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| Against God’s wrath no castle is thunder proof. | 1 |
| All things proclaim the existence of a God. Napoleon. | 2 |
| Better God than gold. | 3 |
| Every little blade of grass declareth the presence of God. Latin. | 4 |
| Every one in his own house and God in all men’s. Spanish. | 5 |
| Every one is as God made him and very often worse. Don Quixote. | 6 |
| Everything has an end excepting God. Dutch. | 7 |
| Father and mother are kind, but God is kinder. Danish. | 8 |
| Get thy spindle and thy distaff ready and God will send the flax. | 9 |
| God alone understands fools. French. | 10 |
| God arms the harmless. | 11 |
| God blesses the seeking, not the finding. German. | 12 |
| God comes at last when we think he is farthest off. Danish. | 13 |
| God comes with leaden feet but strikes with iron hand. | 14 |
| God deals his wrath by weight but without weight his mercy. | 15 |
| God defend me from the still water, and I’ll keep myself from the rough. | 16 |
| God defend me from the devil, the eye of a harlot and the turn of a die. Spanish. | 17 |
| God delays but does not forget. Modern Greek. | 18 |
| God deliver me from a man of one book. | 19 |
| God deprives him of his bread who likes not his drink. | 20 |
| God does not pay weekly but he pays at the end. Dutch. | 21 |
| God does not smite with both hands. Spanish. | 22 |
| God extends from eternity to eternity. Aristotle. | 23 |
| God gives a cursed cow short horns. Italian. | 24 |
| God gives almonds to some who have no teeth. Spanish. | 25 |
| God gives bread but we must creep along ourselves also. Modern Greek. | 26 |
| God gives every bird its food but does not thrust it into its nest. Danish. | 27 |
| God gives little folks small gifts. Danish. | 28 |
| God gives strength to bear a great deal if we only strive ourselves to endure. Hans Andersen. | 29 |
| God gives the milk but not the pail. German. | 30 |
| God gives the wine but not the bottle. German. | 31 |
| God gives wings to the ant that she may perish the sooner. Spanish. | 32 |
| God grant me to contend with those who understand me. | 33 |
| God grant you fortune, my son, for knowledge avails you little. Spanish. | 34 |
| God has given nuts to some that have no teeth. Portuguese. | 35 |
| God has given us the earth, but left the sea to the infidels. Turkish. | 36 |
| God has many names though he is only one being. Aristotle. | 37 |
| God helps the sailor but he must row. German. | 38 |
| God helps those who help themselves. | 39 |
| God helping, nothing need be feared. | 40 |
| God helps the early riser. Spanish. | 41 |
| God helps the strongest. German, Dutch. | 42 |
| God helps three sorts of people: fools, children, and drunkards. French. | 43 |
| God is always at leisure to do good to those that ask it. | 44 |
| God is everywhere except where he has his delegate. (Ironical.). Italian. | 45 |
| God is not hasty but he forgets nothing. German. | 46 |
| God is patient because eternal. St. Augustine. | 47 |
| God keeps the nobleman no more than the peasant. German. | 48 |
| God is the enemy of the proud. Turkish. | 49 |
| God is where he was. | 50 |
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| God keep you from—“It is too late.” Spanish. | 51 |
| God knows who are the best pilgrims. | 52 |
| God looks to pure hands, not full ones. Publius Syrus. | 53 |
| God loves good accounts. | 54 |
| God made the country, man made the town. Byron. | 55 |
| God made us and we wonder at it. Spanish. | 56 |
| God never sends mouths but he sends meat. | 57 |
| God, our parents and our master can never be requited. | 58 |
| God permits nothing to happen which is not the best for us. Hans Andersen. | 59 |
| God permits the wicked but not forever. | 60 |
| God postpones, he does not overlook. Turkish. | 61 |
| God puts a good root in the little pig’s way. French. | 62 |
| God reaches us good things by our own hands. | 63 |
| God save me from one who does not drink. Italian. | 64 |
| God save me from the man of one occupation. Italian. | 65 |
| God save me from those I confide in. French. | 66 |
| God save me from a bad neighbor and from a beginner on the fiddle. Italian. | 67 |
