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.
JOHN DONNEThe rich have no more of the kingdom of heaven than they have purchased of the poor by their alms.
More John Donne Quotes
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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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I am a little world made cunningly.
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How much shall I be changed, before I am changed!
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As soon as there was two there was pride.
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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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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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Without outward declarations, who can conclude an inward love?
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Art is the most passionate orgy within man’s grasp.
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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 sing the progress of a deathless soul.
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Death is an ascension to a better library.
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Poor intricated soul! Riddling, perplexed, labyrinthical soul!
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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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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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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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