God Appointed

Famous quotes containing the words god and/or appointed:

    If there must be a god in the house, let him be one
    That will not hear us when we speak: a coolness,
    A vermilioned nothingness, any stick of the mass
    Of which we are too distantly a part.
    Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)

    Have We not made the earth as a cradle and the mountains as pegs? And We created you in pairs, and We appointed your sleep for a rest; and We appointed night for a garment, and We appointed day for a livelihood. And We have built above you seven strong ones, and We appointed a blazing lamp and have sent down out of the rain-clouds water cascading that We may bring forth thereby grain and plants, and gardens luxuriant.
    —Qur’An. “The Tiding,” 78:6-16, trans. by Arthur J. Arberry (1955)