Commemoration of John Donne, Priest, Poet, 1631 Though natural men, who have induced secondary and figurative consideration, have found out this... emblematical use of sleep, that it should be a representation of death, God, who wrought and perfected his work, before Nature began, (for Nature was but his Apprentice, to learn in the first seven days, and now is his foreman, and works next under him) God, I say, intended sleep only for the refreshing of man by bodily rest, and not for a figure of death, for he intended not death itself then. But Man having induced death upon himself, God hath taken Man's Creature, death, into his hand, and mended it, and whereas it hath in itself a fearfull form and aspect, so that Man is afraid of his own Creature, God presents it to him, in a familiar, in an assiduous, in an agreeable and acceptable form, in sleep, that so when he awakes from sleep and says to himself, shall I be no otherwise when I am dead, than I was even now, when I was asleep, he may be ashamed of his waking dreams, and of his Melancholique fancying out a horrid and an affrightful figure of that death which is so like sleep. As then we need sleep to live out our threescore and ten years, so we need death, to live that life which we cannot out-live.
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Related Holy Saturday Commemoration of Jack Winslow, Missionary, Evangelist, 1974 The progress of these t... WILLIAM LAW I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES Feast of Commemoration of Helena, Protector of the Faith, 330 The cross is laid on every Christian... DIETRICH BONHOEFFER And if a man have committed a sin worthy of death, and he be to be put to death, and thou hang him o... BIBLE Commemoration of John Donne, Priest, Poet, 1631 Death, be not proud, though some have called thee ... JOHN DONNE Death is so important that God visited death upon his own son, thereby helping us learn right from w... P. J. O'ROURKE For a man who has done his natural duty, death is as natural as sleep. GEORGE SANTAYANA If a God, he could not suffer death, for immortality cannot die, and as a man his death could be no ... THOMAS PAINE Now, blessings light on him that first invented this same sleep!
it covers a man all over, thought... CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA) Nay! for perchance that poppy-crownèd god Is like the watcher by a sick man’s bed Who talks of sl... OSCAR WILDE That which is alive hath known death, and that which is dead can never die, for in the Circle of the... H. RIDER HAGGARD But the man who dares to live his life with death before his eyes, the man who receives life back bi... ALBERT SCHWEITZER Now blessings light on him that first invented this same sleep: it covers a man all over, thoughts a... MIGUEL DE CERVANTES To no man does the earth mean so much as to the soldier. When he presses himself down upon her long ... ERICH MARIA REMARQUE If we lived for ever, what you say would be true. But we have to die, we have to leave life presentl... E.M. FORSTER Easter Commemoration of John Donne, Priest, Poet, 1631 God, who is Almighty, Alpha and Omega, Fi... JOHN DONNE Each man lives in his own universe and when he dies the world is over BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA Death was a friend, and sleep was Death's brother. JOHN STEINBECK He, the Life of all, our Lord and Saviour, did not arrange the manner of his own death lest He shoul... ATHANASIUS OF ALEXANDRIA Commemoration of John Donne, Priest, Poet, 1631 I throw myself down in my chamber, and I call in ... JOHN DONNE The true Christian is called to be a soldier and must behave as such from the day of his conversion ... J. C. RYLE Prayer is the movement of trust, of gratitude, of adoration, or of sorrow, that places us before God... THOMAS MERTON But I account the use that a man should seek of the publishing of
his own writings before his death... FRANCIS BACON How wonderful is death! Death and his brother sleep. PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY That the God-man died for his people, and that His death is their life, is an idea which was in some... WILLIAM ROBERTSON SMITH Now men say, "I am in no wise prepared for this work, and therefore it cannot be wrought in me," and... JOHN DONNE So when the devil throws your sins in your face and declares that you deserve death and hell, tell h... MARTIN LUTHER There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's... GUY ALMES Biological death is only a mechanical problem, it can be solved and man can live millions of years! ... MEHMET MURAT ILDAN What a man has made himself, he will be; his state is the result of his past life, and his heaven or... CATHERINE CROWE The great question for us now is, Do we believe in that love of God which Christ taught by His words... JAMES HASTINGS RASHDALL And when he that hath an issue is cleansed of his issue; then he shall number to himself seven days ... BIBLE A man may go into the field and say his prayer and be aware of God, or he may be in Church and be aw... MEISTER ECKHART Lie you easy, dream you light, And sleep you fast for aye; And luckier may you find the ni... A.E. HOUSMAN To fear death, gentlemen, is no other than to think oneself wise when one is not, to think one knows... SOCRATES Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep: and yet a third of Life is passed in sleep LORD BYRON Commemoration of Caroline Chisholm, Social Reformer, 1877 I can see no intellectual objection to ... DONALD O. SOPER Then I commended mirth, because a man hath no better thing under
