As he that fears God fears nothing else, so he that sees God sees everything else.
JOHN DONNEGod is so omnipresent. God is an angel in an angel, and a stone in a stone, and a straw in a straw.
More John Donne Quotes
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How imperfect is all our knowledge!
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Then love is sin, and let me sinful be.
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Pleasure is none, if not diversified.
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More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
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I 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.
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I shall not live ’till I see God; and when I have seen Him, I shall never die.
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Death comes equally to us all, and makes us all equal when it comes.
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No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face.
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Love was as subtly caught, as a disease; But being got it is a treasure sweet, which to defend is harder than to get: And ought not be profaned on either part, for though ‘Tis got by chance, ‘Tis kept by art.
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Sleep with clean hands, either kept clean all day by integrity or washed clean at night by repentance.
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Love is strong as death; but nothing else is as strong as either; and both, love and death, met in Christ. How strong and powerful upon you, then, should that instruction be, that comes to you from both these, the love and death of Jesus Christ!
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To know and feel all this and not have the words to express it makes a human a grave of his own thoughts.
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Solitude is a torment which is not threatened in hell itself.
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I wonder, by my troth, what thou and I Did, till we lov’d?
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One short sleep past, we wake eternally, And Death shall be no more; Death, thou shalt die.
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