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3.The nature and attributes of God
3a.God as eternal, unchangeable, self-subsistent being
See also: Change 2c
The Book of PsalmsVol. 44
- p. 255–258God as dwelling-place through all generations, source of wrath and lovingkindness.read · scan
Sophocles, Oedipus the KingVol. 8
- p. 228–235In the heavenly laws our God is great and grows not old.read · scan
Plato, PhaedoVol. 2
- p. 101–102All agree God and the essential form of life never perish.read · scan
Epictetus, The Golden Sayings of EpictetusVol. 2
- p. 153Man should be self-sufficient as God dwells alone, contemplating His administration.read · scan
Saint Augustine, The Confessions of St. AugustineVol. 7
- p. 9–10God is the source of being and life, supremely Essence and Life; Augustine asks whence he could be if not from God.read · scan
- p. 27–28Every vice imitates a perfection found only in God: exaltedness, honor, knowledge, rest, justice, safety.read · scan
- p. 35–37God is the life of souls, life of lives, unchanging, and not any body, celestial or otherwise.read · scan
- p. 40God cannot be harmed or defiled, is Creator and Governor of the universe, merciful to those who confess.read · scan
- p. 57–58God is the true light of every man, with no variableness or shadow of change.read · scan
- p. 58–59He wrongly imagined God changeable and subject to constraint, though God's substance is unchangeable.read · scan
- p. 99Nebridius's argument: if God could be harmed by darkness He is corruptible; if not, fighting it is pointless; His substance must be incorruptible.read · scan
- p. 100–101God is good, just and unchangeable; not to be thought to suffer ill.read · scan
- p. 115He learned God is infinite, not in space, unchanging, and the source of all being.read · scan
- p. 118He is certain of God's eternal life and of an incorruptible substance from which all substance comes.read · scan
- p. 178God is addressed as Truth and light.read · scan
- p. 179–180God is unchangeable Lord of the mind, found not among images or affections but in Truth above; He answers all who seek counsel.read · scan
Chapters from the KoranVol. 45
- p. 949–950There is no god but He, living and self-subsistent; nothing hidden from Him; He fashions men in the womb.read · scan
- p. 957–958God is independent of the worlds and all affairs return to Him.read · scan
Stories from the Thousand and One NightsVol. 16
- p. 302God the Eternal, Living who dieth not, decrees the event that befell them.read · scan
- p. 310–311Musa extols God, whom ages and times do not change, the Creator.read · scan
- p. 319–320God is Creator, Cause of causes, Everlasting, and cuts short the lives of mankind.read · scan
Dante Alighieri, ParadiseVol. 20
- p. 347Dante's thoughts are transmitted from God, as all numbers ray from unityread · scan
- p. 395God is the Alpha and Omega, the essence of all good, whose light every good reflects.read · scan
- p. 423The eternal Light, alone self-dwelling and self-understood, shows within itself our human image.read · scan
Thomas à Kempis, The Imitation of ChristVol. 7
- p. 295The Creator has nothing like Himself among creatures; all that is not God is nothing.read · scan
- p. 303–304God is unchanging, good, righteous and holy, disposing all in wisdom.read · scan
Sir Walter Raleigh, Preface to the History of the WorldVol. 39
- p. 104God's timely performing of a will he always held shows constancy, not changeread · scan
Francis Bacon, Essays, Civil and MoralVol. 3
- p. 28Man who partakes of God's theatre shares God's rest; God saw his works were very good.read · scan
René Descartes, Discourse on the Method of Rightly Conducting the Reason and Seeking the Truth in the SciencesVol. 34
- p. 29God's attributes determined by excluding imperfections like doubt and sadness; God is not composite, and all creatures depend on his power.read · scan
Sir Thomas Browne, Religio MediciVol. 3
- p. 280–281God is eternal, before and after the world yet not older than it, and in his years there is no climacteric.read · scan
- p. 286God made all things for his own glory, receiving homage from angels and man; he alone truly is, and all else exists dependently.read · scan
John Milton, Paradise LostVol. 4
- p. 136The hymn celebrates the Father as omnipotent, immutable, immortal, infinite, eternal and invisible, and the Son as his visible image and agent.read · scan
- p. 249God is perfect, alone from eternity, self-sufficient and infinite, needing no companion, unlike Man.read · scan
Blaise Pascal, ThoughtsVol. 48
- p. 240God the first and last, who blots out transgressions for his own sake and has formed a people for his praise.read · scan
Blaise Pascal, LettersVol. 48
- p. 333God alone truly exists; men are viewed only through the mediator Christ.read · scan
Blaise Pascal, Minor WorksVol. 48
- p. 366God is unchanging amid human change, equally God when he afflicts and when he comforts.read · scan
- p. 366God alone endures; he will consume the world and judge all men, so nothing but he is worthy of love.read · scan
George Berkeley, Three Dialogues Between Hylas and PhilonousVol. 37
- p. 275Debates whether God's decree making things perceptible is eternal or a new willing, and whether change in God implies imperfection.read · scan
Christopher Smart, PoemsVol. 41
- p. 490–492Jehovah's I AM answered by all nature: 'Thou art.'read · scan
Robert Burns, Poems and SongsVol. 6
- p. 33–35God is eternal creator and upholder; a thousand years to him are as yesterday, and he gives and takes life.read · scan
Friedrich von Schiller, Letters upon the Aesthetic Education of ManVol. 32
- p. 240–241An infinite divinity cannot become or be subject to time; striving toward its attributes is called divine.read · scan
Ralph Waldo Emerson, CompensationVol. 5
- p. 99–100Existence, or God, is the whole, not a relation or part; virtue is the incoming of this being.read · scan
Ralph Waldo Emerson, English TraitsVol. 5
- p. 318–320God is a God of order; the idea of God is super-essential, not essential.read · scan
Robert Browning, PoemsVol. 42
- p. 1102–1103The musician turns to the ineffable Name, the unchanging builder, to whom no loss is final.read · scan
James Russell Lowell, Abraham LincolnVol. 28
- p. 436God is the only being who has time enough.read · scan
3b.God as spirit, incorporeal and omnipresent
The Book of PsalmsVol. 44
- p. 319God is omniscient and omnipresent: no flight to heaven, Sheol, sea or darkness escapes him; he formed man in the womb.read · scan
Saint Augustine, The Confessions of St. AugustineVol. 7
- p. 5–6Puzzles over how God can enter or be contained by a creature when He fills heaven and earth and all things exist in Him.read · scan
- p. 37–38God is Spirit, not bodily or extended; man made in his image, which Augustine did not then understand.read · scan