| God saves the moon from the wolves. French. | 68 |
| God sells knowledge for labor, honor for risk. Dutch. | 69 |
| God send me a friend that may tell me my faults, if not an enemy and to be sure he will. | 70 |
| God send you readier meat than running hares. | 71 |
| God sends clothes after clothes. | 72 |
| God sends corn and the devil mars the sack. | 73 |
| God sends enough to all. Latin. | 74 |
| God’s mills turn slow, but they grind woe. Oriental. | 75 |
| God sends meat and the devil sends cooks. | 76 |
| God sends no greater evil than many children and little bread. German. | 77 |
| God sends nothing but what can be borne. Italian. | 78 |
| God sent him meat but the devil cooked it. Dutch. | 79 |
| God stands in need of nothing; he is forever above and beyond want. Aristotle. | 80 |
| God stays long but strikes at last. | 81 |
| God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb. Sterne, French. | 82 |
| God made the world so wisely, so wisely governs it. | 83 |
| God’s help is nearer than the fair even. | 84 |
| God who sends the wounds, sends the cure. Don Quixote. | 85 |
| God will provide, but a bundle of straw will not be amiss. Spanish. | 86 |
| God’s mill goes slowly, but it grinds well. German. | 87 |
| God’s providence is the sweet and best inheritance. | 88 |
| God’s work is soon done. French. | 89 |
| Good is God and long is eternity. | 90 |
| Hae God hae a’. | 91 |
| He loseth nothing that keeps God for his friend. | 92 |
| If God be with us everything that is impossible becomes possible. | 93 |
| If God be with us who shall stand against us. Latin. | 94 |
| If God bids thee draw, he will find thee a rope, and if he bid thee ride, he will find thee a horse. Danish. | 95 |
| If God give not bushelfuls, he gives spoonfuls. Danish. | 96 |
| If God proposes the destruction of an ant he gives her wings. Arabian. | 97 |
| If things go well it is God’s will, and if they don’t go well it is his will also. Bombay the African speaking to Captain Speke. | 98 |
| It is better to have to do with God than with his saints. French. | 99 |
| It is impossible to do anything against the will of God. Hannibal. | 100 |
Laugh where we must, be candid where we can,
But vindicate the ways of God to man. Pope. | 101 |
| Man doth what he can and God what he will. | 102 |
| No threshold without God. Russian. | 103 |
| Not God above gets all men’s love. | 104 |
| Preserve thyself from the occasion and God will preserve thee from the sin. | 105 |
| That man is to be feared who fears not God. Turkish. | 106 |
| The most High God sees and forbears; my neighbor knows nothing and yet is always finding fault. | 107 |
| To God’s counsel chamber there is no key. Danish. | 108 |
| Unless God be with us all labor is in vain. Latin. | 109 |
| Whom God will help none can hinder. | 110 |
| What God will, no frost can kill. | 111 |
| What we have in us of the image of God, is the love of truth and justice. Demosthenes. | 112 |
| Whatever happens, happens by the will of God. Last Knight of Delphi. | 113 |
| When God gives light he gives it for all. Spanish. | 114 |
| When God means to punish a nation he deprives its rulers of wisdom. German, Dutch. | 115 |
| When God pleases it rains in fair weather. Spanish. | 116 |
| When God pleases it rains with every wind. Spanish, Dutch. | 117 |
| When God says to-day the devil says to-morrow. German. | 118 |
| When God sends flour the devil carries off the sack. French. | 119 |
| When God sends the dawn he sends it for all. Don Quixote. | 120 |
| When God will not the saints cannot. Italian, Spanish, Dutch. | 121 |
| When it is God’s will to plague a man a mouse can bite him to death. Dutch. | 122 |
| When it pleaseth not God, the saint can do little. | 123 |
| When the anguish is greatest, God’s help is highest. German. | 124 |
| Where God bestows an office he provides brains to fill it. German. | 125 |
| Where God builds a church, the devil builds a chapel. German. | 126 |
| Who hath God hath all, who hath him not hath less than nothing. | 127 |
| Whom God loves, his house is savory to him. | 128 |
| You cannot serve God and mammon. New Testament. | 129 |
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