The will of the world is never the will of God.

The infinite God can not by us, in the present limitation of our faculties, be comprehended or conceived.

'Tis pleasant, through the loopholes of retreat, / To peep at such a world; to see the stir / Of the great Babel, and not feel the crowd.

God's role in superintending our world and our lives is neither absentee landlord nor micromanager.

I don’t think there’s any likelihood in the world that he will reject the list,

If God spare my life, ere many years I will cause a boy who drives the plough to know more of the scriptures than you do