Wife.--Appointed by your
God!--Why, have you a
God in your country?
"No; for I saw
God's justice placed in the hands of Benedetto, and should have thought it sacrilege to oppose the designs of providence."
Let this then be one of our rules and principles concerning the
gods, to which our poets and reciters will be expected to conform-- that
God is not the author of all things, but of good only.
Could ye CREATE a
God?--Then, I pray you, be silent about all
Gods!
so my conscience hangs in me!" he groans, "straight upward, so it burns; but the chambers of my soul are all in crookedness!" Like one who after a night of drunken revelry hies to his bed, still reeling, but with conscience yet pricking him, as the plungings of the Roman race-horse but so much the more strike his steel tags into him; as one who in that miserable plight still turns and turns in giddy anguish, praying
God for annihilation until the fit be passed; and at last amid the whirl of woe he feels, a deep stupor steals over him, as over the man who bleeds to death, for conscience is the wound, and there's naught to staunch it; so, after sore wrestlings in his berth, Jonah's prodigy of ponderous misery drags him drowning down to sleep.
These have no house apart from Zeus, nor any dwelling nor path except that wherein
God leads them, but they dwell always with Zeus the loud-thunderer.
For the possession of a flesh-and-blood
god, he exchanged his own liberty.
He is kind, he is one of
God's chosen, he's a benefactor, he once gave me ten rubles, I remember.
That time when Gunto mistook a sting-bug for an edible beetle had made more impression upon Mumga than all the innumerable manifestations of the greatness of
God which she had witnessed, and which, of course, she had not understood.
EVE, easily may Faith admit, that all The good which we enjoy, from Heav'n descends But that from us ought should ascend to Heav'n So prevalent as to concerne the mind Of
God high blest, or to incline his will, Hard to belief may seem; yet this will Prayer, Or one short sigh of humane breath, up-borne Ev'n to the Seat of
God.
But when he comes, then I were base indeed, If I perform not all the
god declares.
I found it was not so easy to imprint right notions in his mind about the devil as it was about the being of a
God. Nature assisted all my arguments to evidence to him even the necessity of a great First Cause, an overruling, governing Power, a secret directing Providence, and of the equity and justice of paying homage to Him that made us, and the like; but there appeared nothing of this kind in the notion of an evil spirit, of his origin, his being, his nature, and above all, of his inclination to do evil, and to draw us in to do so too; and the poor creature puzzled me once in such a manner, by a question merely natural and innocent, that I scarce knew what to say to him.
