God

Works to read

• The Journey of the Mind into God by Bonaventure, 1259
• The Word of God and the Word of Man by Karl Barth, 1924 (English 1928) · Great Books
• Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God and A Faithful Narrative by Jonathan Edwards, 1737 / 1741
• Critique of Practical Reason by Immanuel Kant, 1788 · Great Books
• The Book of Enoch (1 Enoch) by Anonymous, c. 300–100 BC
• On the Incarnation of the Word by Athanasius of Alexandria, c. 318–337
• Cædmon's Hymn by Cædmon, c. 658-680
• Proslogion by Anselm of Canterbury, 1077–1078
• Come let us join our cheerful songs by Isaac Watts, 1707
• The lands that long in darkness lay by Isaac Watts, 1707
• Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion by David Hume, 1779
• The Destruction of Sennacherib by Lord Byron, 1815

Passages

From the texts

• The conduct of God, who disposes all things kindly, is to put religion into the mind by reason, and into the heart by grace.

  — Blaise Pascal, Pensees

Verified quotations

• God be praised for my jealousy

  — William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor

• Man is forgetful, but God remembers.

  — Anton Chekhov, Uncle Vanya

• for we here are in God's bosom, a land unknown

  — Francis Bacon, New Atlantis

• Thou god of this great vast, rebuke these surges

  — William Shakespeare, Pericles, Prince of Tyre

• Nothing was made by God for man to spoil or destroy

  — John Locke, Second Treatise of Government

• I say things happen not as we plan but as God judges

  — Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

Passages are verified quotations from the library that use one of these words: god, lord, creator, almighty. Sentences under “From the texts” are copied word for word from the full texts in this library. Read each in its context on the work's page.