Herman Melville Quotes About God

Quotes about: God

• In our own hearts, we mold the whole world's hereafters; and in our own hearts we fashion our own gods.

  Herman Melville

  God, Fashion, Heart

  Herman Melville (1850). “White-jacket; Or, The World in the Man-of-war”, p.374

• Let me look into a human eye; it is better than to gaze into sea or sky; better than to gaze upon God.

  Herman Melville

  God, Eye, Sea

  1851 Captain Ahab. Moby Dick, ch.132.

• I feel that the Godhead is broken up like the bread at the Supper, and that we are the pieces. Hence this infinite fraternity of feeling.

  Herman Melville

  God, Broken, Feelings

  Herman Melville, Lynn Horth (1993). “Correspondence”, p.212, Northwestern University Press

• The great God absolute! The centre and circumference of all democracy! His omnipresence, our divine equality!

  Herman Melville

  God, Democracy, Divine

  Herman Melville, Harrison Hayford, Walter E. Bezanson (1991). “Clarel: A Poem and Pilgrimage in the Holy Land”, p.606, Northwestern University Press

• Delight,--top-gallant delight is to him, who acknowledges no law or lord, but the Lord his God, and is only a patriot to heaven.

  Herman Melville

  God, Law, Joy

  'Moby Dick' (1851) ch. 1

• All things that God would have us do are hard for us to do--remember that--and hence, he oftener commands us than endeavours to persuade.

  Herman Melville

  God, Remember, Endeavour

  Herman Melville (1952). “Moby Dick: Or, The Whale”

• Where is there such an one who has not a thousand times been struck with a sort of infidel idea, that whatever other worlds God may be Lord of, he is not the Lord of this; for else this world would seem to give the lie to Him; so utterly repugnant seem its ways to the instinctively known ways of Heaven.

  Herman Melville

  God, Lying, Ideas

  Herman Melville (2016). “Pierre; or The Ambiguities”, p.272, Herman Melville

• The world is forever babbling of originality; but there never yet was an original man, in the sense intended by the world; the first man himself--who according to the Rabbins was also the first author--not being an original; the only original author being God.

  Herman Melville

  God, Men, Forever

  Herman Melville (1971). “Pierre, Or The Ambiguities: Volume Seven, Scholarly Edition”, p.259, Northwestern University Press

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