When we speak of knowing God, it must be understood with reference to man’s limited powers of comprehension. God, as He really is, is far beyond man’s imagination, let alone understanding. God has revealed only so much of Himself as our minds can conceive and the weakness of our nature can bear.
JOHN MILTONAll is not lost, the unconquerable will, and study of revenge, immortal hate, and the courage never to submit or yield.
More John Milton Quotes
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What is strength without a double share of wisdom?
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Danger will wink on opportunity.
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Time will run back and fetch the Age of Gold.
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Where peace And rest can never dwell, hope never comes, That comes to all.
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Hard are the ways of truth, and rough to walk.
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The virtuous mind that ever walks attended By a strong siding champion, Conscience.
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Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet, With charm of earliest birds.
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None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license.
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Hell has no benefits, only torture.
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As therefore the state of man now is, what wisdom can there be to choose, what continence to forbear, without the knowledge of good and evil?
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Neither prosperity nor empire nor heaven can be worth winning at the price of a virulent temper, bloody hands, an anguished spirit, and a vain hatred of the rest of the world.
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Anarchy is the sure consequence of tyranny; for no power that is not limited by laws can ever be protected by them.
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Awake, arise or be for ever fall’n.
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Meanwhile the Adversary of God and man, Satan with thoughts inflamed of highest design, Puts on swift wings, and towards the gates of hell Explores his solitary flight.
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The mind is its own place, and in itself, can make heaven of Hell, and a hell of Heaven.
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