"They Grind Exceedingly Small" was used as the title of a short story by Ben Ames Williams publishing in the Saturday Evening Post in 1919."The mill of God grinds slow but grinds exceeding(ly. Read More++. Mills of the gods grind slowly Idioms by The Free Dictionary. This expression comes from ancient Greek, translated as "The mills of the gods grind slowly, but they grind small." In English ...