- p. 62–63God is omnipresent, seeing all, forsaking nothing He made; His government is just and perfect, and He remakes and comforts those who turn to Him.read · scan
- p. 82God is wholly everywhere and nowhere in space, not of corporeal shape, yet made man after His own image.read · scan
- p. 99Imagines God as a vast substance penetrating the universe, then rejects this as false since it makes God divisible.read · scan
Thomas à Kempis, The Imitation of ChristVol. 7
- p. 243–244God alone is eternal, incomprehensible, filling all things and the joy of the heart.read · scan
- p. 260–261God alone is good, just and holy, omnipotent and filling all things.read · scan
John Milton, Paradise LostVol. 4
- p. 319Michael teaches God's omnipresence: he fills land, sea and air, not confined to Paradise, and shows paternal love everywhere.read · scan
William Penn, Some Fruits of SolitudeVol. 1
- p. 360God is an infinite Spirit everywhere, to be worshipped in spirit and in truth.read · scan
William Penn, More Fruits of SolitudeVol. 1
- p. 384Friends live in that which is omnipresent, seeing face to face in the divine glass.read · scan
George Berkeley, Three Dialogues Between Hylas and PhilonousVol. 37
- p. 230–232Sensible things depend on an infinite omnipresent Spirit who contains and supports the world; Hylas says Christians hold this too.read · scan
- p. 261–262Hylas argues that if pain ideas are in God, God suffers, an imperfection; Philonous has identified the cause as God.read · scan
- p. 262–263Philonous argues God, a pure spirit unaffected by external beings, knows pain but cannot suffer it; suffering is an imperfection.read · scan
- p. 279Immaterialism proves God's spirituality, omnipresence, providence and infinite power and goodness; nature's order shows an all-perfect Mind.read · scan
Percy Bysshe Shelley, The CenciVol. 18
- p. 334Beatrice says God is in Rome as here, clothing the innocent and injured with his shadow.read · scan
Ralph Waldo Emerson, CirclesVol. 5
- p. 149Augustine's God as a circle whose centre is everywhere and circumference nowhere.read · scan
3c.God's omnipotence and the freedom of his will
See also: Will 7c
The Book of JobVol. 44
- p. 76–77Eliphaz counsels committing one's cause to God, who does unsearchable things, exalts the low and thwarts the crafty.read · scan
- p. 137–138Jehovah out of the whirlwind challenges Job to contend with the Almighty and shows his power in creating behemoth.read · scan
- p. 138–139God's claim that everything under heaven is his; the creature displays his power beyond human contest.read · scan
- p. 140–141Job acknowledges God's omnipotence and that no purpose of his can be restrained; God vindicates Job over his friends.read · scan
The Book of PsalmsVol. 44
- p. 160God's way is perfect, he is a shield and rock who girds the psalmist with strength.read · scan
- p. 225–226God gives strength and power to his people and is terrible in his holy places.read · scan
- p. 290Jehovah in the heavens does as he pleases, made heaven and earth, and helps and blesses those who trust him.read · scan
- p. 315Jehovah is great, above all gods, does whatever he pleases in heaven and earth, controls weather, and chose Israel.read · scan
Sophocles, Oedipus the KingVol. 8
- p. 215Oedipus says man cannot force the gods to do what they will not.read · scan
Plato, The Apology of SocratesVol. 2
- p. 9The god cannot lie, so the oracle must be tested rather than doubted.read · scan
Luke, The Gospel According to LukeVol. 44
- p. 384–385Casting out demons by the finger of God shows the kingdom of God has come upon them.read · scan
- p. 401–402What is impossible with men is possible with God.read · scan
Epictetus, The Golden Sayings of EpictetusVol. 2
- p. 162–163God is the Commander incomparable in might and excellence.read · scan
Saint Augustine, The Confessions of St. AugustineVol. 7
- p. 41God may suddenly command the unwonted, hiding his reasons; a society is just which serves Him.read · scan
- p. 101–102God must be incorruptible, the sovereign best good, whose will and power are identical and cannot be constrained.read · scan
Chapters from the KoranVol. 45
- p. 886The Lord of the throne and of the worlds decides whom he pleases.read · scan
- p. 898–899God makes men laugh and weep, kills and gives life, creates pairs, enriches, and destroyed 'Ad, Thamud and Noah's people.read · scan
- p. 908–909God's mercy and power: it is easy for Him, who created man from nothing, to grant a son in old age.read · scan
- p. 940–941God's judgment is irreversible; He blots out or confirms, and His craft surpasses all.read · scan
- p. 943–944Victory is only from God, who is mighty and wise.read · scan
- p. 952–953God provides without count and does what He pleases, even granting a son to the old and barren.read · scan
- p. 959–960Victory comes only from God, who forgives and punishes whom He pleases.read · scan
- p. 980–981God owns all in heaven and earth, encompasses all things, and is sufficient guardian and able to replace men.read · scan
- p. 988–989God's decree governs all; He is merciful, all-knowing and sufficient guardian of believers.read · scan
- p. 996God's is the kingdom of heavens and earth, creating what He will, punishing and pardoning as He pleases.read · scan
- p. 1005–1006God recounts favours to Jesus and answers the apostles' request by sending a table, threatening severe torment for disbelief afterward.read · scan
BeowulfVol. 49
- p. 80–82God gave victory and his will cannot be baffled by men.read · scan
- p. 86–87Only Heaven's King could allow the spell-bound hoard to be opened for whom he chose.read · scan
Stories from the Thousand and One NightsVol. 16
- p. 20The disenchantment is worked by permission of God, and a spell invokes God's will.read · scan
- p. 222–223Reunion is entrusted to the Compassionate, who grants boons to whom He pleases.read · scan
- p. 231–232He praises God's power and dominion: He enriches or impoverishes whom He wills and is not to be questioned.read · scan
- p. 322–323God gives life and kills, is able to do everything; whatever He wills comes to pass.read · scan
- p. 355God is omnipotent, turns woe into joy and decrees the ring as the means of escape.read · scan
Dante Alighieri, HellVol. 20
- p. 13Divine will decides Dante's passage: 'where will and power are one'.read · scan
Dante Alighieri, ParadiseVol. 20
- p. 293–296God as King plants His will in each, and grace is unequally showered.read · scan
Thomas à Kempis, The Imitation of ChristVol. 7
- p. 293–294God is omnipotent stronghold and healer; no other help or counsel is strong beside Him.read · scan
Benvenuto Cellini, The Autobiography of Benvenuto CelliniVol. 31
- p. 250–252Prison teaches the power of God's dominion and man's resemblance to Him.read · scan
Sir Walter Raleigh, Preface to the History of the WorldVol. 39
