I do not believe that God has created us under this dire necessity to toil, like beasts, to sustain life. I believe it is his will that we should hold absolute mastery over time, so as to devote it mainly to intellectual and moral improvement, domestic enjoyment, and social intercourse.
— William Lloyd Garrison
All people desire what they believe will make them happy. If a person is not full of desire for God, we can only conclude that he is engaged with another happiness.
— William Law
Nothing hath separated us from God but our own will, or rather our own will is our separation from God.
Write because you love the work, not because of what might come from it. The journey is the purpose. Very Zen-like, I know, but honest to God it's the truth. And I have never had to deal with writer's block. Knock on wood.
— William Kent Krueger
The god whom science recognizes must be a God of universal laws exclusively, a God who does a wholesale, not a retail business. He cannot accommodate his processes to the convenience of individuals.
— William James
Man, as we know him, is a poor creature; he is halfway between an ape and a god and he is travelling in the right direction.
— William Inge
I love judges, and I love courts. They are my ideals, that typify on earth what we shall meet hereafter in heaven under a just God.
— William Howard Taft
Although the ACLU would argue that it is unconstitutional for me, as a public official, to do this in a government building, let alone at a football game, I will end with my prayer for the next administration: Please God, no more Souters.
— William H. Pryor
God hath made it a debt which one saint owes to another to carry their names to a throne of grace.
— William Gurnall
The Christian must trust in a withdrawing God.
We are not cured of alcoholism. What we have is a daily reprieve contingent on the maintenance of our spiritual condition. Every day is a day when we must carry the vision of God's will into all of our daily activities.
— William Griffith Wilson
God is a being who is himself the cause of his own existence. His prerogative is to perceive before there was anything to be perceived. He is the creator of the universe; He operated upon nothing and turned it into something.
— William Godwin
If there is no God, there is no hope.
— William G. Boykin
The existence of a single atheist does not disprove the existence of God.
— William F. DeVault
The mind, in proportion as it is cut off from free communication with nature, with revelation, with God, with itself, loses its life, just as the body droops when debarred from the air and the cheering light from heaven.
— William Ellery Channing
All love is lost but upon God alone.
— William Dunbar
God moves in a mysterious way, His wonders to perform. He plants his footsteps in the sea, and rides upon the storm.
— William Cowper
The existing governments of the world are the consequence of disobedience to the commands of God. But Christ came to bring men back to obedience by a new and living way.
This, and this alone, is Christianity, a universal holiness in every part of life, a heavenly wisdom in all our actions, not conforming to the spirit and temper of the world but turning all worldly enjoyments into means of piety and devotion to God.
Love and pity and wish well to every soul in the world; dwell in love, and then you dwell in God.
The parents have a right to say that no teacher paid by their money shall rob their children of faith in God and send them back to their homes skeptical, or infidels, or agnostics, or atheists.
— William Jennings Bryan
Part of our essential humanity is paying respect to what God gave us and what will be here a long time after we're gone.
— William J. Clinton
Many people believe that they are attracted by God, or by Nature, when they are only repelled by man.
The infinite God can not by us, in the present limitation of our faculties, be comprehended or conceived.
— William Hamilton
The march to our duty here, not merely to ourselves, but to our surroundings, must proceed. God wills it.
— William H. O'Connell
All the plots of hell and commotions on earth have not so much as shaken God's hand to spoil one letter or line he has been drawing.
God's wounds cure, sin's kisses kill.
With respect to my religious sentiments, I have the firmest assurance and tranquillity. I have faithfully endeavoured to improve the faculties and opportunities God has given me, and I am perfectly easy about the consequences.
I believe in this being, not because I have any proper or direct knowledge of His existence, but I am at a loss to account for the existence and arrangement of the visible universe, and, being left in the wide sea of conjecture without a clue from analogy or experience, I find the conjecture of a God easy, obvious, and irresistible.
It's not like I wake up and think, 'Oh God, I have to go to the gym.' It's just pretty much a given. I do cardio, light weights, and a good stretch, and I always try to get to the pool for at least a 15-minute swim.
— William Fichtner
God is another name for human intelligence raised above all error and imperfection, and extended to all possible truth.
Pop taught me respect for my fellow man and reverence for my God. He taught me the importance of family and religion.
— William E. Simon
To God be humble, to thy friend be kind, and with thy neighbors gladly lend and borrow; His chance tonight, it maybe thine tomorrow.
God made the country, and man made the town.
I believe God rules all by his divine providence and that the stars by his permission are instruments.
— William Lilly
God seeth different abilities and frailties of men, which may move His goodness to be merciful to their different improvements in virtue.
If you have not chosen the Kingdom of God first, it will in the end make no difference what you have chosen instead.
If the grace of God miraculously operates, it probably operates through the subliminal door.
Bereavement is the sharpest challenge to our trust in God; if faith can overcome this, there is no mountain which it cannot remove.
It's been a long comeback. Things were pretty dark for me. But I have a faith now, and it saves my day. I was angry with God for a long time because I was unhappy with me. I hadn't learned to make the distinction between God and my parents. But there's a peace now. In the end, I got sick and tired of being sick and tired.
— William Hurt
The will of the world is never the will of God.
Yeah, I made it. It sneaks up on you. You're some schmuck and you wake up one day and you go, Good God, I'm the cheese.
— William H. Macy
We have peace with God as soon as we believe, but not always with ourselves. The pardon may be past the prince's hand and seal, and yet not put into the prisoner's hand.
And while God had work for Paul, he found him friends both in court and prison. Let persecutors send saints to prison, God can provide a keeper for their turn.
Religion is among the most beautiful and most natural of all things - that religion which 'sees God in clouds and hears Him in the wind,' which endows every object of sense with a living soul, which finds in the system of nature whatever is holy, mysterious and venerable, and inspires the bosom with sentiments of awe and veneration.
God himself has no right to be a tyrant.
I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
— William Falconer
God be thanked for books; they are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages.
Remember the rights of the savage, as we call him. Remember that the happiness of his humble home, remember that the sanctity of life in the hill villages of Afghanistan, among the winter snows, is as inviolable in the eye of Almighty God, as can be your own.
— William E. Gladstone
The groves were God's first temples.
— William Cullen Bryant
