John Greenleaf Whittier: Quotes about God

John Greenleaf Whittier was American Quaker poet and advocate of the abolition of slavery. Explore interesting quotes on god.

John Greenleaf Whittier: 94 quotes2 likes

“God's ways seem dark, but, soon or late,
They touch the shining hills of day;
The evil cannot brook delay,
The good can well afford to wait.”

John Greenleaf Whittier

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 282

“As yonder tower outstretches to the earth
The dark triangle of its shade alone
When the clear day is shining on its top;
So, darkness in the pathway of man's life
Is but the shadow of God's providence,
By the great Sun of wisdom cast thereon;
And what is dark below is light in heaven.”

John Greenleaf Whittier

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 282

“O, brother man! fold to thy heart thy brother;
where pity dwells, the peace of God is there.”

John Greenleaf Whittier Worship

Worship, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“God blesses still the generous thought,
And still the fitting word He speeds,
And Truth, at His requiring taught,
He quickens into deeds.”

John Greenleaf Whittier

Channing, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“God is and all is well.”

John Greenleaf Whittier

My Birthday', reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). Compare Browning, Pippa Passes.