John Keble Quotes

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• And help us, this and every day, to live more nearly as we pray.
• The voice that breathed o'er Eden, That earliest wedding day.
• Blest are the pure in heart, for they shall see our God. The secret of the Lord is theirs; Their soul is Christ's abode.
• New every morning is the love Our waking and uprising prove, Through sleep and darkness safely brought, Restored to life and power and thought.
• Sun of my soul, thou Savior dear, It is not night if thou be near. Oh, may no earthborn cloud arise To hide thee from…
• Once you make up your mind never to stand waiting and hesitating when your conscience tells you what you ought to do, and you have…
• Sweet is the smile of home; the mutual look when hearts are of each other sure.
• Sun of my soul! Thou Saviour dear, It is not night if Thou be near.
• Give us grace to listen well.
• The watchful mother tarries nigh, though sleep has closed her infants eyes.
• As fire kindled by fire, so is the poet's mind kindled by contact with a brother poet.
• When you find yourself overpowered, as it were, by melancholy, the best way is to go out and do something.
• Abide with me from morn to eve, / For without Thee I cannot live: / Abide with me when night is nigh. / For without…
• Sweet is the infant's waking smile, And sweet the old man's rest-- But middle age by no fond wile, No soothing calm is blest.
• Look in, and see Christ's chosen saint In triumph wear his Christ-like chain; No fear lest he should swerve or faint; "His life is Christ,…
• If the Church of England were to fail, it would be found in my parish
• God hath sworn to lift on high Who sinks himself by true humility.
• Sprinkled along the waste of years Full many a soft green isle appears: Pause where we may upon the desert road, Some shelter is in…
• Soft as Memnon's harp at morning, To the inward ear devout, Touched by light, with heavenly warning Your transporting chords ring out. Every leaf in…
• When the shore is won at last, Who will count the billow past?

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