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.
JOHN DONNEI 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.
JOHN DONNEOur critical day is not the very day of our death; but the whole course of our life.
JOHN DONNEWithout outward declarations, who can conclude an inward love?
JOHN DONNEGod is so omnipresent. God is an angel in an angel, and a stone in a stone, and a straw in a straw.
JOHN DONNEI am a little world made cunningly.
JOHN DONNENothing but man of all envenomed things, doth work upon itself, with inborn stings.
JOHN DONNEFor love all love of other sights controls and makes one little room an everywhere.
JOHN DONNEO Lord, never suffer us to think that we can stand by ourselves, and not need thee.
JOHN DONNEBe more than man, or thou’rt less than an ant.
JOHN DONNEI am two fools, I know, For loving, and for saying so.
JOHN DONNEPoor intricated soul! Riddling, perplexed, labyrinthical soul!
JOHN DONNENature’s great masterpiece, an elephant; the only harmless great thing.
JOHN DONNEAs states subsist in part by keeping their weaknesses from being known, so is it the quiet of families to have their chancery and their parliament within doors, and to compose and determine all emergent differences there.
JOHN DONNELove 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.
JOHN DONNEIn 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.
JOHN DONNEAll occasions invite His mercies, and all times are His seasons.
JOHN DONNE