Robert Browning - God Quotes

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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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Fool! All that is, at all,
Lasts ever, past recall;
Earth changes, but thy soul and God stand sure:
What entered into thee,
That was, is, and shall be:
Time's wheel runs back or stops: Potter and clay endure.

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And then how I shall lie through centuries,
And hear the blessed mutter of the mass,
And see God made and eaten all day long,
And feel the steady candle flame, and taste Good strong thick stupefying incense smoke!

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

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

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

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