Love is strong as death; but nothing else is as strong as either; and both, love and death, met in Christ. How strong and powerful upon you, then, should that instruction be, that comes to you from both these, the love and death of Jesus Christ!
JOHN DONNEThere is nothing that God hath established in a constant course of nature, and which therefore is done every day, but would seem a Miracle, and exercise our admiration, if it were done but once.
More John Donne Quotes
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Humiliation is the beginning of sanctification.
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If I dream I have you, I have you, for all our joys are but fantastical.
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Nothing but man of all envenomed things, doth work upon itself, with inborn stings.
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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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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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More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
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Love’s mysteries in souls do grow, But yet the body is his book.
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Poor intricated soul! Riddling, perplexed, labyrinthical soul!
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Art is the most passionate orgy within man’s grasp.
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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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No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.
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Doth not a man die even in his birth? The breaking of prison is death, and what is our birth, but a breaking of prison?
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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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I sing the progress of a deathless soul.
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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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