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It is folly to seek the approbation of any being besides the Supreme; because no other being can make a right judgment of us, and because we can procure no considerable advantage from the approbation of any other being.: Joseph Addison

The Supreme Being has made the best argument for his own existence, in the formation of the heavens and the earth, and which a man of sense cannot forbear attending to who is out of the noise of human affairs.: Joseph Addison

The moral perfections of the Deity, the more attentively we consider, the more perfectly still shall we know them.: Joseph Addison

We should apply ourselves to study the perfections of God, and to procure lively and vigorous impressions of his perpetual presence with us and inspection over us.: Francis Atterbury

Would we be admitted into an acquaintance with God, let us study to resemble him. We must be partakers of a divine nature in order to partake of this high privilege and alliance.: Francis Atterbury

If God be infinitely holy, just, and good, he must take delight in those creatures that resemble him most in these perfections.: Francis Atterbury

We should contemplate reverently the works of nature and grace, the inscrutable ways of providence, and all the wonderful methods of God’s dealing with men.: Francis Atterbury

They that deny a God destroy a man’s nobility; for certainly man is of kin to the beasts by his body; and if he be not of kin to God by his spirit, he is a base and ignoble creature. It destroys, likewise, magnanimity, and the raising human nature.: Francis Bacon

The love of God ought continually to predominate in the mind, and give to every act of duty grace and animation.: James Beattie

God’s eternal duration is permanent and invisible, not measurable by time and motion, nor to be computed by number of successive moments.: Richard Bentley

Some thought and meditation are necessary; and a man may possibly be so stupid as not to have God in all his thoughts, or to say in his heart there is none.: Richard Bentley

The last property which qualifies God for the fittest object of our love is the advantageousness of his to us, both in the present and the future life.: Robert Boyle

All the loveliness imparted to the creature is lent it to give us enlarged conceptions of that vast confluence and immensity that exuberates in God.: Robert Boyle

Such immense power, such unsearchable wisdom, and such exuberant goodness, as may justly ravish us to an amazement, rather than a base admiration.: Robert Boyle

You owe little less for what you are not, than for what you are, to that discriminating mercy to which alone you owe your exemption from miseries.: Robert Boyle

As to the freeness or unmeritedness of God’s love, we need but consider that we so little could at first deserve his love, that he loved us even before we had a being.: Robert Boyle

Although to opinion there be many gods may seem an access in religion, and such as cannot at all consist with atheism; yet doth it deductively and upon inference include the same: for unity is the inseparable and essential attribute of Deity.: Sir Thomas Browne

This is the consolation of all good men, unto whom his ubiquity affordeth continual comfort and security, and this is the affliction of hell, to whom it affordeth despair and remediless calamity.: Sir Thomas Browne

I, who have brought my mind to so exclusive a veneration for the divine perfections that I have no admiration left for those of men, beyond my understanding of them, am yet very willing to honour virtue, so far as I am able to recognize and comprehend it.: Edmund Burke

Acquaint thyself with God, if thou wouldst taste his works.: William Cowper

God made the country, and man made the town.: William Cowper

God moves in a mysterious way His wonders to perform; He plants His footsteps in the sea, And rides upon the storm.: William Cowper

God never meant that man should scale the heavens By strides of human wisdom—in his works, Though wondrous; He commands us in his Word To seek him rather where his mercy shines.: William Cowper

Happy the man who sees a God employ’d In all the good and ill that chequer life!: William Cowper

God the first garden made, and the first city, Cain.: William Cowper

Not a flower But shows some touch, in freckle, streak, or stain, Of His unrivall’d pencil.: William Cowper

What is God but the very being of all things that yet are not, and the subsistence of things that are?: Ralph Cudworth

Some novelists make a contracted idea of God, consisting of nothing but will and power.: Ralph Cudworth

Contemplation of human nature doth by a necessary connection and chain of causes carry us up to the Deity.: Sir Matthew Hale

There is the same necessity for the divine influence and regimen to order and govern, conserve and keep together, the universe in that consistence it hath received, as it was at first to give it before it could receive it.: Sir Matthew Hale

God will protect and reward all his faithful servants in a manner and measure inexpressibly abundant.: Henry Hammond

God alone excepted; who actually and everlastingly is whatsoever he may be; and which cannot hereafter be that which now he is not: all other things besides are somewhat in possibility which as yet they are not in act.: Richard Hooker

God hath his influence into the very essence of all things, without which influence of Deity supporting them, their utter annihilation could not choose but follow.: Richard Hooker

That which moveth God to work is goodness, and that which ordereth his work is wisdom, and that which perfecteth his work is power.: Richard Hooker

Whom although to know be life, and joy to make mention of his name; yet our soundest knowledge is to know that we know him not as indeed he is, neither can know him; and our safest eloquence concerning him is silence.: Richard Hooker

