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Reason is our soul’s left hand, Faith her right, By these we reach divinity

John Donne

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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Angel God Present Stone Straw
Be more than man, or thou’rt less than an ant.
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Animal Man Worth Yourself
There is hook in every benefit, that sticks in his jaws that takes that benefit, and draws him whither the benefactor will.
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Benefit Himself Willing
Friends are ourselves.
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Friendship One Liner Ourselves
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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Angel Animal God Invitation Myself Noise Sound
Solitude is a torment which is not threatened in hell itself.
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Hell Solitude Threat
The rich have no more of the kingdom of heaven than they have purchased of the poor by their alms.
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Gift Heaven Material Poor Rich
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.
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Continent Man Piece
Art is the most passionate orgy within man’s grasp.
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Art Compassionate Hold Man
Death is an ascension to a better library.
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Better Death Library
Any man’s death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.
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Death Diminish Freedom Kind Man
One short sleep past, we wake eternally, And Death shall be no more; Death, thou shalt die.
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Death Forever Past Short Sleep Wake Up
I count all that part of my life lost which I spent not in communion with God, or in doing good.
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Count God Goodness Life Myself
Full nakedness! All my joys are due to thee, as souls unbodied, bodies unclothed must be, to taste whole joys.
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Body Clothes Joy Naked Soul Taste
I do not love a man, except I hate his vices, because those vices are the enemies, and the destruction of that friend whom I love.
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Enemy Exception Friendship God Love Man Myself Vice
God 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.
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Affordable Comfortable God Himself Power Praise

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