]"He is God the avenger," as David styles him; and that it is our crying sins that pull this and many other maladies on our own heads.

He had to go back and he would go back alive and well; for God was a gentleman, whatever else

And if God is your court, why did you have no better aid to-night.

At the beginning of the first development God is will without object, eternal quietude and rest, unqualified groundlessness without determinate volition.

It seemed to me, for the first time in all my life, that God is a real Presence and an actual Help.

Nay, then, God be our speed.

"My God!" was the simultaneous exclamation of all.

Rude gods in brass or gold enchant an untaught devotee Fair marble shapes, rich paintings old, are Art's idolatry; But nought e'er charmed a human breast like this small tremulous flower, Minute and delicate work divine of world-creative power!

And that, my God, were all unworthy thee.

[-40-] "For if some god had actually become our sponsor that, even if we should fail to do this, no one would plot against us and we should forever enjoy in safety all that we have won, it would still be disgraceful to say that we ought to keep quiet; yet those who are willing to do nothing that is requisite would have some show of excuse.

Thus far God, who is one in three, is only understanding or wisdom, wherein the images of all the possible are contained; to the intuition of self must be added divisibility; it is only through the antithesis of the revealed God and the unrevealed groundless that the former becomes an actual trinity (in which the persons stand related as essence, power, and activity), and the latter becomes desire or nature in God.

The cause of this spiritual combat was as follows: there were some satans in hell who expressed a wish to be allowed to converse with the angels of heaven; "for," said they, "we will clearly and fully demonstrate, that what they call God, the Creator of all things, is nothing but nature; and thus that God is a mere unmeaning expression, unless nature be meant by it."

" Heabani pondering, thus explained the dream: "My friend, the god was Samas, who doth gleam With his bright glory, power, our God and Lord, Our great Creator King, whose thunders roared By thee, as through yon sky he takes his way; For his great favor we should ever pray.

328 Metaphors for  god