- p. 103God's power and wisdom exceed the world; he is called Almighty, infinitely able, and his works are hiddenread · scan
- p. 104God is free in will and choice of time, not bound as natural necessity like fire burningread · scan
John Winthrop, Arbitrary Government Described and the Government of the Massachusetts Vindicated from That AspersionVol. 43
- p. 85God alone has absolute sovereignty, whose will is a perfect rule.read · scan
- p. 92–93Prescribing penalties without rule usurps God's prerogative; He promises assistance to judges.read · scan
George Herbert, PoemsVol. 40
- p. 343–345God's power kills and quickens, brings down to hell and up to heaven.read · scan
Sir Thomas Browne, Religio MediciVol. 3
- p. 263God needs no deliberation; His intellect stands ready with goodness and His will acts immediately, unlike human consultation.read · scan
- p. 279God's power is the same as his will; all things are equally easy to him, and we too narrowly restrain his power to our capacities.read · scan
- p. 296–297Only the breath of God can consume the world; creation was above nature.read · scan
John Milton, Paradise LostVol. 4
- p. 88–90God as potent Victor and Heaven's King whose supremacy is put to proof.read · scan
- p. 170The Eternal hangs golden scales in Heaven, weighing events and showing Satan's light weakness.read · scan
- p. 180The Father, smiling, sees the rebellion and speaks of his omnipotence and claim of deity to the Sonread · scan
- p. 180God as creator can uncreate rebelsread · scan
- p. 204The Eternal King overrules and limits the angels' mightread · scan
- p. 220The Father foresees the tumult, permits it, and transfers power to his Son to end the war.read · scan
- p. 227The Father resolves to create another world and race of men; his goodness is free, and his will is Fate.read · scan
- p. 281Adam argues God's power and wisdom would not undo his creation, nor let the Adversary scorn him.read · scan
John Milton, Paradise RegainedVol. 4
- p. 359His mother says his Father is the Eternal King over heaven and earth.read · scan
John Milton, Samson AgonistesVol. 4
- p. 415Chorus defends God's right to dispense his people from his own laws; Manoa laments why God grants gifts that turn to woe.read · scan
- p. 415God puts invincible might into a deliverer's hands.read · scan
Blaise Pascal, ThoughtsVol. 48
- p. 215God shows His power to give invisible blessings by his power over visible things.read · scan
- p. 216God created the Jewish people to show that depriving His own of perishable blessings was not from lack of power.read · scan
- p. 217In God word does not differ from intention or effect, for He is true, powerful and wise.read · scan
- p. 217–218Augustine's rule: God can do everything except what would make Him not almighty, such as dying, being deceived or lying.read · scan
- p. 221God's will is the standard of goodness and justice.read · scan
- p. 290God chooses the house to display His power.read · scan
- p. 293–294God's power surpasses that of his enemies; miraculous works show communion with God.read · scan
- p. 297Miracles prove God's power over hearts by his power over bodies.read · scan
George Berkeley, Three Dialogues Between Hylas and PhilonousVol. 37
- p. 239–240An omnipotent spirit needs no instrument; using one would be incompatible with God's infinite perfection and unlimited will.read · scan
- p. 240–241God's wisdom and power suffice to explain the order of our ideas; an unthinking substance directing Him derogates from His attributes.read · scan
Voltaire, Letters on the EnglishVol. 34
- p. 106–107Denying God can give matter thought limits the Creator's power; God does nothing in vain.read · scan
Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Profession of Faith of a Savoyard VicarVol. 34
- p. 267–268God's attributes: intuitive intelligence, power identical with will, goodness as love of order; his essence remains inconceivable, and he is adored.read · scan
John Woolman, The Journal of John WoolmanVol. 1
- p. 232–233Contending with the omnipotent Lord is hopeless; his judgments should be regarded with humiliation.read · scan
- p. 252God is perfection of power, wisdom and goodness, providing for men's support.read · scan
Immanuel Kant, Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of MoralsVol. 32
- p. 351–352Perfection as the will of God is one proposed determining ground of the will.read · scan
- p. 353Divine will conceived through glory, dominion, might and vengeance would oppose morality.read · scan
Robert Burns, Poems and SongsVol. 6
- p. 35–37Addresses God as great Governor and Omnipotence who can still tempests and aid him.read · scan
- p. 271–274Omnipotence alone can heal the wound and point grieving eyes to scenes beyond the grave.read · scan
Alessandro Manzoni, I Promessi Sposi (The Betrothed)Vol. 21
- p. 588God can arrest the oppressor's hand and the revengeful's; man is made in his image.read · scan
Elizabeth Barrett Browning, PoemsVol. 41
- p. 924God's 'Nay' is felt as a darker exclusion than death; heaven rolled between them cannot lessen their vow.read · scan
- p. 936–937She thinks God has willed a renewable fear that their clasped hands might part.read · scan
Ernest Renan, The Poetry of the Celtic RacesVol. 32
- p. 169Patrick bids Ossian not to compare Finn to the King of Kings, whose might knows no bounds.read · scan
3d.God's omniscience and foreknowledge
The Book of JobVol. 44
- p. 104–105Job asks whether anyone can teach God knowledge, who judges the high.read · scan
- p. 114–115God sees to the ends of the earth, weights the wind, measures the waters and decrees rain and lightning; Job recalls his friendship with him.read · scan
- p. 126–127God sees all human ways, no darkness hides evildoers, and he overturns mighty men in ways past finding out.read · scan
The Book of PsalmsVol. 44
- p. 262God who formed the eye and ear sees and hears; teacher of man, refuge and high tower.read · scan
Epictetus, The Golden Sayings of EpictetusVol. 2
- p. 170–171Gods give these gifts and are near all places alike, seeing everything.read · scan
Epictetus, Fragments Attributed to EpictetusVol. 2
- p. 185God stands by to behold all deeds and prayers of body and soul, and dwells with the one who remembers this.read · scan
Marcus Aurelius, The Meditations of Marcus AureliusVol. 2
- p. 294–295God sees minds bared of matter and touches with his intellect the intelligence derived from himself in bodies.read · scan
Saint Augustine, The Confessions of St. AugustineVol. 7
- p. 41–42God hears and cares for each as if for him alone, and for all as one.read · scan
- p. 160God sees the abyss of man's conscience; Augustine opens himself to Him and chooses Him.read · scan
- p. 163God is all-knowing judge and maker of man, faithful, who limits temptation and illumines the soul.read · scan
Chapters from the KoranVol. 45
- p. 911–912The Lord of heavens and earth is never forgetful; He guides and increases guidance.read · scan
