Humiliation is the beginning of sanctification.
JOHN DONNEHumiliation is the beginning of sanctification.
JOHN DONNEArt is the most passionate orgy within man’s grasp.
JOHN DONNEOne short sleep past, we wake eternally, And Death shall be no more; Death, thou shalt die.
JOHN DONNENo man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.
JOHN DONNESo in a voice, so in a shapeless flame, Angels affect us often.
JOHN DONNENature’s great masterpiece, an elephant; the only harmless great thing.
JOHN DONNEGod affords no man the comfort, the false comfort of Atheism: He will not allow a pretending Atheist the power to flatter himself, so far, as to seriously think there is no God.
JOHN DONNEFor love all love of other sights controls and makes one little room an everywhere.
JOHN DONNEBatter 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.
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 DONNEOur critical day is not the very day of our death; but the whole course of our life.
JOHN DONNELove, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.
JOHN DONNEIn heaven it is always autumn.
JOHN DONNEI am two fools, I know, For loving, and for saying so.
JOHN DONNEThy face is mine eye, and mine is thine.
JOHN DONNEI am a little world made cunningly.
JOHN DONNE