Gerard Manley Hopkins Quotes About Christ

Quotes about: Christ

• I am all at once what Christ is, ' since he was what I am, and This Jack, joke, poor potsherd, ' patch, matchwood, immortal diamond, Is immortal diamond.

  Gerard Manley Hopkins

  Christ, Poor, Patches

  'That Nature is a Heraclitean Fire' (written 1888)

• What is all this juice and all this joy?
  A strain of the earth's sweet being in the beginning
  In Eden garden.-Have, get, before it cloy,
  Before it cloud, Christ, lord, and sour with sinning,
  Innocent mind and Mayday in girl and boy,
  Most, O maid's child, thy choice and worthy the winning.

  Gerard Manley Hopkins

  Girl, Sweet, Children

  Gerard Manley Hopkins (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Gerard Manley Hopkins (Illustrated)”, p.1887, Delphi Classics

• For Christ plays in ten thousand places,/ Lovely in limbs, and lovely in eyes not his/ To the Father through the features of men’s faces.

  Gerard Manley Hopkins

  Father, Eye, Men

  Gerard Manley Hopkins, Bob Blaisdell (2011). “Selected Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins”, p.46, Courier Corporation

• For myself I make no secret, I look forward with eager desire to seeing the matchless beauty of Christ's body in the heavenly light.

  Gerard Manley Hopkins

  Light, Secret, Desire

  Gerard Manley Hopkins (2004). “Hopkins: The Mystic Poets”, p.22, SkyLight Paths Publishing

• Our Lord Jesus Christ , my brethren, is our hero, a hero all the world wants.

  Gerard Manley Hopkins

  Jesus, Hero, World

  Gerard Manley Hopkins (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Gerard Manley Hopkins (Illustrated)”, p.114, Delphi Classics

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