- p. 937–938God knows the unseen and visible, every womb, all dimensions; strong in might, forgiving yet keen to punish.read · scan
- p. 961God is the best of helpers who tests hearts and knows the nature of men's breasts; the affair is God's.read · scan
- p. 963–964God knows what hearts hide and rewards believers with mighty grace.read · scan
- p. 990–991God knows all things, displayed or concealed, and curses those who annoy Him and His Apostle.read · scan
- p. 1003–1004God knows all in heaven and earth, is severe in punishment yet forgiving and merciful.read · scan
- p. 1005God knows the unseen; apostles confess they have no knowledge on judgment day.read · scan
Stories from the Thousand and One NightsVol. 16
- p. 250God is called all-knowing and omniscient; the voyagers depart relying on His blessing and aid.read · scan
Dante Alighieri, ParadiseVol. 20
- p. 322Dante argues that since God sees all and the blessed see in Him, Folco can know Dante's unspoken wish.read · scan
- p. 398God is truth's mirror seeing all wills; name El was used for the Chief Good.read · scan
Geoffrey Chaucer, The Prologue to the Canterbury Tales; The Nun's Priest's TaleVol. 40
- p. 44God's foreknowledge and writing discussed.read · scan
Thomas à Kempis, The Imitation of ChristVol. 7
- p. 211–212Every good gift comes from God, who knows what is in man and judges otherwise than men.read · scan
- p. 307God as Teacher, Searcher of hearts and Discerner of thoughts.read · scan
Sir Walter Raleigh, Preface to the History of the WorldVol. 39
- p. 68–69God's infinite eye and justice pierce all pretences; conscience is the only accuser needed.read · scan
Sir Walter Raleigh, PoemsVol. 40
- p. 207Heaven is the spectator who views whoever acts amiss.read · scan
John Winthrop, Arbitrary Government Described and the Government of the Massachusetts Vindicated from That AspersionVol. 43
- p. 91–92God's sovereignty and foreknowledge allow sentencing before the offence.read · scan
Sir Thomas Browne, Religio MediciVol. 3
- p. 301–303God beholds all things in their epitome as fully as in their full volume, the whole world in the sixth day.read · scan
- p. 315God alone truly knows man, beholding the substance and forms without derived rays or accidents.read · scan
- p. 328–329God whose nature cannot sleep keeps watch over the sleeper.read · scan
John Milton, Paradise LostVol. 4
- p. 108God's mind views all things at one view, seeing and deriding the rebels' plots.read · scan
- p. 135The Argument shows God foreseeing Satan's success, declaring his purpose of grace, and the Son's offer of ransom for mankind.read · scan
- p. 291God is all-seeing and omniscient; he foretold the fall and appoints his Son as judge, mediator and redeemer.read · scan
Blaise Pascal, ThoughtsVol. 48
- p. 245God in heaven alone reveals secrets that soothsayers and wise men cannot; Daniel disclaims his own wisdom.read · scan
- p. 246God makes known the future and establishes a kingdom never to be destroyed.read · scan
John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's ProgressVol. 15
- p. 148–149God knows our inmost thoughts and sees sin we cannot; our righteousness stinks before him.read · scan
William Penn, Some Fruits of SolitudeVol. 1
- p. 361God is present, overseer of thoughts and avenger of his law, and our benefactor deserving reverence.read · scan
George Berkeley, Three Dialogues Between Hylas and PhilonousVol. 37
- p. 255–256Real things are known and comprehended by the infinite mind of God; scriptural notions of Deity oppose absolute material existence.read · scan
- p. 269–270The archetype exists in the Mind that comprehends all things.read · scan
- p. 273–274All objects are eternally known in God's mind; beginning and ending of existence applies only to creatures.read · scan
Immanuel Kant, Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of MoralsVol. 32
- p. 348Even the Supreme Being would judge men only by their disinterested conduct.read · scan
Robert Burns, Poems and SongsVol. 6
- p. 184–186Only the maker of the heart knows its chords and can justly judge.read · scan
- p. 215–217God as Architect Divine and Omniscient Eye watching over the brethrenread · scan
Alessandro Manzoni, I Promessi Sposi (The Betrothed)Vol. 21
- p. 68God sees all and can use an unworthy instrument to confound the wrongdoer.read · scan
Ralph Waldo Emerson, An Address Delivered before the Senior Class in Divinity CollegeVol. 5
- p. 37A true teacher shows God is, not was; men avoid the God who sees in secret.read · scan
- p. 39–40Conversing with God removes ordinary merits; souls are open to the all-knowing Spirit.read · scan
Dante Gabriel Rossetti, PoemsVol. 42
- p. 1172–1174God knows what help means, whether life or death, and the cost of a throne in His house on high.read · scan
3e.Goodness, mercy and love as divine attributes
See also: Sin 9a
The Book of PsalmsVol. 44
- p. 170–171God's paths are lovingkindness and truth; he befriends and instructs those who fear him.read · scan
- p. 177–179Jehovah forgives, preserves as hiding-place, and instructs; trust in him brings lovingkindness.read · scan
- p. 205–206God is merciful, just in judgment, desiring truth in the inward parts.read · scan
- p. 241–242God provides manna and quail, is wrathful, yet merciful, forgiving iniquity and not destroying them.read · scan
- p. 250–251God addressed as merciful, forgiving, slow to anger, unique among gods, whose works have no equal and whom all nations shall worship.read · scan
- p. 269Jehovah enduring, merciful, regarding the prayer of the destitute and hearing the prisoner's sighing.read · scan
- p. 270–271Jehovah merciful, forgiving, healing, slow to anger, ruling over all from his throne in heaven.read · scan
- p. 278–281Jehovah angered yet compassionate, remembering his covenant according to lovingkindness.read · scan
- p. 283–285God's lovingkindness great above the heavens; he gives victory, and human help is vain.read · scan
- p. 318–319Thanks to Jehovah for lovingkindness and truth; he is high yet regards the lowly and the haughty from afar, preserving the psalmist.read · scan
- p. 326–327Jehovah is great, unsearchable, gracious and merciful, provider for every living thing, king of an everlasting kingdom, righteous in all ways.read · scan
Paul, The First Epistle of Paul to the CorinthiansVol. 45
- p. 491–492God is faithful, calls believers into fellowship with his Son and gives grace.read · scan
- p. 501–503God is faithful and will not allow temptation beyond endurance, providing a way of escape.read · scan
Paul, The Second Epistle of Paul to the CorinthiansVol. 45
- p. 517God is faithful, establishes and anoints believers, seals them with the Spirit as earnest.read · scan
- p. 526–527God is able to make grace abound and is thanked for his unspeakable gift.read · scan
