Quotes from John Donne
If every gnat that flies were an archangel, all that could but tell me that there is a God; and the poorest worm that creeps tells me that.
- John Donne
I throw myself down in my chamber, and I call and invite God and his angels thither.
- John Donne
Of all the commentaries on the Scriptures, good examples are the best.
- John Donne
O how feeble is man's power, that if good fortune fall, cannot add another hour, nor a lost hour recall!
- John Donne
Keep us Lord so awake in the duties of our calling that we may sleep in thy peace and wake in thy glory.
- John Donne
O! I shall soon despair, when I shall seeThat Thou lovest mankind well, yet wilt not choose me, And Satan hates me, yet is loth to lose me.
- John Donne
Be thine own palace or the world's thy jail.
- John Donne
All our life is but a going out to the place of execution, to death.
- John Donne
Reason is our soul's left hand, Faith her right.
- John Donne
And new Philosophy calls all in doubt, the element of fire is quite put out; the Sun is lost, and the earth, and no mans wit can well direct him where to look for it.
- John Donne
Affliction is a treasure, and scarce any man hath enough of it.
- John Donne
As states subsist in part by keeping their weaknesses from being known, so is it the quiet of families to have their chancery and their parliament within doors, and to compose and determine all emergent differences there.
- John Donne