When we speak of knowing God, it must be understood with reference to man’s limited powers of comprehension. God, as He really is, is far beyond man’s imagination, let alone understanding. God has revealed only so much of Himself as our minds can conceive and the weakness of our nature can bear.
JOHN MILTONSolitude is sometimes the best society.
More John Milton Quotes
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Gratitude bestows reverence…..changing forever how we experience life and the world.
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The best apology against false accusers is silence.
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Apt words have power to suage the tumors of a troubled mind.
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To be weak is miserable, Doing or suffering.
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Let us no more contend, nor blame each other, blamed enough elsewhere, but strive, In offices of love, how we may lighten each other’s burden.
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Innocence, Once Lost, Can Never Be Regained. Darkness, Once Gazed Upon, Can Never Be Lost.
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The end of all learning is to know God, and out of that knowledge to love and imitate Him.
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The martyrs shook the powers of darkness with the irresistible power of weakness.
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Peace hath her victories, no less renowned than War.
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Never can true reconcilement grow where wounds of deadly hate have pierced so deep.
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Retiring from the popular noise, I seek This unfrequented place to find some ease.
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Nothing profits more than self-esteem, grounded on what is just and right.
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Solitude sometimes is best society.
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The virtuous mind that ever walks attended By a strong siding champion, Conscience.
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Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet, With charm of earliest birds.
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Revenge, at first though sweet, Bitter ere long back on itself recoils.
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Where peace And rest can never dwell, hope never comes, That comes to all.
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Evil on itself shall back recoil.
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Neither prosperity nor empire nor heaven can be worth winning at the price of a virulent temper, bloody hands, an anguished spirit, and a vain hatred of the rest of the world.
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Apt words have power to suage the tumors of a troubled mind.
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And feel by turns the bitter change Of fierce extremes, extremes by change more fierce.
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Time will run back and fetch the Age of Gold.
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Loneliness is the first thing which God’s eye named not good.
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My latest found, Heaven’s last, best gift, my ever new delight!
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He who reigns within himself and rules passions, desires, and fears is more than a king.
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Thou canst not touch the freedom of my mind.
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