Philip James Bailey - God Quotes

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We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not breaths;
In feelings, not in figures on a dial.
We should count time by heart-throbs. He most lives
Who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best.
Life's but a means unto an end; that end
Beginning, mean, and end to all things, — God.
The dead have all the glory of the world.

Philip James Bailey
Not a single path
Of thought I tread, but that it leads to God.

Philip James Bailey
God puts his finger in the other scale, And up we bounce, a bubble. Nought is great Nor small, with God; for none but he can make The atom imperceptible, and none But he can make a world; he counts the orbs, He counts the atoms of the universe, And makes both equal; both are infinite.

Philip James Bailey
The death-change comes. Death is another life. We bow our heads At going out, we think, and enter straight Another golden chamber of the king's Larger than this we leave, and lovelier. And then in shadowy glimpses, disconnect, The story, flower-like, closes thus its leaves. The will of God is all in all. He makes, Destroys, remakes, for His own pleasure, all.

Philip James Bailey
The beautiful are never desolate; But some one alway loves them--God or man. If man abandons, God himself takes them.

Philip James Bailey
Thy great name
In all its awful brevity, hath nought
Unholy breeding it, but doth bless
Rather the tongue that uses it; for me,
I ask no higher office than to fling
My spirit at Thy feet, and cry Thy name,
God! through eternity.

Philip James Bailey
Thou wind?
Which art the unseen similitude of God
The Spirit, His most meet and mightiest sign.

Philip James Bailey
All are of the race of God, and have in themselves good.

Philip James Bailey
Dear Lord, our God and Saviour! for Thy gifts
The world were poor in thanks, though every soul
Were to do nought but breathe them, every blade
Of grass, and every atomie of earth
To utter it like dew.

Philip James Bailey
O, there is naught on earth worth being known but God and our own souls!

Philip James Bailey
Ask not of me, love, what is love?
Ask what is good of God above;
Ask of the great sun what is light;
Ask what is darkness of the night;
Ask sin of what may be forgiven;
Ask what is happiness of heaven;
Ask what is folly of the crowd;
Ask what is fashion of the shroud;
Ask what is sweetness of thy kiss;
Ask of thyself what beauty is.

Philip James Bailey
Thou wilt not chronicle our sand-like sins;
For sin is small, and mean, and barren. Good
Only is great, and generous, and fruitful.
Number the mountains, not the sands, O God!

Philip James Bailey
What are ye orbs?
The words of God? the Scriptures of the skies?

Philip James Bailey
Let each man think himself an act of God,
His mind a thought, his life a breath of God;
And let each try, by great thoughts and good deeds,
To show the most of Heaven he hath in him.

Philip James Bailey
Star unto star speaks light, and world to world
Repeats the passage of the universe
To God; the name of Christ — the one great word
Well worth all languages in earth or heaven.

Philip James Bailey
True faith nor biddeth nor abideth form,
The bended knee, the eye uplift, is all
Which men need render; all which God can bear.
What to the faith are forms? A passing speck,
A crow upon the sky.

Philip James Bailey
The sun, God's crest upon His azure shield, the heavens.

Philip James Bailey
Poetry is itself a thing of God;
He made his prophets poets; and the more
We feel of poesie do we become
Like God in love and power, — undermakers.

Philip James Bailey
Soul of the world, divine Necessity,
Servant of God, and master of all things.

Philip James Bailey
Why Mammon sits before a million hearths
Where God is bolted out from every house.

Philip James Bailey