John Milton Quotes About Grace

Quotes about: Grace

• It is not hard for any man who hath a Bible in his hand to borrow good words and holy sayings in abundance; but to make them his own is a work of grace only from above.

  John Milton

  Bible, Men, Hands

  John Milton (1835). “Prose Works”, p.325

• Grace was in all her steps, heaven in her eye, in every gesture dignity and love.

  John Milton

  Love, Romantic, Eye

  John Milton, Elijah Fenton, Samuel Johnson (1821). “Paradise lost”, p.241

• The end then of learning is to repair the ruins of our first parents by regaining to know God aright, and out of that knowledge to love him, to imitate him, to be like him, as we may the nearest by possessing our souls of true virtue, which being united to the heavenly grace of faith makes up the highest perfection.

  John Milton

  Perfection, Parent, Grace

  John Milton (2013). “The Collected Prose Works of John Milton (Annotated Edition)”, p.318, Jazzybee Verlag

• Hung over her enamour'd, and beheld Beauty, which, whether waking or asleep, Shot forth peculiar graces.

  John Milton

  Beauty, Grace, Peculiar

  John Milton (1853). “The Poetical Works of John Milton..Illustrated with Engravings from Drawings by J.M.W. Turner”, p.116

• O shame to men! Devil with devil damned Firm concord holds, men only disagree Of creatures rational, though under hope Of heavenly grace: and God proclaiming peace, Yet live in hatred, enmity, and strife Among themselves, and levy cruel wars, Wasting the earth, each other to destroy: As if (which might induce us to accord) Man had not hellish foes enough besides, That day and night for his destruction wait.

  John Milton

  War, Night, Men

  John Milton, David Scott Kastan “Paradise Lost (Kastan Edition)”, Hackett Publishing

• For contemplation he and valour formed; / For softness she and sweet attractive grace, / He for God only, she for God in him: / His fair large front and eye sublime declared / Absolute rule.

  John Milton

  Sweet, Eye, Grace

  'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 4, l. 297

• And grace that won who saw to wish her stay.

  John Milton

  Grace, Wish, Saws

  John Milton, Henry John Todd (1852). “The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes of Various Authors; and with Some Account of the Life and Writings of Milton, Derived Principally from Original Documents in Her Majesty's State-paper Office”, p.284

• For God will deign to visit oft the dwellings of just men -- delighted, and with frequent intercourse -- thither will send his winged messengers on errants of supernal grace.

  John Milton

  Men, Dwelling, Grace

  John Milton, Henry John Todd (1801). “The Poetical Works of John Milton”, p.62

• All hope is lost of my reception into grace; what worse? For where no hope is left, is left no fear.

  John Milton

  Grace, Despair, No Fear

  John Milton, Henry John Todd (1826). “The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes of Various Authors”, p.169

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