— Irish God never pays his debts with money.
— English God needs no help when he cuts wood.
— African (Ovambo) God moves slowly yet his grace comes.
— Irish God makes no wreck without cause.
— Swedish ❖ God makes and apparel shapes,
but it is money that finishes the man.
— English God loves the poor and helps the rich.
— Yiddish God loves not a lying tongue.
— Irish God love the Trinity.
— Russian God knows whose oil burns in the lamp.
— Serbo-Croatian ❖ God knows who is a good pilgrim.
— French God knows well which are the best pilgrims.
— English God is the real physician.
— African (Swahili) God is the blacksmith who does not forge for only one.
— African (Bemba) God is the best of witnesses.
— Lebanese ❖ God is present not in strength, but in truth.
— Russian God is pleased with good people.
— Indian (Kashmiri) God is not yet going on crutches.
— Finnish God is not rich; all He does is take
from one and give to the other.
— Yiddish God is not as severe as he is said to be.
— Irish ❖ God is no man's debtor.
— Serbo-Croatian God is in heaven and grass is on the earth.
— Icelandic God is great, but the devil is clever too.
— Rumanian God is everywhere, except where he has his delegate.
— German God is at the end when we think he is farthest off it.
— English ❖❖❖