Gerard Manley Hopkins Quotes

It is not only prayer that gives God glory but work. Smiting on an anvil, sawing a beam, whitewashing a wall, driving horses, sweeping, scouring, everything gives God some glory if being in his grace...

Gerard Manley Hopkins

The Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius of Loyola, composed from 1522-1524, divided into four thematic 'weeks' of variable length, carried out over a period of 28 to 30 days.

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Any day, any minute we bless God for our being or for anything, for food, for sunlight, we do and are what we were meant for, made for - things that give and mean to give God glory.

Gerard Manley Hopkins

Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius Loyola.

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He is so great that all things give him glory if you mean they should. So then, my brethren, live.

Gerard Manley Hopkins

Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius Loyola.

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For human nature, being more highly pitched, selved, and distinctive than anything in the world, can have been developed, evolved, condensed, from the vastness of the world not anyhow or by the...

Gerard Manley Hopkins

Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius Loyola.

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I consider my selfbeing ... that taste of myself, of I and me above and in all things, which is more distinctive than the taste of ale or alum, more distinctive than the smell of walnutleaf or...

Gerard Manley Hopkins

Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius Loyola.

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Searching nature I taste self but at one tankard, that of my own being.

Gerard Manley Hopkins

Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius Loyola.

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I find myself both as man and as myself something more determined and distinctive, at pitch, more distinctive and higher pitched than anything else I see.

Gerard Manley Hopkins

Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius Loyola.

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When I compare myself, my being-myself, with anything else whatever, all things alike, all in the same degree, rebuff me with blank unlikeness.

Gerard Manley Hopkins

Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius Loyola.

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Cloud-puffball, torn tufts, tossed pillows ' flaunt forth, then chevy on an air- built thoroughfare: heaven-roysterers, in gay-gangs ' they throng; they glitter in marches. Down roughcast, down...

Gerard Manley Hopkins

Original Version - That Nature Is A Heraclitean Fire - 1918.

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Nature's Bonfire (That Nature Is A Heraclitean Fire) I am all at once what Christ is, ' since he was what I am, and This Jack, joke, poor potsherd, ' patch, matchwood, immortal diamond, Is...

Gerard Manley Hopkins

Song - Natures Bonfire - 1918.

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