Carl Linnaeus - God Quotes

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Great is our God, and great is His power, and his strength is immeasurable

Carl Linnaeus

The observer of nature see, with admiration, that "the whole world is full of the glory of God."

Carl Linnaeus

The Earth's Creation is the glory of God, as seen from the works of Nature by Man alone.

Carl Linnaeus

Theologically, man is to be understood as the final purpose of the creation; placed on the globe as the masterpiece of the works of Omnipotence, contemplating the world by virtue of sapient reason, forming conclusions by means of his senses, it is in His works that man recognizes the almighty Creator, the all-knowing, immeasurable and eternal God, learning to live morally under His rule, convinced of the complete justice of His Nemesis.

Carl Linnaeus

From my youth you have taught me, O God, and now I would like to proclaim Your Wonders

Carl Linnaeus

Everything persecutes him; all things go against the guilty. No calamity by itself. Everything went badly with me, when I harboured revenge, but [I] changed, and left everything in God's hands: since then all happily.

Carl Linnaeus

I saw the infinite, all-knowing and all-powerful God from behind as he went away, and I grew dizzy. I followed his footsteps over nature's fields and saw everywhere an eternal wisdom and power, an inscrutable perfection.

Carl Linnaeus