John Donne Quotes About Christ

Quotes about: Christ

• Love is strong as death; but nothing else is as strong as either; and both, love and death, met in Christ. How strong and powerful upon you, then, should that instruction be, that comes to you from both these, the love and death of Jesus Christ!

  John Donne

  Love, Jesus, Strong

  John Donne (1839). “The Works of John Donne: Sermons. Devotions upon emergent occasions”, p.18

• 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

• Great sins are great possessions; but levities and vanities possess us too; and men had rather part with Christ than with any possession.

  John Donne

  Men, Vanity, Sin

• Christ beats his drum, but he does not press men; Christ is served with voluntaries.

  John Donne

  Christian, Jesus, Men

  John Donne, David Colclough (2013). “The Oxford Edition of the Sermons of John Donne: Volume 3: Sermons Preached at the Court of Charles I”, p.68, Oxford University Press

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