God Preserve Thy

Famous quotes containing the words god, preserve and/or thy:

    “I am not the measure of creation.
    This is beyond me, this fish.
    His God stands outside my God.”
    —D.H. (David Herbert)

    “But the impressions which the morning makes vanish with its dews, and not even the most “persevering mortal” can preserve the memory of its freshness to midday.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “O little town of Bethlehem,
    How still we see thee lie!
    Above thy deep and dreamless sleep
    The silent stars go by;
    Yet in thy dark streets shineth
    The Everlasting Light;
    The hopes and fears of all the years
    Are met in thee tonight.”
    —Phillips Brooks (1835–1893)