Famous quotes containing the words fear god, fear and/or god:
“Fear God, and offend not the Prince nor his laws,
And keep thyself out of the magistrate’s claws.”
—Thomas Tusser (c. 1520–1580)
“Walk with the dead
For fear of death.”
—Philip Larkin (1922–1986)
“If we are related, we shall meet. It was a tradition of the ancient world, that no metamorphosis could hide a god from a god; and there is a Greek verse which runs, “The Gods are to each other not unknown.” Friends also follow the laws of divine necessity; they gravitate to each other, and cannot otherwise.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)