Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.
— William Cowper
The future is as bright as the promises of God.
— William Carey
That the Jews assumed a right exclusively to the benefits of God will be a lasting witness against them and the same will it be against Christians.
— William Blake
No enactment of man can be considered law unless it conforms to the law of God.
— William Blackstone
The tragedy of life and of the world is not that men do not know God; the tragedy is that, knowing Him, they still insist on going their own way.
— William Barclay
Therefore, the church is not absolutely necessary as an object of faith, not even for us today, for then Abraham and the other prophets would not have given assent to those things which were revealed to them from God without any intervening help of the church.
— William Ames
The ordinary ministry is that which receives all of its direction from the will of God revealed in the Scriptures and from those means which God has appointed in the church for its continual edification.
The efficiency of God may be understood as either creation or providence.
Participation in the blessings of the union with Christ comes when the faithful have all the things needed to live well and blessedly to God.
Hearing the word is the devout receiving of the will of God.
Everyone who understands the nature of God rightly necessarily knows that God is to be believed and hoped in, that he is to be loved and called upon, and to be heard in all things.
Whoever tramples on the plea for justice temperately made in the name of peace only outrages peace and kills something fine in the heart of man which God put there when we got our manhood.
— William Allen White
Because we don't see the evil destroyed now and thus experience the suffering that evil inevitably inflicts, we are tempted to doubt God's existence and goodness.
— William A. Dembski
It's a mood record. Like one night you're going to be down in the dumps depressed because you're thinking about your ex-boyfriend and the next moment you're gonna be like screw him you know? And the next one you're saying to yourself 'God I'm in love.'
— Willa Ford
Themes of redemption, temptation, and faith don't necessarily apply directly to religion. A lot of people find faith in their lives outside of God and still deal with notions of temptation and redemption that aren't religious.
— Will Poulter
How did sex come to be thought of as dirty in the first place? God must have been a Republican.
— Will Durst
My father was my god. His approval was so valuable to me.
— Wilbur Smith
Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will.
You know what the Englishman's idea of compromise is? He says, Some people say there is a God. Some people say there is no God. The truth probably lies somewhere between these two statements.
— William Butler Yeats
It is not because angels are holier than men or devils that makes them angels, but because they do not expect holiness from one another, but from God only.
When we believe that God is Father, we also believe that such a father's hand will never cause his child a needless tear. We may not understand life any better, but we will not resent life any longer.
God gave you a gift of 86,400 seconds today. Have you used one to say 'thank you?'
— William Arthur Ward
The will of God is single and totally one in Him.
The good pleasure of God is an act of the divine will freely and effectively determining all things.
The attributes of God tell us what He is and who He is.
Nothing exists from eternity but God, and God is not the matter or a part of any creature, but only the maker.
From faith, hope, and love, the virtues of religion referring to God, there arises a double act which bears on the spiritual communion exercised between God and us; the hearing of the word and prayer.
An idea in man is first impressed upon him and afterwards expressed in things, but in God it is only expressed, not impressed, because it does not come from anywhere else.
If our countries had war the one with the other, that was no cause that he should put us to death; with which they were out of heart that their cruel pretense failed them. For which God be forever-more praised.
— William Adams
Intelligent design is a modest position theologically and philosophically. It attributes the complexity and diversity of life to intelligence, but does not identify that intelligence with the God of any religious faith or philosophical system.
Sometimes I wonder why God ever trusts talent in the hands of women, they usually make such an infernal mess of it. I think He must do it as a sort of ghastly joke.
— Willa Cather
My problem is I'm not talented enough to do everything, but I want to do everything. I'm like, 'Oh God, I wish I could dance! Oh God, I wish I could rap!' I can't be a rapper, and I'm sure as hell not going to be able to dance for a living, but I want to do it all, you know?
Most intellectual people do not believe in God, but they fear him just the same.
— Wilhelm Reich
They say I'm worth either €200 million, €100 million, €50 million or €10 million, but that's something between God, the HMRC and myself.
Expect great things from God, attempt great things for God.
The years like great black oxen tread the world, and God, the herdsman goads them on behind, and I am broken by their passing feet.
Where mercy, love, and pity dwell, there God is dwelling too.
God himself took this human flesh upon him.
This subsistence, or manner of being of God is his one essence so far as it has personal properties.
The will of God is eternal because He does not begin to will what He did not will before, nor cease to will what He willed before.
The first act of religion, therefore, concerns those things which are communicated to us from God. The other concerns those things which we yield to God.
Sanctification is the real change in man from the sordidness of sin to the purity of God's image.
In the exercise of God's efficiency, the decree of God comes first. This manner of working is the most perfect of all and notably agrees with the divine nature.
Faith is the virtue by which, clinging-to the faithfulness of God, we lean upon him, so that we may obtain what he gives to us.
Although the whole man partakes of this grace, it is first and most appropriately in the soul and later progresses to the body, inasmuch as the body of the man is capable of the same obedience to the will of God as the soul.
In God becoming human in Jesus Christ, God has established solidarity with the human condition.
I'm trying to take drag back to its down-and-dirty roots where people get offended at first, and then they're like, 'Oh my God, this crazy queen.'
— Willam Belli
Throughout life people will make you mad, disrespect you and treat you bad. Let God deal with the things they do, cause hate in your heart will consume you too.
— Will Smith
It's God's plan, and I'm really excited to be a part of this new opportunity with West Virginia.
— Will Grier
I have done everything I have ever wanted to do. I have swum with tiger sharks, been charged by lions and elephants. I have been shot three times, chased by crocodiles and, God be praised, I've made enough money that I can continue to do all the things I want to for as long as I am able.
