"God-fearing" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... she sing? I knew well, at that moment, the assurance my heart wanted: we are a God-fearing people, and I was a child of that coast; and I had then first come in from a stormy ...
— Doctor Luke of the Labrador • Norman Duncan
... and purpose at the time is afforded by a conference between himself and Senator Wade of Ohio. Mr. Wade was widely known as among the radical and progressive members of the Republican party. His immediate constituents of the Western Reserve were a just and God-fearing people, amply endowed with both moral and physical courage; but they were not men of blood, and they were not in sympathy with the apparent purposes of the President. It is not improbable that Mr. Wade's views were somewhat in ...
— Twenty Years of Congress, Volume 2 (of 2) • James Gillespie Blaine
... uncouth pioneer conditions. But, in the main, we may believe that the great majority of citizens of New England, the substantial traders and merchants of the middle colonies, and the planters of the South, were law-abiding, God-fearing people who believed in the sanctity of their homes and cherished them. We shall see that these homes were ...
— Woman's Life in Colonial Days • Carl Holliday
... her husband's implied belief that she was influenced by the minister, so there was double resolution, as well as some offence in her reply, that she knew her duty as a wife too well to consent to such a thing without him. As to his being careless, he was a true and God-fearing man, and Mr. Heatherthwayte should know better than to speak thus of him to ...
— Unknown to History - A Story of the Captivity of Mary of Scotland • Charlotte M. Yonge
... has scope to become a good landlord, a kind master, a God-fearing head of his household," said the mother, with a ...
— Tom Tufton's Travels • Evelyn Everett-Green
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