John Keble Quotes

• Peace is the first thing the angels sang.

  John Keble

  Peace, Angel, Firsts

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• And help us, this and every day, to live more nearly as we pray.

  John Keble

  Prayer, Helping, Praying

  John Keble (1829). “The Christian year, thoughts in verse for the Sundays and holydays throughout the year [by J. Keble].”, p.4

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• When you find yourself overpowered, as it were, by melancholy, the best way is to go out and do something.

  John Keble

  Finding Yourself, Way, Self Pity

  John Keble (1870). “Letters of Spiritual Counsel and Guidance”, p.6

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• If the Church of England were to fail, it would be found in my parish

  John Keble

  Church, England, Would Be

  In D. Newsome 'The Parting of Friends' (1966) p. 395

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• Give us grace to listen well.

  John Keble

  Giving, Grace, Listening

  John Keble (1850). “The Christian year ... By John Keble. Thirty-seventh edition”, p.64

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• Once you make up your mind never to stand waiting and hesitating when your conscience tells you what you ought to do, and you have got the key to every blessing that a sinner can reasonably hope for.

  John Keble

  Blessing, Keys, Waiting

  John Keble (1880). “Sermons for the Christian year”

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• Blest are the pure in heart, for they shall see our God. The secret of the Lord is theirs; Their soul is Christ's abode.

  John Keble

  Heart, Soul, Secret

  John Keble (1850). “The Christian year ... By John Keble. Thirty-seventh edition”, p.166

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• Abide with me from morn to eve, / For without Thee I cannot live: / Abide with me when night is nigh. / For without Thee I dare not die.

  John Keble

  Night, Abiding, Thee

  John Keble (1866). “The Christian Year ... [By John Keble.] Hundredth Edition”, p.5, Ccel

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• Sun of my soul! Thou Saviour dear, It is not night if Thou be near.

  John Keble

  Jesus, Night, Soul

  John Keble (1842). “The Christian year [by J. Keble, ed. by G.W. Doane]. 1st Amer. ed. 3rd Amer. ed”, p.20

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• New every morning is the love Our waking and uprising prove, Through sleep and darkness safely brought, Restored to life and power and thought.

  John Keble

  Life, Morning, Sleep

  John Keble, “Morning”

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• God hath sworn to lift on high Who sinks himself by true humility.

  John Keble

  Humility, Lifts, True Humility

  John Keble, G. M., George MOBERLY (Bishop of Salisbury.) (1869). “Miscellaneous poems ... Second edition. [The preface signed: G. M., i.e. George Moberly.]”, p.205

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• Sweet is the smile of home; the mutual look when hearts are of each other sure.

  John Keble

  Sweet, Home, Heart

  John Keble (1850). “The Christian year ... By John Keble. Thirty-seventh edition”, p.53

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• For as fire is kindled by fire, so is a poet's mind kindled by contact with a brother poet.

  John Keble

  Brother, Fire, Mind

  "Aesthetics and religion in nineteenth-century Britain".

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• The deeds we do, the words we say,Into still air they seem to fleet;We count them ever past;But they shall last -In the dread judgment theyAnd we shall meet.

  John Keble

  Past, Air, Deeds

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• When the shore is won at last, Who will count the billow past?

  John Keble

  Success, Past, Lasts

  John Keble (1858). “The Christian year, thoughts in verse for the Sundays and holydays throughout the year [by J. Keble]. [Another]”, p.29

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• Sun of my soul, thou Savior dear, It is not night if thou be near. Oh, may no earthborn cloud arise To hide thee from thy servant's eyes.

  John Keble

  Eye, Night, Clouds

  John Keble, “Sun Of My Soul”

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• Why should we faint and fear to live alone,Since all alone, so Heaven has willed, we die?Nor even the tenderest heart, and next our own,Knows half the reasons why we smile and sigh.

  John Keble

  Heart, Heaven, Solitude

  John Keble (1874). “The Christian Year: Thoughts in Verse for the Sundays and Holydays Throughout the Year”, p.185

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• Love masters agony; the soul that seemed
  Forsaken feels her present God again
  And in her Father's arms
  Contented dies away.

  John Keble

  Death, Father, Agony

  John Keble (1874). “The Christian Year: Thoughts in Verse for the Sundays and Holydays Throughout the Year”, p.82

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• The trivial round, the common task,Would furnish all we ought to ask.

  John Keble

  Tasks, Common, Ought

  The Christian Year "Morning" (1827)

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• Soft as Memnon's harp at morning, To the inward ear devout, Touched by light, with heavenly warning Your transporting chords ring out. Every leaf in every nook, Every wave in every brook, Chanting with a solemn voice Minds us of our better choice.

  John Keble

  Morning, Voice, Light

  John Keble (1829). “The Christian year, thoughts in verse for the Sundays and holydays throughout the year [by J. Keble].”, p.52

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• Time's waters will not ebb nor stay.

  John Keble

  Time, Water

  John Keble (1828). “The Christian Year ... [By John Keble.] Fourth Edition”, p.38

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• Thou art the Sun of other days.
  They shine by giving back the rays.

  John Keble

  Easter, Art, Giving

  John Keble (1829). “The Christian year, thoughts in verse for the Sundays and holydays throughout the year [by J. Keble].”, p.130

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• Sprinkled along the waste of years Full many a soft green isle appears: Pause where we may upon the desert road, Some shelter is in sight, some sacred safe abode.

  John Keble

  Islands, Sight, Years

  John Keble (1858). “The Christian year, thoughts in verse for the Sundays and holydays throughout the year [by J. Keble]. [Another]”, p.9

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• Sweet is the infant's waking smile, And sweet the old man's rest-- But middle age by no fond wile, No soothing calm is blest.

  John Keble

  Sweet, Men, Age

  John Keble (1850). “The Christian year ... By John Keble. Thirty-seventh edition”, p.173

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• The voice that breathed o'er Eden, That earliest wedding day.

  John Keble

  Wedding, Voice, Eden

  'Holy Matrimony' (1869)

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