As God loves a cheerful giver, so he also loves a cheerful taker. Who takes hold of his gifts with a glad heart.
JOHN DONNEIn heaven it is always autumn.
More John Donne Quotes
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One short sleep past, we wake eternally, And Death shall be no more; Death, thou shalt die.
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How imperfect is all our knowledge!
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We give each other a smile with a future in it.
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There 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.
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Humiliation is the beginning of sanctification.
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Be thine own palace, or the world’s thy jail.
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All occasions invite His mercies, and all times are His seasons.
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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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Full nakedness! All my joys are due to thee, as souls unbodied, bodies unclothed must be, to taste whole joys.
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Festive alcohol sometimes leads to an excess of honesty.
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So in a voice, so in a shapeless flame, Angels affect us often.
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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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Our critical day is not the very day of our death; but the whole course of our life.
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What if this present were the world’s last night?
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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!
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