Marcus Aurelius, The Meditations of Marcus AureliusVol. 2
- p. 252–253The immortal gods patiently tolerate and care for bad men; so should we.read · scan
- p. 259God's kindness lets man, unlike a severed limb, be reunited with the whole.read · scan
- p. 268The gods are kind, even helping wrongdoers to health, wealth and reputation.read · scan
Saint Augustine, The Confessions of St. AugustineVol. 7
- p. 7–8God as merciful giver of all good things, providing infant food through mothers and nurses.read · scan
- p. 18–19God is long-suffering, plenteous in mercy, drawing the seeking soul from the gulf.read · scan
- p. 22God is the One Good, sweetness never failing, who let him wander in silence.read · scan
- p. 28–29God as creator of all nature, source of grace and mercy, physician who cures and preserves from sin.read · scan
- p. 32–33God's faithful mercy hovered over him though he strayed like a sheep.read · scan
Chapters from the KoranVol. 45
- p. 881God is most worthy of fear and most worthy to forgive; men remember only if He pleases.read · scan
- p. 882The Lord has not forsaken the prophet; He sheltered the orphan, guided the erring and nourished the poor.read · scan
- p. 882–883God is merciful and compassionate, ruler of the day of judgment, Lord of the worlds.read · scan
- p. 905–906The Lord of the worlds is mighty and merciful, and He alone rewards the apostles.read · scan
- p. 906God is mighty, merciful and compassionate, and saves the faithful.read · scan
- p. 919–920God's grace preserves the Prophet from temptation; the Qur'an is a healing and mercy, inimitable by men and ginns.read · scan
- p. 955–956Guidance and grace are in God's hand; He bestows mercy on whom He pleases.read · scan
- p. 979God's grace and mercy guide the prophet; God forgives all but associating anything with Him.read · scan
Dante Alighieri, HellVol. 20
- p. 9Heavenly grace shields Beatrice from Hell's misery; God's judgment is inclined by the blessed Dame's mercy.read · scan
Thomas à Kempis, The Imitation of ChristVol. 7
- p. 240–241God protects, loves and reveals his secrets to the humble man.read · scan
- p. 315–316God is the Chief Good and Supreme Goodness who gives the gift of grace.read · scan
- p. 321God is gracious and merciful, showing riches of mercy beyond desert.read · scan
- p. 339–340God's goodness, tenderness and condescension in coming to the sinner for his own sake.read · scan
- p. 342–343God's condescending pity, infinite wisdom and bounty, source of all beauty in creation.read · scan
- p. 357God is the Peacemaker, hidden yet present to the humble faithful, giving Himself as food.read · scan
Sir Thomas More, UtopiaVol. 36
- p. 142God's new law of mercy rules men as a father, giving no license for cruelty.read · scan
Benvenuto Cellini, The Autobiography of Benvenuto CelliniVol. 31
- p. 241He praises God's power, virtue, clemency and immeasurable goodness revealed in the miraculous vision.read · scan
- p. 248–249Cellini answers that God's power and goodness need not stand in awe of malign forces; the servant urges him to trust God's mercy.read · scan
John Calvin, Dedication of the Institutes of the Christian ReligionVol. 39
- p. 50God's free mercy bestows salvation without regard to future works; God will be all in all.read · scan
William Harrison, A Description of Elizabethan EnglandVol. 35
- p. 319–320God shows himself a loving father in England's mineral gifts, yet men return ingratitude.read · scan
Miguel de Cervantes, The History of Don Quixote of the Mancha, Part IVol. 14
- p. 189–191The sonnet argues that if Love is a god he cannot be ignorant or cruel, since gods should not be cruel.read · scan
Thomas Hobbes, Of Man, Being the First Part of LeviathanVol. 34
- p. 396God promises Paradise to those who walk by His precepts, but by free grace.read · scan
Izaak Walton, The Life of Mr. George HerbertVol. 15
- p. 389–390God puts his shoulder to our burden and cares for us.read · scan
René Descartes, Discourse on the Method of Rightly Conducting the Reason and Seeking the Truth in the SciencesVol. 34
- p. 32–33God, wholly perfect and veracious, guarantees that our ideas contain some truth.read · scan
Sir Thomas Browne, Religio MediciVol. 3
- p. 269God's equity deals with us as natural parents, favouring the weaker with larger portions.read · scan
- p. 330All truly amiable is God or a shadow of Him; God loves only Himself and us for the part that is Himself.read · scan
John Milton, Paradise LostVol. 4
- p. 136The Father decrees grace to Man freely, while the Son extols this mercy and pleads God's goodness be not defeated.read · scan
- p. 292Judge and Saviour pities the pair and clothes them, arraying inward nakedness with righteousness and interceding.read · scan
- p. 304God judged with mildness and provided clothing, showing pity.read · scan
- p. 331God sets a covenant bow after the Flood, showing remission of wrath; no place is sacred unless men make it so.read · scan
- p. 331God relents from destroying mankind for one just man's sake and covenants never to flood the earth again.read · scan
- p. 342God remembers mercy and covenant, returning Israel from Babylon and uniting Godhead with manhood.read · scan
Sir Henry Vane, A Healing QuestionVol. 43
- p. 135God will pardon the contrite, dwell among them, and speak again in providences, declaring himself their all-wise God.read · scan
Blaise Pascal, ThoughtsVol. 48
- p. 140Man's vileness is no ground for denying that God's mercy can unite Himself to us.read · scan
- p. 162Mercy and justice are attributes God reveals to cure sloth and pride.read · scan
- p. 166It is not unworthy of God to draw wretched man out of misery, though unworthy to unite with him.read · scan
- p. 182The Christian God is not merely author of mathematical truths or providence over fortunes, but a God of love and comfort filling the soul.read · scan
- p. 251–252The Lord is faithful, merciful, guides the poor who hope in Him, and comforts His people.read · scan
- p. 252God assures forsaken Zion that he cannot forget her, more surely than a mother her child, and will restore her.read · scan
- p. 252–253The Lord as Saviour and Redeemer promises to save Zion's children and destroy enemies; He is mighty to redeem.read · scan
- p. 294God's duty to men forbids miracles that would instil hidden false teaching.read · scan
- p. 295God will not permit false miracles to lead into error, or will provide greater ones.read · scan
Blaise Pascal, LettersVol. 48
- p. 324God's goodness gives images of the lost good.read · scan
Blaise Pascal, Minor WorksVol. 48
- p. 381–382God is king of love, surrounded by those seeking benefits of love, contrasted with the king of desire.read · scan
John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's ProgressVol. 15
- p. 17–19The Lord and Governor of the country freely bestows the promised reward on the willing.read · scan