the sun, than to eat, and to drink... BIBLE We term sleep a death by which we may be literally said to die daily; in fine, so like death, I dare... SIR THOMAS BROWNE There is no such thing as death. In nature nothing dies. From each sad remnant of decay, some forms ... CHARLES MACKAY I believe that to execute a man for murder is to punish him immeasurably more dreadfully than is equ... FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY I love you every day. And now I will miss you every day. MITCH ALBOM Be not thou therefore ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner: but be thou part... BIBLE Every man is a part of each and our senses are attached to both. So when a man speaks of himself as ... PHINEAS PARKHURST QUIMBY Time is life. Time for birth, time for death. LAILAH GIFTY AKITA And it shall be, when he sitteth upon the throne of his kingdom, that he shall write him a copy of t... BIBLE No one warns young people to follow Adam's example. He waited till God saw his need. Then God ma... JIM ELLIOT In vain does anyone pretend that he will be a martyr for his religion, when he will not rule an appe... JOHN TILLOTSON I read about a man condemned to death saying or thinking, an hour before his death, that if he had t... FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY Shrouded as he was for a decade in an apparent cloak of anonymity and obscurity, Osama bin Laden was... CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS Those who have lived a good life do not fear death, but meet it calmly, and even long for it in the ... SOURCE UNKNOWN This malady which Swann’s love had become had so proliferated, was so closely interwoven with all ... MARCEL PROUST Dreams, just dreams, it's all illusion BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA ...his sleep, though deep as death itself, was not dreamless this time, but threaded with ghostly wi... PATRICK SüSKIND I realized that day that blessings come in a variety of shapes, colors, and sizes. CRAIG GROESCHEL You wanted Death? This is it. Dirt and decay, nothing more. Death translates us all into earth.” H... CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE Feast of Saints & Martyrs of England The one supreme, unchangeable rule of love, which is a law t... WILLIAM LAW Feast of Peter & Paul, Apostles No man can be without his god. If he have not the true God to ble... RICHARD CHEVENIX TRENCH Therefore, O thou son of man, speak unto the house of Israel; Thus ye speak, saying, If our transgre... BIBLE The greatest loss is the loss of life. LAILAH GIFTY AKITA In one horrible moment the last piece of the prophecy became clear. So bid him take care,... SUZANNE COLLINS God, in a man who is made partaker of His nature, desireth and taketh no revenge for all the wrong t... FRANÇOIS DE SALES It's impossible to be the Mockingjay. Impossible to complete even this one sentence. Because now I k... SUZANNE COLLINS She had no time for sleep, with the weight of the world upon her shoulders. And she feared to dream.... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN If a man say, 'I love God,' and hateth his brother, he is a liar: for he that loveth not his... JOHN THE APOSTLE When I want to move, I remember death, how it is ultimate and inevitable, and pure. Then I am free t... D.H. LAWRENCE Feast of William Law, Priest, Mystic, 1761 Commemoration of William of Ockham, Franciscan Friar, Phi... WILLIAM LAW Commemoration of Rose of Lima, Contemplative, 1617 Those who think God did this almost incredible ... J. B. PHILLIPS Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, and yet a third of life is passed in sleep. LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep. GEORGE GORDON BYRON Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep. LORD BYRON But we must believe that Judas, who repented even to agony, who repented so that his high-prized lif... GEORGE MACDONALD Death darkens his eyes, and unplumes his wings,
Yet the sweetest song is the last he sings:
Li... CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) Now it came to pass after the death of Saul, when David was returned from the slaughter of the Amale... BIBLE And this is the case of the slayer, which shall flee thither, that he may live: Whoso killeth his ne... BIBLE He gave his Son, his one and only Son. And this is why: so that no one need be destroyed; by believi... ANONYMOUS We should know that faith is a gift of God, and that it may not be given to men, except it be gracio... JOHN WYCLIFFE My difficulties lay deeper. It was more than I could believe that Jesus was the only incarnate son o... MAHATMA GANDHI Birth and Death are words we chose to describe the doorways in and out of a cycle. This cycle is con... FRANKLIN GILLETTE It was a cold morning, and he shivered a little; but he had been taught by his uncle that his