When I behold a fashionable table set out in all its magnificence, I fancy that I see gouts and dropsies, fevers and lethargies, with other innumerable distempers lying in ambuscade among the dishes.  Nature delights in the most plain and simple diet.  Every animal but man keeps to one dish.  Herbs are the food of this species, fish of that, and flesh of a third.  Man falls upon everything that comes in his way; not the smallest fruit or excrescence of the earth, scarce a berry or a mushroom can escape him.—­Addison.

God.—­In all thy actions think God sees thee; and in all His actions labor to see Him; that will make thee fear Him; this will move thee to love Him; the fear of God is the beginning of knowledge, and the knowledge of God is the perfection of love.—­Quarles.

God should be the object of all our desires, the end of all our actions, the principle of all our affections, and the governing power of our whole souls.—­Massillon.

God governs the world, and we have only to do our duty wisely, and leave the issue to Him.—­John Jay.

They that deny a God destroy man’s nobility; for certainly man is like the beasts in his body; and if he is not like God in his spirit, he is an ignoble creature.—­Bacon.

God is all love; it is He who made everything, and He loves everything that He has made.—­Henry Brooke.

How calmly may we commit ourselves to the hands of Him who bears up the world,—­of Him who has created, and who provides for the joys even of insects, as carefully as if He were their father.—­Richter.

I fear God, and next to God, I chiefly fear him who fears Him not.  —­Saadi.

A foe to God was never true friend to man.—­Young.

God moves in a mysterious way
His wonders to perform;
He plants His footsteps in the sea,
And rides upon the storm. 
—­Cowper.

There never was a man of solid understanding, whose apprehensions are sober, and by a pensive inspection advised, but that he hath found by an irresistible necessity one true God and everlasting being.—­Sir Walter Raleigh.

Who guides below, and rules above,
The great disposer, and the mighty king;
Than He none greater, next Him none,
That can be, is, or was. 

          
                          —­Horace.

Thou art, O God, the life and light
Of all this wondrous world we see;
Its glow by day, its smile by night,
Are but reflections caught from Thee! 
Where’er we turn thy glories shine,
And all things fair and bright are thine! 
—­Moore.

From God derived, to God by nature join’d. 
We act the dictates of His mighty mind: 
And though the priests are mute and temples still,
God never wants a voice to speak His will. 

                                    —­Rowe.