I shall not live ’till I see God; and when I have seen Him, I shall never die.
JOHN DONNEWhat if this present were the world’s last night?
More John Donne Quotes
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I am a little world made cunningly.
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As God loves a cheerful giver, so he also loves a cheerful taker. Who takes hold of his gifts with a glad heart.
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To be no part of any body, is to be nothing.
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Who are a little wise the best fools be.
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I sing the progress of a deathless soul.
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How imperfect is all our knowledge!
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If I dream I have you, I have you, for all our joys are but fantastical.
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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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Our two souls therefore which are one, Though I must go, endure not yet A breach, but an expansion, Like gold to airy thinness beat.
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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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I observe the physician with the same diligence as the disease.
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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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Batter my heart, three-personed God, for you As yet but knock; breathe, shine, and seek to mend; That I may rise, and stand, o’erthrow me, and bend Your force to break, blow, burn, and make me new.
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How much shall I be changed, before I am changed!
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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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Take me to you, imprison me, for I, except you enthrall me, never shall be free, nor ever chaste, except you ravish me.
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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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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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What if this present were the world’s last night?
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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.
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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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How great love is, presence best trial makes, But absence tries how long this love will be.
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If ever any beauty I did see, Which I desired, and got, ’twas but a dream of thee.
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Nature hath no goal though she hath law.
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In heaven it is always autumn.
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