I am a little world made cunningly.
JOHN DONNE
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!
More John Donne Quotes
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I am a little world made cunningly.
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Humiliation is the beginning of sanctification.
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Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.
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There is nothing that God hath established in a constant course of nature, and which therefore is done every day, but would seem a Miracle, and exercise our admiration, if it were done but once.
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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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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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As he that fears God fears nothing else, so he that sees God sees everything else.
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We give each other a smile with a future in it.
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Take me to you, imprison me, for I, except you enthrall me, never shall be free, nor ever chaste, except you ravish me.
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Be thine own palace, or the world’s thy jail.
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Nothing but man of all envenomed things, doth work upon itself, with inborn stings.
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No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face.
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Come 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.
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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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Who are a little wise the best fools be.
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O Lord, never suffer us to think that we can stand by ourselves, and not need thee.
JOHN DONNE