Alexander Pope: Quotes about God

Alexander Pope was eighteenth century English poet. Explore interesting quotes on god.
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“Nature and Nature's laws lay hid in night:
God said, "Let Newton be!"”

Alexander Pope

and all was light.
Epitaph intended for Sir Isaac Newton.

God , Law , Nature , Light

“An honest man's the noblest work of God”

Alexander Pope An Essay on Man

Source: An Essay on Man

God

“I think it was a generous thought, and one that fow'd from an exalted mind, that it was not improbable but God might be delighted with the various methods of worshipping him, which divided the whole world.”

Alexander Pope

Letter, February 10, 1715, 16.

God , World , Thinking

“I am growing fit, I hope, for a better world, of which light of the sun is but a shadow: for I doubt not but God's works here, are what comes nearest to his works there; and that a true relish of the beauties of nature is the most easy preparation and gentlest transition to an enjoyment of those of heaven; as on the contrary a true town life of hurry, confusion, noise, slander, and dissension, is a fort of apprenticeship to hell and its furies… The separation of my soul and body is what I could think of with less pain; for I sm very sure he that made it will take care of it, and in whatever state he pleases it shall be, that state must be right; but I cannot think without tears of beingseparated from my friends, when their condition is so douubtful, that they may want even such assistance as mine”

Alexander Pope

In a 1715 letter (LXXVII), as found in Letters of Mr. Alexander Pope: And Several of His Friends. 1737.

Life , God , Pain , World

“Ambition first sprung from your blest abodes;
The glorious fault of Angels and of Gods.”

Alexander Pope

Source: The Works of Mr. Alexander Pope (1717), Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady, Line 13.

God , Angels

“When men grow virtuous in their old age, they only make a sacrifice to God of the devil's leavings.”

Alexander Pope

Thoughts on Various Subjects (1727)

Men , God , Age

“Ye Gods! annihilate but space and time,
And make two lovers happy.”

Alexander Pope

Martinus Scriblerus on the Art of Sinking in Poetry, Chap. xi, reported in William Warburton, The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq (1751) p. 196.

God , Lovers , Time , Happiness

“Methinks God has punish'd the Avaritious as he often punishes sinners, in their own way, in the ver sin itself: the thrist of gain was their crime, that thrist continued became their punishment and ruin. As for the few who have the good fortune to remain with half of what they imagined they had (among whom is your humble servantl, I would have them sensible of their felicity, and convinced of the truth of old Hesiod's maxim, who, after half his estate was swallowed by the Directors of those days, resolv'd, that half to be more than the whole.”

Alexander Pope

In his letter to Atterbury Bishop of Rochester. Sept. 23. 1720.

God , Truth , Way , Imagination

“Good God! how often are we to die before we go quite off this stage? in every friend we lose a part of ourselves, and the best part.”

Alexander Pope

Letter, written in collaboration with Dr John Arbuthnot, to Jonathan Swift (December 5, 1732) upon the death of John Gay.

God , Parting

“A god without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but Fate and Nature.”

Alexander Pope

Isaac Newton: Principia Mathematica (1687); Rules of Reasoning in Philosophy, Rule IV.
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God , Fate , Nature