Humiliation is the beginning of sanctification.
JOHN DONNEHumiliation is the beginning of sanctification.
JOHN DONNEOnly our love hath no decay; this, no tomorrow hath, nor yesterday, running it never runs from us away, but truly keeps his first, last, everlasting day.
JOHN DONNEDeath is an ascension to a better library.
JOHN DONNEWe give each other a smile with a future in it.
JOHN DONNEI throw myself down in my chamber, and I call in, and invite God, and his Angels thither, and when they are there, I neglect God and his Angels, for the noise of a fly, for the rattling of a coach, for the whining of a door.
JOHN DONNESolitude is a torment which is not threatened in hell itself.
JOHN DONNEIf I dream I have you, I have you, for all our joys are but fantastical.
JOHN DONNELicence my roving hands, and let them go Before, behind, between, above, below.
JOHN DONNECome live with me, and be my love, And we will some new pleasures prove Of golden sands, and crystal brooks, With silken lines, and silver hooks.
JOHN DONNEDeath be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think’st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.
JOHN DONNEWithout outward declarations, who can conclude an inward love?
JOHN DONNEDespair is the damp of hell, as joy is the serenity of heaven.
JOHN DONNEWhen one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.
JOHN DONNEIn the first minute that my soul is infused, the Image of God is imprinted in my soul; so forward is God in my behalf, and so early does he visit me.
JOHN DONNEI wonder, by my troth, what thou and I Did, till we lov’d?
JOHN DONNETo be no part of any body, is to be nothing.
JOHN DONNE