- p. 28–29God loves and forgives the one who knocks.read · scan
- p. 181–183God is presented as merciful, forgiving, and inviting her to his table and presence.read · scan
- p. 192–193The Keeper welcomes the children and raises Mercy, showing gracious acceptance.read · scan
John Dryden, All for Love; or, The World Well LostVol. 18
- p. 84Dolabella describes Heaven's mercy as its darling attribute, delighting to pardon erring man.read · scan
John Locke, Some Thoughts Concerning EducationVol. 37
- p. 116–118Child to be told God made all things good and protects him in the dark.read · scan
William Penn, Some Fruits of SolitudeVol. 1
- p. 340–341God's goodness, not merit, makes the difference between master and servant.read · scan
- p. 351Kings should imitate God's mercy and remember judgment in the next world.read · scan
- p. 361God is a bountiful master who bears, reprieves and forgives careless servants.read · scan
- p. 361–362God's goodness should move us to amend our ways; only he is the Perfect Good to whom worldly goods point.read · scan
- p. 366He that lives in love lives in God.read · scan
John Woolman, The Journal of John WoolmanVol. 1
- p. 169Experience of God's goodness and mercies and of divine love from early years.read · scan
Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in FranceVol. 24
- p. 229–230Convinced that no evil is acceptable to him whose essence is good, magistrates lose lawless domination.read · scan
William Blake, PoemsVol. 41
- p. 588–591God is Mercy, Pity, Peace and Love, wearing the human form divine; where love dwells, God dwells.read · scan
Robert Burns, Poems and SongsVol. 6
- p. 250–252Moral drawn: the benevolent, kind heart most resembles God.read · scan
William Ellery Channing, On the Elevation of the Laboring ClassesVol. 28
- p. 314Sees the goodness of God in placing us in a world where only labor keeps us alive.read · scan
- p. 339Denies that God commissioned a few to think for the rest; God's gifts of intelligence are for all.read · scan
Alessandro Manzoni, I Promessi Sposi (The Betrothed)Vol. 21
- p. 337–338The Unnamed scorns the weak who always invoke God; Lucia insists God pardons many sins for one deed of mercy.read · scan
- p. 338Lucia says God will reward his mercy and asks to be taken to a church.read · scan
- p. 344–346God's mercy and pardon are invoked as the source of possible relief.read · scan
- p. 383–384God has touched the Unnamed's heart and saved Lucia by a miracle; God's mercy and reward invoked.read · scan
- p. 384–385Conversion and rescue are attributed to the mercy of the Lord.read · scan
- p. 590–591God may grant Rodrigo an hour of repentance; Renzo told to bless God whatever the outcome.read · scan
Ralph Waldo Emerson, FriendshipVol. 5
- p. 109–110Love is called the essence of God, and friendship the most divine relation.read · scan
Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Over-SoulVol. 5
- p. 133Epigraph: God loves good souls as himself; they live in blest eternity.read · scan
Hans Christian Andersen, TalesVol. 17
- p. 297–298The Daisy learns from sun and Lark's song how good God is.read · scan
- p. 341–342The Father presses the flowers to His heart and kisses the one that pleases Him.read · scan
- p. 343The Almighty embraces the child and kisses the flower, giving it a voice.read · scan
John Stuart Mill, AutobiographyVol. 25
- p. 169Denies that God's attributes can be wholly unlike what we call goodness in men.read · scan
John Stuart Mill, On LibertyVol. 25
- p. 255–257Argues a good Creator delights in the growth of human capabilities rather than their suppression.read · scan
Elizabeth Barrett Browning, PoemsVol. 41
- p. 926–927God knows her poverty and accepts even the meanest who love Him.read · scan
- p. 932–934God's grace and gifts exceed man's best dreams; only God who made them rich can make them poor.read · scan
- p. 942God gently gives his beloved sleep, as quietly as dew falls; the speaker rests childlike on his love.read · scan
Alfred, Lord Tennyson, PoemsVol. 42
- p. 1011–1012She trusts God will pardon even birds of prey, but not the lawyerread · scan
Robert Browning, PoemsVol. 42
- p. 1079–1080God is great to grant and mighty to make, creating love to reward love.read · scan
John Ruskin, Sesame and LiliesVol. 28
- p. 109The breath of God is health, life and peace, contrasted with man's breath.read · scan
3f.Divine justice, wrath and judgment
See also: Justice 10c · Punishment 10a · Revenge 7b
Aeschylus, AgamemnonVol. 8
- p. 8–9Zeus, guardian of hearth and hospitality, sends the Atridae as avengers; divine wrath cannot be appeased by offerings.read · scan
- p. 19–21The chorus hails Zeus, lord of hospitality, who struck the blow at Paris.read · scan
- p. 21–22The blow that fells the sinner is of God, who does keep a reckoning.read · scan
- p. 30–33Zeus avenges outraged hospitality and the husband's wrong, though he tarries.read · scan
The Book of JobVol. 44
- p. 75By the breath of God the wicked perish.read · scan
- p. 82God will not cast away a perfect man nor uphold evildoers.read · scan
- p. 94The wicked stretch out a hand against the Almighty and are destroyed by his breath.read · scan
- p. 98Ruin marks him who knows not God.read · scan
- p. 101–102God acts as judge who casts out the wicked man's riches and wrath.read · scan
The Book of PsalmsVol. 44
- p. 148God hates wickedness and lies, and defends and blesses the righteous with favor.read · scan
- p. 149–150Jehovah is a righteous judge who hears prayer, saves the upright and is angry with the wicked every day.read · scan
- p. 151–152God's name and glory in the heavens; he sits as eternal king and righteous judge of the world.read · scan
- p. 155–156Jehovah in his holy temple tries the righteous, hates the wicked, and his words are pure; the psalmist asks how long he will forget him.read · scan
- p. 212–214God is invoked as deliverer from bloodthirsty workers of iniquity and judge of all nations.read · scan
- p. 215–216God as rock, refuge and salvation; power belongs to God, who renders to every man according to his work.read · scan
- p. 222–224God blesses, judges the peoples with equity, scatters enemies, and is father of the fatherless and judge of widows.read · scan
- p. 252–253God as source of salvation, wrath and hiding face; established Zion.read · scan
- p. 267–269God is holy, maker of his people, good, forgiving yet avenging.read · scan
- p. 278God saves for his name's sake, yet punishes; Moses intercedes to turn away wrath.read · scan
- p. 311–313Jehovah is righteous, cuts the cords of the wicked, and shows lovingkindness and redemption.read · scan
Sophocles, AntigoneVol. 8
- p. 267Divine laws are not from Zeus's edict of mortals but eternal; she fears sinning against the gods.read · scan
Herodotus, An Account of EgyptVol. 33
- p. 69–70He reads the gods as foreshowing an occasion to punish him if he does the impious deed.read · scan
