Quotes from John Donne
Other men's crosses are not my crosses.
- John Donne
Let man's soul be a sphere, and then, in this, The intelligence that moves, devotion is.
- John Donne
Verse hath a middle nature: heaven keeps souls, The grave keeps bodies, verse the fame enrols.
- John Donne
The difference between the reason of man and the instinct of the beast is this, that the beast does but know, but the man knows that he knows.
- John Donne
As he that fears God fears nothing else, so he that sees God sees everything else.
- John Donne
I shall not live 'till I see God; and when I have seen Him, I shall never die.
- John Donne
I neglect God and his angles for the noise of a fly, for the rattling of a coach, for the whining of a door.
- John Donne
There is nothing that God hath established in a constant course of nature, and which therefore is done every day, but would seem a Miracle, and exercise our admiration, if it were done but once.
- John Donne
The sun must not set upon anger, much less will I let the sun set upon the anger of God towards me.
- John Donne
God is so omnipresent. . . . God is an angel in an angel, and a stone in a stone, and a straw in a straw.
- John Donne
Religion is not a melancholy, the spirit of God is not a damper.
- John Donne
If I lose at play, I blaspheme; if my fellow loses, he blasphemes. So, God is always the loser.
- John Donne