As God loves a cheerful giver, so he also loves a cheerful taker. Who takes hold of his gifts with a glad heart.
JOHN DONNEOne short sleep past, we wake eternally, And Death shall be no more; Death, thou shalt die.
More John Donne Quotes
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I wonder, by my troth, what thou and I Did, till we lov’d?
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I am a little world made cunningly.
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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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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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Only 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.
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If I dream I have you, I have you, for all our joys are but fantastical.
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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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I sing the progress of a deathless soul.
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How imperfect is all our knowledge!
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All occasions invite His mercies, and all times are His seasons.
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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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Man is not only a contributory creature, but a total creature; he does not only make one, but he is all; he is not a piece of the world, but the world itself, and next to the glory of God, the reason why there is a world.
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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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Then love is sin, and let me sinful be.
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Be thine own palace, or the world’s thy jail.
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