Ecclesiastes; or, The PreacherVol. 44
- p. 338–339God judges and tests men to show them they are as beasts.read · scan
- p. 348–349Remember the Creator in youth; God will bring every work into judgment.read · scan
Plutarch, AristidesVol. 12
- p. 82–83The deity excels in immortality, power and virtue; men fear him for power, love him for justice.read · scan
Marcus Aurelius, The Meditations of Marcus AureliusVol. 2
- p. 264Injustice and lying offend the highest divinity, identified with universal nature.read · scan
Saint Augustine, The Confessions of St. AugustineVol. 7
- p. 105–106God is unchangeable and judges men; He hears the soul's silent contritions and is true joy.read · scan
Chapters from the KoranVol. 45
- p. 926God does not guide the craft of betrayers, and rewards those who do good, the future life being better.read · scan
- p. 931God is mighty, knowing, forgiving of sin, keen at punishment; none but He is good.read · scan
- p. 964God is heir of the heavens and earth and no unjust one to His servants.read · scan
- p. 1000–1001God is generous, curses the rebellious, puts out the fires of war, loves not the corrupt, and knows what is hidden.read · scan
BeowulfVol. 49
- p. 7The Creator and sovran God avenged Abel and exiled Cain's kin.read · scan
- p. 8–10The Almighty is named Doomsman of Deeds and Wielder of Wonder.read · scan
- p. 68The old king fears he angered God by breaking ancient law.read · scan
- p. 79–80He is content that the Ruler of Man will not wrath him for killing kinsmen.read · scan
Stories from the Thousand and One NightsVol. 16
- p. 39The fisherman says God spares those who spare and destroys those who seek another's destruction.read · scan
- p. 40–41The fisherman invokes God's name and jealousy; God respites but does not let the treacherous escape.read · scan
- p. 302God's decree smites man and he meets God at judgment.read · scan
Dante Alighieri, HellVol. 20
- p. 6Almighty King reigns over all, yet excludes Virgil as a rebel to his law, who did not worship him.read · scan
- p. 77Dante praises Supreme Wisdom's art in heaven, earth and hell, justly allotting reward to all.read · scan
- p. 128–130The giants defied Jove and made the gods fear; their prideful trial of strength is repaid.read · scan
- p. 140Lucifer dared to scowl upon his Maker.read · scan
Geoffrey Chaucer, The Prologue to the Canterbury Tales; The Nun's Priest's TaleVol. 40
- p. 40God is just, true and reasonable and reveals murder.read · scan
Thomas à Kempis, The Imitation of ChristVol. 7
- p. 311God as just Judge and Discerner of all secrets who tries hearts and permits events.read · scan
Sir Thomas More, UtopiaVol. 36
- p. 142God's vengeance on covetousness is seen in the rot that killed the sheep.read · scan
Benvenuto Cellini, The Autobiography of Benvenuto CelliniVol. 31
- p. 65–68Luigi's death by a fall is read as God keeping account of good and bad and giving each his deserts.read · scan
Edward Haies, Sir Humphrey Gilbert's Voyage to NewfoundlandVol. 33
- p. 267Gilbert's failure is left to God's mystery; God abhors disorder and judges those who use religion as a cloak.read · scan
- p. 276Divine judgments are said to fall on wrongdoers as examples to others.read · scan
- p. 277God alone knows the Newlander's fate and inflicts judgments on the wrongdoers.read · scan
Sir Walter Raleigh, Preface to the History of the WorldVol. 39
- p. 69–70God's judgments fall on the mighty and the private alike; wickedness cannot be hidden from the everlasting gods.read · scan
- p. 70–72God's judgments are unchangeable; he curses in every age what he cursed before.read · scan
- p. 76Innocent blood cries out and God obtains its avenging.read · scan
- p. 77God's providence avenges shed blood and diffuses the blood through grace to James.read · scan
- p. 80God is everywhere the same God, avenging wrongs.read · scan
- p. 83God's judgment refuses late repentance as payment for blood spilt.read · scan
- p. 84God is the same in Spain as in England and France; the Pope calls Pedro an enemy of God and man.read · scan
- p. 94God will not be mocked; late forgiveness sought after a life of appetite presumes on his mercy.read · scan
Francis Bacon, The New AtlantisVol. 3
- p. 157–158Divine revenge overtakes the proud enterprises of Atlantis, destroyed by inundation.read · scan
Christopher Marlowe, The Tragical History of Doctor FaustusVol. 19
- p. 248Faustus sees God's ireful brow and arm stretched out and begs the hills to hide him from God's wrath.read · scan
William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of King LearVol. 46
- p. 265–266Lear asks the great gods to find out their enemies with the tempest.read · scan
- p. 277–278Gloucester appeals to the kind gods and expects heavenly vengeance.read · scan
- p. 285–286Albany affirms the 'justicers' above who avenge crimes on earth.read · scan
Thomas Hobbes, Of Man, Being the First Part of LeviathanVol. 34
- p. 400Oaths call on the God the swearer fears as avenger of perfidy.read · scan
John Winthrop, Arbitrary Government Described and the Government of the Massachusetts Vindicated from That AspersionVol. 43
- p. 98Even the smallest offence deserves highest punishment before God's judgment seat; He assists those with clear calling.read · scan
John Milton, Paradise LostVol. 4
- p. 87God commands Satan and his crew driven out of Heaven.read · scan
- p. 180Eternal Father acts to fulfil all justice, leaving man without excuse.read · scan
- p. 204The Voice from a golden cloud commends Abdiel and commissions the loyal armiesread · scan
- p. 319The Father accepts the Son's request but decrees expulsion from Paradise.read · scan
Sir Henry Vane, A Healing QuestionVol. 43
- p. 119–120God, the righteous Judge, is appealed to and blesses the cause with victory.read · scan
- p. 122Christ is sole Lord of conscience, and all, governors and governed, will stand at his judgment.read · scan
- p. 127–128The righteous Judge of the whole world will do right to the oppressed.read · scan
Blaise Pascal, ThoughtsVol. 48
- p. 72Possibility of falling into the hands of an angry God.read · scan
- p. 176–177Jesus is left alone to the wrath of God.read · scan
- p. 188–189God is enemy of those whose covetousness He confounds.read · scan
John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's ProgressVol. 15
- p. 38–39God grows angry, leaves him and shuts him up in the cage.read · scan
- p. 112–113God's jealousy provoked by ingratitude for his kindnesses; Hopeful gives thanks and fears before him.read · scan
- p. 145–147God the Father is just and yet justifies the coming sinner.read · scan
John Dryden, PoemsVol. 40
- p. 387–388The judging God closes the book of Fate at the last assizes.read · scan
William Penn, Some Fruits of SolitudeVol. 1
- p. 344–345God's judgment upon greedy rich men lets their wealth run away by bad ways.read · scan
