Famous quotes containing the words fear and/or god:
“Because, according to the sage Solomon, wisdom does not enter into a soul that seeks after evil, and knowledge without conscience is the ruin of the soul, it behooves you to serve, love and fear God and to put all your thoughts and hope in him, and by faith founded in charity, be joined to him, such that you never be separated from him by sin.”
—François Rabelais (1494–1553)
“that Sunday in July
when we were young and did not look
into the abyss,
that God spot.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)