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.
JOHN DONNEIn 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.
JOHN DONNEReason is our soul’s left hand, Faith her right, By these we reach divinity
JOHN DONNEI am a little world made cunningly.
JOHN DONNEHow imperfect is all our knowledge!
JOHN DONNEI count all that part of my life lost which I spent not in communion with God, or in doing good.
JOHN DONNEDeath comes equally to us all, and makes us all equal when it comes.
JOHN DONNEHow great love is, presence best trial makes, But absence tries how long this love will be.
JOHN DONNELove, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.
JOHN DONNEWe give each other a smile with a future in it.
JOHN DONNEAs states subsist in part by keeping their weaknesses from being known, so is it the quiet of families to have their chancery and their parliament within doors, and to compose and determine all emergent differences there.
JOHN DONNESleep with clean hands, either kept clean all day by integrity or washed clean at night by repentance.
JOHN DONNECome 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.
JOHN DONNETo know and feel all this and not have the words to express it makes a human a grave of his own thoughts.
JOHN DONNEI observe the physician with the same diligence as the disease.
JOHN DONNEIf we consider eternity, into that time never entered; eternity is not an everlasting flux of time, but time is as a short parenthesis in a long period; and eternity had been the same as it is, though time had never been.
JOHN DONNEThen love is sin, and let me sinful be.
JOHN DONNE