Perfectly Loving God

Famous quotes containing the words perfectly, loving and/or god:

    There is something singularly grand and impressive in the sound of a tree falling in a perfectly calm night like this, as if the agencies which overthrow it did not need to be excited, but worked with a subtle, deliberate, and conscious force, like a boa-constrictor, and more effectively then than even in a windy day.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    Here’s much to do with hate, but more with love.
    Why then, O brawling love, O loving hate,
    O anything of nothing first create,
    O heavy lightness, serious vanity,
    Misshapen chaos of well-seeming forms.
    William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    Flowers ... that are so pathetic in their beauty, frail as the clouds, and in their colouring as gorgeous as the heavens, had through thousands of years been the heritage of children—honoured as the jewellery of God only by them—when suddenly the voice of Christianity, counter-signing the voice of infancy, raised them to a grandeur transcending the Hebrew throne, although founded by God himself, and pronounced Solomon in all his glory not to be arrayed like one of these.
    Thomas De Quincey (1785–1859)