John Donne Quotes About Angels

Quotes about: Angels

• I throw myself down in my chamber, and I call in, and invite God, and his Angels thither, and when they are there, I neglect God and his Angels, for the noise of a fly, for the rattling of a coach, for the whining of a door.

  John Donne

  God, Christian, Prayer

  'LXXX Sermons' (1640) 12 December 1626 'At the Funeral of Sir William Cokayne'

• Twice or thrice had I loved thee before I knew thy face or name, so in a voice, so in a shapeless flame, angels affect us oft, and worshiped be.

  John Donne

  Love, Angel, Flames

  'Songs and Sonnets' 'Air and Angels'

• At the round earth's imagined corners, blow Your trumpets, angels, and arise, arise From death, you numberless infinities Of souls **** All whom war, dearth, age, agues, tyrannies, Despair, law, chance, hath slain.

  John Donne

  War, Angel, Blow

  John Donne, John Daniel Thieme (2014). “John Donne Holy Sonnets: with an introduction by John Daniel Thieme”, p.23, Vicarage Hill Press

• God is so omnipresent. . . . God is an angel in an angel, and a stone in a stone, and a straw in a straw.

  John Donne

  Angel, Stones, Fairy

  John Donne (1839). “The Works of John Donne: Sermons”, p.137

• So in a voice, so in a shapeless flame, Angels affect us often.

  John Donne

  Angel, Flames, Voice

  'Songs and Sonnets' 'Air and Angels'

• In best understandings, sin began, Angels sinned first, then Devils, and then Man.

  John Donne

  Angel, Men, Understanding

  John Donne (1839). “The Works of John Donne: Sermons. Letters. Poems”, p.455

• Men are sponges, which, to pour out, receive;
  Who know false play, rather than lose, deceive.
  For in best understandings sin began,
  Angels sinn'd first, then devils, and then man.
  Only perchance beasts sin not ; wretched we
  Are beasts in all but white integrity.

  John Donne

  Integrity, Angel, Men

  John Donne (1896). “Poems of John Donne”

• I throw myself down in my chamber, and I call and invite God and his angels thither.

  John Donne

  Angel, Whining, Chamber

  'LXXX Sermons' (1640) 12 December 1626 'At the Funeral of Sir William Cokayne'

• At the round earth's imagined corners, blow your trumpets, angels.

  John Donne

  Angel, Blow, Earth

  'Holy Sonnets' (1609) no. 4 (in J. Carey's edition, OUP, 1990)

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