prayer... W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM You may fancy the Lord had His own power to fall back upon. But that would have been to Him just the... GEORGE MACDONALD The perfection of His relation to us swallows up all our imperfections, all our defeats, all our evi... GEORGE MACDONALD We die a day at a time BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA Another version of the “Prosperity Gospel” or “Name It and Claim It” teaching has to do with... ERIC METAXAS Human stories are practically always about one thing, really, aren't they? Death. The inevitability ... J.R.R. TOLKIEN We all want to become more than we are, we want to live forever, that is why we hate death and creat... BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA The Cross is the approbation of our existence, not in words, but in an act so completely radical tha... POPE BENEDICT XVI The Cross is the approbation of our existence, not in words, but in an act so completely radical tha... JOSEPH RATZINGER And what's more, he'll go and live with his friend unless his friend is allowed to come in and live ... P.L. TRAVERS In the end, the art of hunger can be described as an existential art. It is a way of looking death i... PAUL AUSTER As it was before, so it was now; I need only be aware of God to live; I need only forget Him, or dis... LEO TOLSTOY He wanted to argue like this forever. This was better than nothing. There was no exhausting his ange... DAVID DUCHOVNY It is perhaps not entirely so, though it has often been said, that man makes his God in his own imag... ERIC HOFFER What madness it is for a man to starve himself to enrich his heir, and so turn a friend into an enem... SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) What madness it is for a man to starve himself to enrich his heir, and so turn a friend into an enem... SENECA oh. she heard it too-no waters coursing, canyon empty, sun soundless- ... BARBARA BLATNER I could simply kill you now, get it over with, who would know the difference... BARBARA BLATNER ...gripping the rim of the sink you claw your way to stand and cling there, ... BARBARA BLATNER Because death is the only thing that could have ever kept him from you. ALLY CARTER Death is the veil which those who live call life; They sleep, and it is lifted. PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY
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provisions are not cut off, I find ... DR. JOHN DONNE No spring, nor summer beauty hath such grace
As I have seen in one autumnal face;
Young beauti... DR. JOHN DONNE I have just got a new theory of eternity. DR. JOHN DONNE If we consider eternity, into that time never entered; eternity
is not an everlasting flux of time,... DR. JOHN DONNE He was the word that spake it,
He took the bread and brake it;
And what that word did make it,... DR. JOHN DONNE We understood
Her by her sight; her pure and eloquent blood
Spoke in her cheeks, and so distin... DR. JOHN DONNE When I was young, I was obsessed with Michael Jordan and the Bulls. He's the only person I get s... ELENA DELLE DONNE That's the thing: You don't understand burnout unless you've been burned out. And it'... ELENA DELLE DONNE I'd rather be a face for happiness and doing things that you have a passion for, rather than fak... ELENA DELLE DONNE Volleyball was a lot of fun, but I knew it wasn't my sport. ELENA DELLE DONNE I'm doing whatever I have to do to help my team win. So, instead of being focused on anything fr... ELENA DELLE DONNE As I grew up, I became aware that there are people with special needs out there, and I have a real c... ELENA DELLE DONNE It's expensive to raise a child with special needs, which people don't even think about. Emo... ELENA DELLE DONNE I could do whatever I wanted as a girl, whatever my brother did. I could play against the boys and a... ELENA DELLE DONNE My family is from Liverpool, so I have some of those vowel sounds, I've got the slack tone of so... JOHN OLIVER Protest and anger practically always derives from hope, and the shouting out against injustice is al... JOHN BERGER No man is to be credited for his mere authority's sake, unless he can show Scripture for the mai... JOHN WYCLIFFE By ensuring that no one in government has too much power, the Constitution helps protect ordinary Am... JOHN ROBERTS Human beings, we have dark sides; we have dark issues in our lives. To progress anywhere in life, yo... JOHN NOBLE Learn as many mistakes and what not to do while your business or product is small. Don't be in s... DAYMOND JOHN Being thrown into the fire and getting the thing turned around in a hurry made it more difficult. Th... JOHN ELWAY This Constitution was not made for a day, nor is it composed of such flexible materials as to be war... JOHN TYLER Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans. JOHN LENNON Farce is tragedy played at a thousand revolutions per minute. JOHN MORTIMER No power on earth has a right to take our property from us without our consent. JOHN JAY Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has a right to, but himself. JOHN LOCKE High School is like a spork: it's a crappy spoon and a crappy fork, so in the end it's just ... JOHN MAYER