Robert Browning: Quotes about God

Robert Browning was English poet and playwright of the Victorian Era. Explore interesting quotes on god.
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“God is the perfect poet,
Who in his person acts his own creations.”

Robert Browning Paracelsus

Part 2.
Paracelsus (1835)

“Fool! All that is, at all,
Lasts ever, past recall;
Earth changes, but thy soul and God stand sure:
What entered into thee,
That was, is, and shall be:
Time's wheel runs back or stops: Potter and clay endure.”

Robert Browning Rabbi ben Ezra

Source: Dramatis Personae (1864), Rabbi Ben Ezra, Line 157.

“God's justice, tardy though it prove perchance,
Rests never on the track until it reach”

Robert Browning

Cenciaja.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“All service ranks the same with God,—
With God, whose puppets, best and worst,
Are we: there is no last nor first.”

Robert Browning Pippa Passes

Part IV.
Pippa Passes (1841)

“It's wiser being good than bad;
It's safer being meek than fierce;
It's fitter being sane than mad.
My own hope is, a sun will pierce
The thickest cloud earth ever stretched;
That after Last returns the First,
Though a wide compass round be fetched;
That what began best can't end worst,
Nor what God blessed once prove accurst.”

Robert Browning

Apparent Failure, vii.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“That low man seeks a little thing to do,
Sees it and does it.
This high man, with a great thing to pursue,
Dies ere he knows it.
That low man goes on adding one to one,—
His hundred's soon hit;
This high man, aiming at a million,
Misses an unit.
That has the world here—should he need the next,
Let the world mind him!
This throws himself on God, and unperplexed
Seeking shall find him.”

Robert Browning Men and Women

"A Grammarian's Funeral", line 115.
Men and Women (1855)

“I do what many dream of, all their lives,
— Dream? strive to do, and agonize to do,
And fail in doing. I could count twenty such
On twice your fingers, and not leave this town,
Who strive — you don't know how the others strive
To paint a little thing like that you smeared
Carelessly passing with your robes afloat —
Yet do much less, so much less, Someone says,
(I know his name, no matter) — so much less!
Well, less is more, Lucrezia: I am judged.
There burns a truer light of God in them,
In their vexed beating stuffed and stopped-up brain,
Heart, or whate'er else, than goes on to prompt
This low-pulsed forthright craftsman's hand of mine.”

Robert Browning Men and Women

"Andrea del Sarto", line 70
"Less is more" is often misattributed to architects Buckminster Fuller or Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. It is something of a motto for minimalist philosophy. It was used in 1774 by Christoph Martin Wieland.
Men and Women (1855)