William Wordsworth Quotes

It must never be forgotten that Almighty God rules this world. He is not an absentee God.

There cannot be a God because if there were one, I could not believe that I was not He.

I simply haven't the nerve to imagine a being, a force, a cause which keeps the planets revolving in their orbits and then suddenly stops in order to give me a bicycle with three speeds.

Call it Nature, Fate, Fortune; all these are names of the one and selfsame God.

Nothing exists from eternity but God, and God is not the matter or a part of any creature, but only the maker.

Man is supposed to be the maker of his destiny. It is only partly true. He can make his destiny, only in so far as he is allowed by the Great Power.

I've said all along that God is in control.

God will use whatever he wants to display his glory. Heavens and stars. History and nations. People and problems.

Whatsoever is, is in God, and without God nothing can be, or be conceived.

To posit the existence of a Creator requires only reason. To posit the existence of a good God requires faith.

Men are not flattered by being shown that there is a difference of purpose between the Almighty and them.

it was God's act and not mine.

I think that there is a Providence that raises up great leaders at the right time.

I serve a major God who definitely has the last say on my life.

Hallowed be thy name, oh Lord -- and shotgun do your stuff

We are all but instruments of God.

God has His own way of choosing His instruments.

The way of God is complex, he is hard for us to predict. He moves the pieces and they come somehow into a kind of order.

But if we admit God, must we admit Miracle? Indeed, indeed, you have no security against it. That is the bargain. Theology says to you in effect, 'Admit God and with Him the risk of a few miracles, and I in return will ratify your faith in uniformity as regards the overwhelming majority of events.

Can it then be doubted, but that God, who is infinitely fine Spirit, and withal intelligent, can make and change all species and kind of body as he pleaseth? But I dare not say, that this is the way by which God Almighty worketh, because it is past my apprehension: yet it serves very well to demonstrate, that the omnipotence of God implieth no contradiction.

It is God that accomplishes all term to hopes, God, who overtakes the flying eagle, outpasses the dolphin in the sea; who bends under his strength the man with thoughts too high.

It is my unmistakable belief that not a blade of grass moves but by the divine will.

God made all the animals in a single day; he could have swept them all away in the flood and re-created them in one day when they were again needed. Therefore it was an odd idea to save specimens of them for eleven months in the ark, whilst aware that eight persons could not feed or water them by any human possibility. If they were to be preserved by miracle, the ark was not necessary - to let them swim would have answered the purpose and been more indubitably miraculous.

Besides that, I believe one thing: there is a Lord God! And this Lord God creates the peoples.