God quote

The real God taketh heed lest a sparrow fall; but the God created from human vanity sees no difference between an eagle and a sparrow. Oh, if men only knew ! 

Dracula by Bram Stoker 

God has not made this marvelous distillery of …

God has not made this marvelous distillery of thought, – the brain of man, – in order to make no use of it.The man of genius has need of no apparatus but his brain; through it his every thought must pass. Thought ascends, and buds from the brain, as the fruit from the root. Thought is the resultant of man; the root plunges into the earth, the brain into God, – that is to say, into the Infinite.

William Shakespeare by Victor Hugo 

Those whom God wishes to …

Those whom God wishes to destroy, he first makes mad.

War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy