Humiliation is the beginning of sanctification.
JOHN DONNEO Lord, never suffer us to think that we can stand by ourselves, and not need thee.
More John Donne Quotes
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If 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.
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We give each other a smile with a future in it.
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No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.
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I shall not live ’till I see God; and when I have seen Him, I shall never die.
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Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.
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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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All occasions invite His mercies, and all times are His seasons.
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How imperfect is all our knowledge!
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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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I am two fools, I know, For loving, and for saying so.
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And what is so intricate, so entangling as death? Who ever got out of a winding sheet?
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Keep us, Lord, so awake in the duties of our calling that we may sleep in thy peace and wake in thy glory.
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As soon as there was two there was pride.
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To know and feel all this and not have the words to express it makes a human a grave of his own thoughts.
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Nature’s great masterpiece, an elephant; the only harmless great thing.
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