George Herbert - God Quotes

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Love is that liquor sweet and most divine,
Which my God feels as blood; but I, as wine.

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When God is made the master of a family, he disorders the disorderly.

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God strikes not with both hands, for to the sea he made heavens, and to rivers foords.

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No sooner is a Temple built to God but the Devill builds a Chappell hard by.

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The Divell never assailes a man, except he find him either void of knowledge, or of the fear of God.

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I envy no man's nightingale or spring;
Nor let them punish me with loss of rhyme,
Who plainly say, My God, My King.

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He that will not have peace, God gives him warre.
[He that will not have peace, God gives him war.]

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Though God take the sunne out of the Heaven, yet we must have patience.

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God keepe me from foure houses, an Vsurers, a Taverne, a Spittle, and a Prison.

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When once thy foot enters the church, be bare. God is more there than thou: for thou art there Only by his permission. Then beware, That leads from earth to heaven.

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God's breath in man returning to his birth, The soul in paraphrase, heart in pilgrimage,

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When God will punish, hee will first take away the understanding.

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Who is the honest man?
He that doth still and strongly good pursue
To God, his neighbor, and himself most true:
Whom neither force nor fawning can
Unpin, or wrench from giving all their due.

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God's works are wide, and let in future times; His ancient justice overflows our crimes.

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They that hold the greatest farmes, pay the least rent (applyed to rich men that are unthankful to God).

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The God of love my Shepherd is,
And He that doth me feed:
While He is mine, and I am His,
What can I want or need?

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Man is God's image; but a poor man is
Christ's stamp to boot: both images regard.

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It (my book) is a picture of the many spiritual conflicts that have passed between God and my soul, before I could subject mine to the will of Jesus, my Master, in whose service I have now found perfect freedom.

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Teach me, my God and King,
In all things thee to see
And what I do in any thing,
To do it as for thee..

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He would adore my gifts instead of Me,
And rest in Nature, not the God of Nature:
So both should losers be.

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My meaning (dear Mother) is in these sonnets, to declare my resolution to be, that my poor abilities in poetry, shall be all and ever consecrated to God's glory.

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When God at first made man,
Having a glass of blessings standing by;
Let us (said he) pour on him all we can:
Let the world's riches, which dispersed lie,
Contract into a span.

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The worst speak something good; if all want sense,
God takes a text, and preacheth Pa-ti-ence.

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Judge not the preacher, for he is thy Judge:
If thou mislike him, thou conceiv'st him not.
God calleth preaching folly. Do not grudge
To pick out treasures from an earthen pot.
The worst speaks something good: if all want sense,
God takes a text, and preacheth patience.

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Let all the world in ev'ry corner sing
My God and King.

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