George Bubb Dodington, Lord Melcombe, Shorten SailVol. 40
- p. 463–464Short account between God and thee at death.read · scan
Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Profession of Faith of a Savoyard VicarVol. 34
- p. 264Divine goodness and justice ground hope that the virtuous will be indemnified in another life.read · scan
John Woolman, The Journal of John WoolmanVol. 1
- p. 224The purity and impartiality of the Divine Being's judgments, who hears the oppressed.read · scan
- p. 288The omnipotent God rises to judgment.read · scan
Friedrich Schiller, William TellVol. 26
- p. 443–444Rosselmann warns Gessler that a God in heaven will demand account for all deeds.read · scan
- p. 451–452Heaven is seen as the mightier lord and judge above the governor.read · scan
- p. 464–465Tell's vow was heard by God alone, who punishes and avenges.read · scan
- p. 472–474Women refuse to touch the man whom God's own hand has struck.read · scan
Alessandro Manzoni, I Promessi Sposi (The Betrothed)Vol. 21
- p. 83–84Cristoforo invokes God's watching eye over the poor and the account all must render before Him.read · scan
- p. 84–85God requires princes to account for the word preached to them and sends his minister as a token of mercy.read · scan
- p. 85–86Cristoforo declares the innocent under God's protection, man made in God's image, and God's justice unstoppable by walls or bravoes.read · scan
- p. 213Renzo warns that God will send thunderbolts instead of bread if they murder.read · scan
- p. 585–586Friar says God blesses Renzo's faithful affection, is more rigorous yet more indulgent than men, and will require an account of his conduct.read · scan
- p. 587–588God is the one who chastises, judges without being judged, scourges and forgives.read · scan
- p. 592–593God's justice and mercy in choosing survivors.read · scan
Percy Bysshe Shelley, The CenciVol. 18
- p. 310Orsino invokes God's high Providence as committing avenging to men; Lucretia asks if God's lightning will avenge.read · scan
- p. 314Orsino claims wisest God draws the threads of a just doom to one point.read · scan
- p. 329Beatrice claims Marzio was a weapon in the hand of God.read · scan
- p. 334Beatrice claims God is wise and just and that Heaven would avenge unnameable crimes.read · scan
- p. 343Appeal to God as Judge before whom the guilty must answer for murder and broken laws.read · scan
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, PoemsVol. 42
- p. 1306–1307Notary consoles himself that God is just and justice finally triumphs.read · scan
John Greenleaf Whittier, PoemsVol. 42
- p. 1359–1360Ireson fears the hand of God; the wife says God has touched him.read · scan
Charles Darwin, The Voyage of the BeagleVol. 29
- p. 502Thanks God he will never again visit a slave-country.read · scan
Alfred, Lord Tennyson, PoemsVol. 42
- p. 1008–1009Better to fall into the hands of God than of Spainread · scan
Robert Browning, A Blot in the 'ScutcheonVol. 18
- p. 392Mertoun appeals to Heaven as judge between him, Tresham and Mildred.read · scan
- p. 392Mertoun says a dying man's right to speak comes from the thought of speaking soon before God.read · scan
Robert Browning, PoemsVol. 42
- p. 1087'All is as God overrules'; God compensates and punishes.read · scan
- p. 1087Concludes 'God is just', accepting his lot.read · scan
John Ruskin, Sesame and LiliesVol. 28
- p. 110The God of heaven and earth loves modest, kind people and hates idle, proud, greedy, cruel ones.read · scan
3g.The wonder and awe of divine majesty
Confucius, The Sayings of ConfuciusVol. 44
- p. 26Heaven alone is great; Yao alone patterned on it.read · scan
The Book of JobVol. 44
- p. 83Job describes God's overwhelming power over mountains, earth, sun and stars, and his inscrutable, unanswerable dealings with man.read · scan
- p. 119Job fears God's rising up and calamity from God's majesty as reason for just conduct.read · scan
- p. 130–131God thunders marvelously, commands snow, rain and lightning; his majesty and works are beyond comprehension.read · scan
- p. 132–133Jehovah answers Job from the whirlwind, asserting his terrible majesty and power beyond finding out.read · scan
The Book of PsalmsVol. 44
- p. 160Jehovah portrayed as rock, fortress and deliverer, whose wrath shakes earth and heavens in a theophany.read · scan
- p. 169–170Jehovah is the King of glory, mighty in battle; God is goodness, mercy and guide.read · scan
- p. 237–238God is great and to be feared, humbles warriors and kings, and does wonders in sea and storm.read · scan
- p. 260–261God's works are great, thoughts deep, he reigns clothed with majesty on an everlasting throne over the sea.read · scan
- p. 288–289Jehovah is praised as exalted above nations and heavens, yet stooping to raise the poor and barren; nature trembles at his presence.read · scan
Saint Augustine, The Confessions of St. AugustineVol. 7
- p. 35God is Truth and Beauty of all things, above even the sun and moon and celestial works.read · scan
Dante Alighieri, PurgatoryVol. 20
- p. 149The angel is God's minister, whose splendor no eye can endure.read · scan
Dante Alighieri, ParadiseVol. 20
- p. 412Dante beholds the light that makes the Creator visible to creatures, and the celestial rose where God immediately rules and nature suspends her sway.read · scan
John Milton, Poems Written at Horton, 1632-1638Vol. 4
- p. 39–40Vision of the supreme throne of Him whose happy-making sight brings joy.read · scan
John Milton, Paradise LostVol. 4
- p. 220Messiah's power and glory manifest, moving hills and Heaven; the Father's kingdom acknowledged.read · scan
Blaise Pascal, Minor WorksVol. 48
- p. 385–386The soul contemplates God's grandeur and infinite majesty, adoring him as Creator and asking his mercy and guidance.read · scan
Edmund Burke, A Philosophical Inquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and BeautifulVol. 24
- p. 56Some deny that contemplating God's power involves any awe; Burke takes up this objection.read · scan
- p. 56Contemplating God's power, above his other attributes, strikes the imagination and leaves us annihilated and trembling despite mercy and justice.read · scan
- p. 56–59Burke argues the idea of the Deity is inseparably joined with awe and terror, illustrated by Scripture's depictions of God's presence.read · scan
- p. 67–68Milton depicts the Deity amid obscurity, the incomprehensible being surrounded by darkness and glory.read · scan
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Hermann and DorotheaVol. 19
- p. 374Their danger likened to Israel beholding God in the burning bush, cloud and fire.read · scan
Hans Christian Andersen, TalesVol. 17
- p. 356–357Lightning offers a glimpse into heaven that dazzles even men, implying a divine majesty beyond creatures' daring.read · scan
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