Gerard Manley Hopkins Quotes

The world is charged with the grandeur of God.

What would the world be, once bereft Of wet and of wildness? Let them be left, O let them be left, wildness and wet; Long live the weeds and the wilderness yet.

Let Him easter in us, be a dayspring to the dimness of us, be a crimson-cresseted east.

NOT, I'll not, carrion comfort, Despair, not feast on thee; Not untwist"”slack they may be"”these last strands of man In me ór, most weary, cry I can no more. I can; Can something, hope, wish day come, not choose not to be.

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.

Nothing is so beautiful as spring- When weeds in wheels, shoot long and lovely and lush;...

What I do is me, for that I came.

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.

ELECTED Silence, sing to me And beat upon my whorlèd ear, Pipe me to pastures still and be The music that I care to hear.

The Best ideal is the true and other truth is none. All glory be ascribed to the holy Three in One.