Gerard Manley Hopkins Quotes About Giving

Quotes about: Giving

• Time has three dimensions and one positive pitch or direction. It is therefore not so much like any river or any sea as like the Sea of Galilee, which has the Jordan running through it and giving a current to the whole.

  Gerard Manley Hopkins

  Running, Time, Sea

  1881 'Creation and Redemption: The Great Sacrifice'. Collected in C Devlin (ed) The Sermons and Devotional Writings of Gerard Manley Hopkins (1959), ch.8.

• All things therefore are charged with love, are charged with God and if we knew how to touch them give off sparks and take fire, yield drops and flow, ring and tell of him.

  Gerard Manley Hopkins

  Fire, Yield, Giving

  Peter Milward, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Raymond V. Schoder (1975). “Landscape and inscape: vision and inspiration in Hopkins's poetry”, Elektrohas

• To lift up the hands in prayer gives God glory, but a man with a dungfork in his hand, a woman with a slop pail, give Him glory, too. God is so great that all things give Him glory if you mean that they should.

  Gerard Manley Hopkins

  Prayer, Mean, Men

• When a man is in God's grace and free from mortal sin, then everything that he does, so long as there is no sin in it, gives God glory and what does not give him glory has some, however little, sin in it. It is not only prayer that gives God glory but work. Smiting on an anvil, sawing a beam, whitewashing a wall, driving horses, sweeping, scouring, everything gives God some glory if being in his grace you do it as your duty.

  Gerard Manley Hopkins

  Horse, Prayer, Wall

  "Poems and Prose".

• God?is so great that all things give him glory if you mean they should.

  Gerard Manley Hopkins

  Mean, Giving, Glory

  1882 'The Principle or Foundation', closing words. Collected in G Roberts (ed) Gerard Manley Hopkins. Selected Prose (1980).

• Give beauty back, beauty, beauty, beauty, back to God, beauty's self and beauty's giver.

  Gerard Manley Hopkins

  Self, Giving, Giver

  Gerard Manley Hopkins (2013). “Selected Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins”, p.48, Courier Corporation

• Any day, any minute we bless God for our being or for anything, for food, for sunlight, we do and are what we were meant for, madefor--things that give and mean to give God glory.

  Gerard Manley Hopkins

  Mean, Giving, Praise

  Gerard Manley Hopkins (1937). “The note-books and papers of Gerard Manley Hopkins”

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