Quotes from George Herbert

Though God take the sunne out of the Heaven, yet we must have patience.

When God is made the master of a family, he disorders the disorderly.

When God will punish, hee will first take away the understanding.

Who likes not the drinke, God deprives him of bread.

I envy no man's nightingale or spring; Nor let them punish me with loss of rhyme, Who plainly say, My God, My King.

HELP = H(umor), E-go, edging God out, L-istening, P-urpose

God strikes with his finger, and not with all his arm.

When once thy foot enters the church, be bare. God is more there than thou: for thou art there Only by his permission. Then beware, That leads from earth to heaven.

No sooner is a Temple built to God but the Devill builds a Chappell hard by.

To a close shorn sheep, God gives wind by measure.

God sends cold according to clothes.

God sends a curst cow short horns.

Hee looseth nothing, that looseth not God.

Helpe thy selfe, and God will helpe thee.

God comes to see without a bell.

God complaines not, but doth what is fitting.

God is at the end, when we thinke he is furthest off it.

God strikes not with both hands, for to the sea he made heavens, and to rivers foords.

Good is god, but better carries it.

Good words are worth much, and cost little.

Good words quench more then a bucket of water.

Who letts his wife goe to every feast, and his horse drinke at every water, shall neither have good wife nor good horse.

Set good against evill. [Set good against evil.]

The good mother sayes not, Will you? but gives.