Robert Browning - God Quotes

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Grow old along with me!
The best is yet to be,
The last of life, for which the first was made:
Our times are in his hand
Who saith, "A whole I planned,
Youth shows but half; trust God: see all, nor be afraid!"

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God made all the creatures, and gave them our love and our fear,
To give sign we and they are his children, one family here.

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God be thanked, the meanest of his creatures
Boasts two soul-sides,—one to face the world with,
One to show a woman when he loves her!

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I do what many dream of, all their lives,
— Dream? strive to do, and agonize to do,
And fail in doing. I could count twenty such
On twice your fingers, and not leave this town,
Who strive — you don't know how the others strive
To paint a little thing like that you smeared
Carelessly passing with your robes afloat —
Yet do much less, so much less, Someone says,
(I know his name, no matter) — so much less!
Well, less is more, Lucrezia: I am judged.
There burns a truer light of God in them,
In their vexed beating stuffed and stopped-up brain,
Heart, or whate'er else, than goes on to prompt
This low-pulsed forthright craftsman's hand of mine.

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Thou at first prompting of what I call God,
And fools call Nature, didst hear, comprehend,
Accept the obligation laid on thee.

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All instincts immature,
All purposes unsure,
That weighed not as his work, yet swelled the man's amount:
Thoughts hardly to be packed
Into a narrow act,
Fancies that broke through language and escaped;
All I could never be,
All, men ignored in me,
This, I was worth to God, whose wheel the pitcher shaped.

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Just my vengeance complete,
The man sprang to his feet,
Stood erect, caught at God's skirts, and prayed!
So, I was afraid!

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God is the perfect poet,
Who in his person acts his own creations.

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I give the fight up: let there be an end,
A privacy, an obscure nook for me.
I want to be forgotten even by God.

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Each a God's germ, but doomed remain a germ
In unexpanded infancy

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God for King Charles! Pym and such carles
To the Devil that prompts 'em their treasonous parles!

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When it was written, God and Robert Browning knew what it meant; now only God knows.
On Sordello

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We find great things are made of little things, And little things go lessening till at last Comes God behind them.

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All service ranks the same with God,—
With God, whose puppets, best and worst,
Are we: there is no last nor first.

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That we devote ourselves to God, is seen
In living just as though no God there were.

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Karshish, the picker-up of learning's crumbs,
The not-incurious in God's handiwork.

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God smiles as He has always smiled;
Ere suns and moons could wax and wane,
Ere stars were thundergirt, or piled
The Heavens, God thought on me His child;
Ordained a life for me, arrayed
Its circumstances, every one
To the minutest; ay, God said
This head this hand should rest upon
Thus, ere He fashioned star or sun.

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If you get simple beauty and naught else,
You get about the best thing God invents.

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God is seen God
In the star, in the stone, in the flesh, in the soul
and the clod.

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Through such souls alone God stooping shows sufficient of His light For us i' the dark to rise by. And I rise.

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I see my way as birds their trackless way.
I shall arrive,—what time, what circuit first,
I ask not; but unless God send his hail
Or blinding fire-balls, sleet or stifling snow,
In some time, his good time, I shall arrive:
He guides me and the bird. In his good time.

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For sudden the worst turns the best to the brave, The black minute's at end, And the elements' rage, the fiend voices that rave, Shall dwindle, shall blend, Shall change, shall become first a peace out of pain, Then a light, then thy breast, O thou soul of my soul! I shall clasp thee again, And with God be the rest!

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Thou, heaven's consummate cup, what needst thou with earth's wheel?
But I need, now as then,
Thee, God, who mouldest men.

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Progress, man's distinctive mark alone,
Not God's, and not the beasts': God is, they are;
Man partly is, and wholly hopes to be.

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Gr-r-r—there go, my heart's abhorrence!
Water your damned flowerpots, do!
If hate killed men, Brother Lawrence,
God's blood, would not mine kill you!

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The high that proved too high, the heroic for earth too hard, The passion that left the ground to lose itself in the sky, Are music sent up to God by the lover and the bard.

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Thou art my single day, God lends to leaven What were all earth else, with a feel of heaven.

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The great beacon light God sets in all, the conscience of each bosom.

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It's wiser being good than bad;
It's safer being meek than fierce;
It's fitter being sane than mad.
My own hope is, a sun will pierce
The thickest cloud earth ever stretched;
That after Last returns the First,
Though a wide compass round be fetched;
That what began best can't end worst,
Nor what God blessed once prove accurst.

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Be sure that God
Ne'er dooms to waste the strength he deigns impart.

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