John Donne Quotes About Birth

Quotes about: Birth

• The whole life of Christ was a continual Passion; others die martyrs but Christ was born a martyr. He found a Golgotha even in Bethlehem, where he was born; for to his tenderness then the straws were almost as sharp as the thorns after, and the manger as uneasy at first as his cross at last. His birth and his death were but one continual act, and his Christmas day and his Good Friday are but the evening and morning of one and the same day. And as even his birth is his death, so every action and passage that manifests Christ to us is his birth, for Epiphany is manifestation.

  John Donne

  Friday, Morning, Passion

• Doth not a man die even in his birth? The breaking of prison is death, and what is our birth, but a breaking of prison?

  John Donne

  Death, Men, Birth

  John Donne (1839). “The works of John Donne”, p.240

• In the first minute that my soul is infused, the Image of God is imprinted in my soul; so forward is God in my behalf, and so early does he visit me.

  John Donne

  Soul, Doe, Firsts

  John Donne (1839). “The works of John Donne. With a memoir by H. Alford”, p.319

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