O how feeble is man's power, that if good fortune fall, cannot add another hour, nor a lost hour recall!
John DonneHumiliation is the beginning of sanctification; and as without this, without holiness, no man shall see God, though he pore whole nights upon his Bible; so without that, without humility, no man shall hear God speak to his soul, though he hear three two-hour sermons every day.
John DonneI neglect God and his angles for the noise of a fly, for the rattling of a coach, for the whining of a door.
John DonneI have done one braver thing than all the Worthies did, and yet a braver thence doth spring, which is, to keep that hid.
John DonneWho ever comes to shroud me, do not harm Nor question much That subtle wreath of hair, which crowns my arm; The mystery, the sign you must not touch, For 'tis my outward soul, Viceroy to that, which then to heaven being gone, Will leave this to control, And keep these limbs, her provinces, from dissolution.
John Donne