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!
JOHN DONNESleep with clean hands, either kept clean all day by integrity or washed clean at night by repentance.
More John Donne Quotes
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Nature’s great masterpiece, an elephant; the only harmless great thing.
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Poor intricated soul! Riddling, perplexed, labyrinthical soul!
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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 count all that part of my life lost which I spent not in communion with God, or in doing good.
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One short sleep past, we wake eternally, And Death shall be no more; Death, thou shalt die.
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Humiliation is the beginning of sanctification.
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In heaven it is always autumn.
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Poetry is a counterfeit creation, and makes things that are not, as though they were.
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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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More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
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Death is an ascension to a better library.
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I wonder, by my troth, what thou and I Did, till we lov’d?
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Doth not a man die even in his birth? The breaking of prison is death, and what is our birth, but a breaking of prison?
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How imperfect is all our knowledge!
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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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