As teaching bringeth us to know that God is our supreme truth, so prayer testifieth that we acknowledge him our supreme good.: Richard Hooker

God, of his great liberality, had determined, in lieu of man’s endeavours, to bestow the same by the rule of that justice which best beseemeth him.: Richard Hooker

Our own being furnishes us with an evident and incontestable proof of a Deity; and I believe nobody can avoid the cogency of it who will carefully attend to it.: John Locke

I think it unavoidable for every rational creature, that will examine his own or any other existence, to have the notion of an eternal, wise being, who had no beginning.: John Locke

Serving to give us due sentiments of the wisdom and goodness of the sovereign Disposer of all things.: John Locke

The whole evolution of ages, from everlasting to everlasting, is so collectively and presentifically represented to God at once, as if all things which ever were, are, or shall be, were at this very instant really present.: Sir Thomas More

To love God, which was a thing far excelling all the cunning that is possible for us in this life to obtain.: Sir Thomas More

We are not to consider the world as the body of God: he is an uniform being, void of organs, members, or parts; and they are his creatures, subordinate to him, and subservient to his will.: Sir Isaac Newton

There never was a man of solid understanding, whose apprehensions are sober, and by a pensive inspection advised, but that he hath found by an irresistible necessity one true God and everlasting being.: Sir Walter Raleigh

These be those discourses of God whose effects those that live witness in themselves; the sensible in their sensible natures, the reasonable in their reasoning souls.: Sir Walter Raleigh

God is absolutely good; and so, assuredly, the cause of all that is good: but of anything that is evil he is no cause at all.: Sir Walter Raleigh

Power, light, virtue, wisdom, and goodness, being all but attributes of one simple essence, and of one God, we in all admire, and in part discern.: Sir Walter Raleigh

There was no other cause proceeding than his own will, no other matter than his own power, no other workman than his own word, and no other consideration than his own infinite goodness.: Sir Walter Raleigh

When my reason is afloat, my faith cannot long remain in suspense, and I believe in God as firmly as in any other truth whatever: in short, a thousand motives draw me to the consolatory side, and add the weight of hope to the equilibrium of reason.: Jean Jacques Rousseau

Doth this man serve God?: William Shakespeare

That foul defacer of God’s handy-work.: William Shakespeare

God and St. George! Saint George and victory!: William Shakespeare

God save the mark!: William Shakespeare

There is no nation, though plunged into never such gross idolatry, but has some awful sense of a Deity, and a persuasion of a state of retribution after this life.: Robert South

This doctrine of God’s good will towards men, this command of men’s proportionable good will to one another, is not this the very body and substance, this the very spirit and life, of our Saviour’s whole institution?: Thomas Sprat

Those who apply themselves to learning are forced to acknowledge one God, incorruptible and unbegotten; who is the only true being, and abides forever above the highest heavens, from whence He beholds all the things that are done in heaven and earth.: Edward Stillingfleet

Kircher lays it down as a certain principle, that there never was any people so rude which did not acknowledge and worship one supreme Deity.: Edward Stillingfleet

God delights in the ministries of his own choice, and the methods of grace, in the economy of heaven, and the dispensations of eternal happiness.: Jeremy Taylor

God brings good out of evil; and therefore it were but reason we should trust God to govern his own world.: Jeremy Taylor

Let us always bear about us such impressions of reverence, and fear of God, that we may humble ourselves before his almightiness, and express that infinite distance between his infiniteness and our weaknesses.: Jeremy Taylor

No duty in religion is more justly required by God Almighty than a perfect submission to his will in all things.: Sir William Temple

No constant reason of this can be given, but from the nature of man’s mind, which hath this notion of a Deity born with it and stamped upon it; or is of such a frame that in the free use of itself it will find out God.: John Tillotson

We have as great assurance that there is a God as we could expect to have, supposing that he were.: John Tillotson

Which way soever we turn ourselves, we are encountered with clear evidences and sensible demonstrations of a Deity.: John Tillotson

If a wise man were left to himself, and his own choice, to wish the greatest good to himself he could devise, the sum of all his wishes would be this, That there were just such a being as God is.: John Tillotson

If a wise man were left to himself, and his own choice, to wish the greatest good to himself he could devise, the sum of all his wishes would be this, That there were just such a being as God is.: John Tillotson

Man, without the protection of a superior being, is secure of nothing that he enjoys, and uncertain of everything he hopes for.: John Tillotson

Men sunk into the greatest darkness imaginable retain some sense and awe of a Deity.: John Tillotson

As the nature of God is excellent, so likewise is it to know him in those glorious manifestations of himself in the works of creation and providence.: John Tillotson

If we deal falsely in covenant with God, and break loose from all our engagements to him, we release God from all the promises he has made to us.: John Tillotson

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