Let us read some striking passage, Cull a verse from every page; Learn a little every day. ANONYMOUS All that is wise has been thought already; we must try, however, to think it again. GOETHE Merciful and gracious is the Lord; long-suffering and full of kindness. PSALM CIII. 8 God hath sown His name on the heavens in glittering stars, but upon earth He planteth His name by tender flowers. JEAN PAUL RICHTER There's a wideness in God's mercy Like the wideness of the sea; Than the measures of man's mind, Is most wonderfully kind. F. W. FABER Nothing is superior to God; He must, therefore, govern the world. God is subject to no principle of nature; therefore He rules the whole of nature. CICERO This God, absolute Master of Earth and Heaven -the Eternal is His name, the world is His work; He hears the sigh of the lowly who is outraged, judges all men with equal laws, and from His high throne questions kings. RACINE If you wish to behold God, you may see Him in every object round; search in your breast, and you will find Him there; and if you do not yet perceive where He dwells, confute me, if you can, and say He is not. METASTASIO The God who created these fair heavens with the same facility as yon green sapling; He who has bestowed on man a life of toil, of transient joys and fleeting pains-He, He is one only God! His mighty name is Jehovah! Earth's Creator and Judge! adored by Adam, first of men,-by Adam's sons, and then by Abraham, our father. KLOPSTOCK God is where the sun glows; God is where the violet blooms; God is where yon bird is flapping its wings; God is where this worm is moving; though no friend be with thee, fear nothing! Thy God is here. ENGEL So long as the word "God" endures in a language, will it direct the eyes of men upward. JEAN PAUL RICHTER Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth. ECCLESIASTES XII. I To pious minds each verdant leaf displays FROM THE ARABIC God asks not "To what sect did he belong? FROM THE ARABIC |