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.
JOHN DONNEI sing the progress of a deathless soul.
More John Donne Quotes
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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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Be more than man, or thou’rt less than an ant.
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Poor intricated soul! Riddling, perplexed, labyrinthical soul!
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Come 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.
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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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Nature’s great masterpiece, an elephant; the only harmless great thing.
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Humiliation is the beginning of sanctification.
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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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I wonder, by my troth, what thou and I Did, till we lov’d?
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Love was as subtly caught, as a disease; But being got it is a treasure sweet, which to defend is harder than to get: And ought not be profaned on either part, for though ‘Tis got by chance, ‘Tis kept by art.
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For God’s sake hold your tongue, and let me love.
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No man is an island unto himself.
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All occasions invite His mercies, and all times are His seasons.
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What if this present were the world’s last night?
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I am a little world made cunningly.
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