Reginald Heber Quotes

• Spring unlocks the flowers to paint the laughing soil.

  Reginald Heber

  Happiness, Laughter, Spring

  Reginald Heber (1858). “The poetical works of Reginald Heber”, p.252

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• When Spring unlocks the flowers To paint the laughing soil; When summer's balmy breezes Refresh the mower's toil; When winter holds in frosty chains The fallow and the flood; In God the earth rejoices still, And owns her Maker good.

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  Summer, Spring, Flower

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• Eternity has no gray hairs! The flowers fade, the heart withers, man grows old and dies, the world lies down in the sepulchre of ages, but time writes no wrinkles on the brow of Eternity.

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  Lying, Flower, Writing

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 213), 1895.

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• The birds that wake the morning, and those that love the shade; The winds that sweep the mountain or lull the drowsy glade; The Sun that from his amber bower rejoiceth on his way, The Moon and Stars, their Master's name in silent pomp display.

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  Nature, Morning, Stars

  Reginald Heber (1858). “The poetical works of Reginald Heber”, p.252

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• We deny our Lord whenever, like Demas, we through love of this present world forsake the course of duty which Christ has plainly pointed out to us.

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  World, Christ, Lord

  Reginald Heber (1838). “Sermons: On the Lessons, the Gospel, Or the Epistle for Every Sunday in the Year, and for Week-day Festivals, Preached in the Parish Church of Hodnet, Salop”, p.333

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• We have a friend and protector, from whom, if we do not ourselves depart from Him, nor power nor spirit can separate us. In His strength let us proceed on our journey, through the storms, and troubles, and dangers of the world. However they may rage and swell, though the mountains shake at the tempests, our rock will not be moved: we have one friend who will never forsake us; one refuge, where we may rest in peace and stand in our lot at the end of the days. That same is He who liveth, and was dead; who is alive forevermore; and hath the keys of hell and of death.

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  God, Rest In Peace, Journey

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• Brightest and best of the sons of the morning,
  Dawn on our darkness, and lend us thine aid.
  Star of the east the horizon adorning,
  Guide where our infant Redeemer is laid.

  Reginald Heber

  Morning, Stars, Son

  Felicia Dorothea Browne Hemans, Reginald Heber, Robert Pollok (1831). “The poetical works of Hemans, Heber and Pollok”, p.17

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• Then on! then on! where duty leads,My course be onward still.

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  Duty, Stills, Courses

  George Crabbe, Reginald Heber, Robert Pollok (1839). “The Poetical Works of Crabbe, Heber, and Pollok: Complete in One Volume”

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• Bread of the world, in mercy broken,
  Wine of the soul, in mercy shed,
  By whom the words of life were spoken,
  And in whose death our sins are dead:
  Look on the heart by sorrow broken,
  Look on the tears by sinners shed;
  And be Thy feast to us the token
  That by Thy grace our souls are fed.

  Reginald Heber

  Heart, Wine, Broken

  Felicia Dorothea Browne Hemans, Reginald Heber (1834). “The Poetical Works of Hemans, Heber and Pollok: Complete in One Volume”, p.26

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• The Son of God goes forth to war,A kingly crown to gain;His blood red banner streams afar:Who follows in His train?Who best can drink his cup of woe,Triumphant over pain,Who patient bears his cross below,He follows in His train.

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  Pain, War, Son

  Reginald Heber (1827). “Hymns, written and adapted to the weekly church service of the year”, p.17

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• The flowers of Spring may wither, the hope of Summer fade, The Autumn droop in Winter, the birds forsake the shade; The winds be lull'd—the Sun and Moon forget their old decree, But we in Nature's latest hour, O Lord! will cling to Thee.

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  Summer, Spring, Flower

  Reginald Heber (1827). “Hymns, written and adapted to the weekly church service of the year”, p.97

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• Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty!
  Early in the morning our song shall rise to thee.

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  God, Song, Morning

  1826 'Holy, Holy, Holy!'.

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• The heathen in his blindness
  Bows down to wood and stone.

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  Stones, Woods, Bows

  'From Greenland's icy mountains' (1821 hymn). Heber later altered 'Ceylon's isle' to 'Java's isle'.

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• When the veil of death has been drawn between us and the objects of our regard, how quick-sighted do we become to their merits, and how bitterly do we remember words, or even looks, of unkindness which may have escaped in our intercourse with them.

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  Death, Looks, Veils

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• With drooping bells of clearest blue
  Thou didst attract my childish view,
  Almost resembling
  The azure butterflies that flew
  Where on the heath thy blossoms grew
  So lightly trembling.

  Reginald Heber

  Butterfly, Blue, Views

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (p. 353), 1922.

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• What though the spicy breezes Blow soft o'er Ceylon's isle; Though every prospect pleases, And only man is vile: In vain with lavish kindness The gifts of God are strown; The heathen in his blindness Bows down to wood and stone.

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  Kindness, Blow, Men

  'From Greenland's icy mountains' (1821 hymn). Heber later altered 'Ceylon's isle' to 'Java's isle'.

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• No hammers fell, no ponderous axes rung,Like some tall palm the mystic fabric sprung.Majestic silence.

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  Axes, Silence, Hammers

  Reginald Heber, Amelia Heber (1830). “The Life of Reginald Heber, D.D. Lord Bishop of Calcutta: With Selections from His Correspondence, Unpublished Poems, and Private Papers : Together with a Journal of His Tour in Norway, Sweden, Russia, Hungary and Germany, and a History of the Cosacks ; in Two Volumes”, p.30

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• From Greenland's icy mountains,
  From India's coral strand,
  Where Afric's sunny fountains
  Roll down their golden sand;
  From many an ancient river,
  From many a palmy plain,
  They call us to deliver
  Their land from error's chain.

  Reginald Heber

  Errors, Land, Rivers

  Felicia Dorothea Browne Hemans, Reginald Heber (1834). “The Poetical Works of Hemans, Heber and Pollok: Complete in One Volume”, p.26

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• Death rides on every passing breeze,
  He lurks in every flower.

  Reginald Heber

  Death, Flower, Passing

  Reginald Heber (1859). “Poetical Works”, p.227

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• Thus heavenly hope is all serene,But earthly hope, how bright soe'er,Still fluctuates o'er this changing scene,As false and fleeting as 't is fair.

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  Fleeting, Scene, Serene

  Reginald Heber (1841). “The poetical works of Reginald Heber”, p.371

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• Remember that every guilty compliance with the humors of the world, every sinful indulgence of our own passions, is laying up cares and fears for the hour of darkness; and that the remembrance of ill-spent time will strew our sick-bed with thorns, and rack our sinking spirits with despair.

  Reginald Heber

  Passion, Sick, Remembrance

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 547), 1895.

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• By cool Siloam's shady rill How sweet the lily grows!

  Reginald Heber

  Sweet, Lilies, Shady

  1812 In the Christian Observer, Apr.

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