Famous quotes containing the words lord thy god, lord, thy and/or god:
“For the Lord thy God is a jealous God among you.”
—Bible: Hebrew Deuteronomy, 6:15.
The words are also found in Exodus 20:5, referring to the second commandment: “Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image ... for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me.”
“Most Gracious Queen, we thee implore
To go away and sin no more,
But if that effort be too great,
To go away at any rate.”
—Anonymous. “On Queen Caroline,” in Diary and Correspondence of Lord Colchester (1861)
“Cibber! write all thy verses upon glasses,
The only way to save ‘em from our arses.”
—Alexander Pope (1688–1744)
“Too slow, the wagons of years,
The oxen of days—too glum.
Our god is the god of speed,
Our heart—our battle-drum.”
—Vladimir Mayakovsky (1893–1930)