— Mexican God stays long but strikes at last.
— English God strikes not with both hands.
— English God takes care of an oppressed man.
— Filipino God takes care of a blind cow.
— Indian (Bihar) ❖ God will provide, but a good bundle of straw will not be amiss.
— Spanish God does not ask to withstand more than is possible.
— Cameroonian God does not sleep.
— Kenyan God cultivates with a blunt machete.
— Kenyan God is our neighbor when our brother is absent.
— Swahili ❖ God is greater for everything.
— Nigerian God cures, and the doctor gets the money.
— Dutch God created a world full of many little words.
— Yiddish God complains not, but does what is fitting.
— English God comes with leaden feet,
but strikes with iron hands.
— Scottish ❖ God comes to see without a bell.
— English God comes at last when we
think he is furthest off.
— English God can shave without soap.
— Polish God bless him who pays visits, and short visiys.
— African (Egypt) God belongs to rich and poor alike.
— African (Ovambo) ❖ God alone understands fools.
— French God takes care of fools, and drunken men.
— Scottish God takes care of those who take care of themselves.
— Russian God takes with one hand, and gives with the other.
— Yiddish God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb.
— English ❖❖❖