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Quotation from Silas Marner by George Eliot
“there is no just God that governs the earth righteously, but a God of lies, that bears witness against the innocent”
Silas Marner, Chapter I (Project Gutenberg #550)
Condemned by the drawing of lots, Silas turns on William Dane and on the God he believes has abandoned him.
Citation: "there is no just God that governs the earth righteously, but a God of lies, that bears witness against the innocent" — George Eliot, Silas Marner, Chapter I (Project Gutenberg #550). (id silas-marner-q1)
Portrait: Silas Marner 1, Published by Blackwood, 1861, Public domain.
