Reason is our soul’s left hand, Faith her right, By these we reach divinity
JOHN DONNEGod 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.
More John Donne Quotes
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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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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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To be no part of any body, is to be nothing.
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No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face.
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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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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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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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Any man’s death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.
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Humiliation is the beginning of sanctification.
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God is so omnipresent. God is an angel in an angel, and a stone in a stone, and a straw in a straw.
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The rich have no more of the kingdom of heaven than they have purchased of the poor by their alms.
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Ask not for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.
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No man is an island unto himself.
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True joy is the earnest which we have of heaven, it is the treasure of the soul, and therefore should be laid in a safe place, and nothing in this world is safe to place it in.
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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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