If we consider eternity, into that time never entered; eternity is not an everlasting flux of time, but time is as a short parenthesis in a long period; and eternity had been the same as it is, though time had never been.
JOHN DONNELove 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!
More John Donne Quotes
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I sing the progress of a deathless soul.
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Despair is the damp of hell, as joy is the serenity of heaven.
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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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As states subsist in part by keeping their weaknesses from being known, so is it the quiet of families to have their chancery and their parliament within doors, and to compose and determine all emergent differences there.
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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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No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face.
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Our critical day is not the very day of our death; but the whole course of our life.
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Be more than man, or thou’rt less than an ant.
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Batter my heart, three-personed God, for you As yet but knock; breathe, shine, and seek to mend; That I may rise, and stand, o’erthrow me, and bend Your force to break, blow, burn, and make me new.
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What if this present were the world’s last night?
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In 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.
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Poetry is a counterfeit creation, and makes things that are not, as though they were.
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God is so omnipresent. God is an angel in an angel, and a stone in a stone, and a straw in a straw.
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Full nakedness! All my joys are due to thee, as souls unbodied, bodies unclothed must be, to taste whole joys.
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I am a little world made cunningly.
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