God, man, and Christianity...

God's mouth knows not to utter falsehood, but He will perform each word. - Aeschylus

Man proposes, but God disposes. - Thomas A. Kempis

For I would rather be a servant in the House of the Lord, than to sit in the seats of the mighty. - Alben W. Barkley

There is something in the nature of things, which the mind of man, which reason, which human power cannot effect, and certainly that which produces this - must be better than man. What can this be but God? - Cicero

Earth with her thousand voices, praises God. - Samuel Taylor Coleridge

God moves in a mysterious way His wonders to perform. - William Cowper

God tempers the cold to the shorn lamb. - Henri Estienne

I have lived, Sir, a long time, and the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth-that God governs in the affairs of men; and if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without His notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without His aid? - Benjamin Franklin

God never shuts one door but He opens another. - Irish Proverb

I live and love in God's peculiar light. - Michelangelo

Had I but served my God with half the zeal

I served my King; He would not in mine age

Have left me naked to mine enemies. - Shakespeare

The nature of God is a circle, of which the center is everywhere, and the circumference is nowhere. - Anonymous

If God didn't exist, man would have to invent Him. - Voltaire

It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that He need not exist in order to save us. - Peter de Vries

The distinction between Christianity and all other systems of religion consist largely in this: that in these others, men are found seeking after God, while Christianity is God seeking after men. - Thomas Arnold

There was never law or sect or opinion did so much magnify goodness, as the Christian religion doth. - Francis Bacon

Let any of those who renounce Christianity, write fairly down in a book all the absurdities they believe instead of it - and they will find it requires more faith to reject Christianity than to embrace it. - Charles Caleb Colton

This is all the Inheritance I can give to my dear family - The religion of Christ can give them one which will make them rich indeed. - Patrick Henry

Had the doctrines of Jesus been preached always as pure as they came from His lips, the whole civilized world would now have been Christians. - Thomas Jefferson

As to Jesus of Nazareth, my opinion of whom you particularly desire, I think the system of morals and His religion, as He left them to us, is the best the world ever saw, or is likely to see. - Benjamin Franklin