John Milton Quotes, Religious Quotes, Eye Quotes

And storied windows richly dight, Casting a dim religious light. There let the pealing organ blow, To the full-voiced choir below, In service high, and anthems clear As may, with sweetness, through mine ear Dissolve me into ecstasies, And bring all heaven before mine eyes.

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Nothing is here for tears, nothing to wail Or knock the breast, no weakness, no contempt, Dispraise, or blame,-nothing but well and fair, And what may quiet us in a death so noble.

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Revenge, at first though sweet, Bitter ere long back on itself recoils.

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Govern well thy appetite, lest Sin surprise thee, and her black attendant Death.

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If there be any difference among professed believers as to the sense of Scripture, it is their duty to tolerate such difference in each other, until God shall have revealed the truth to all.

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O shame to men! Devil with devil damned Firm concord holds, men only disagree Of creatures rational, though under hope Of heavenly grace: and God proclaiming peace, Yet live in hatred, enmity, and strife Among themselves, and levy cruel wars, Wasting the earth, each other to destroy: As if (which might induce us to accord) Man had not hellish foes enough besides, That day and night for his destruction wait.

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The greatest burden in the world is superstition, not only of ceremonies in the church, but of imaginary and scarecrow sins at home.

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No man who knows aught, can be so stupid to deny that all men naturally were born free.

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Assuredly we bring not innocence not the world, we bring impurity much rather: that which purifies us is trial, and trial is by what is contrary.

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Virtue could see to do what Virtue would by her own radiant light, though sun and moon where in the flat sea sunk.

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He touch'd the tender stops of various quills, With eager thought warbling his Doric lay.

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Live while ye may, Yet happy pair.

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Fairy damsels met in forest wide / By knights of Logres, or of Lyones, / Lancelot or Pelleas, or Pellenore.

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Long is the way and hard, that out of hell leads up to light.

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With thee goes Thy husband, him to follow thou art bound; Where he abides, think there thy native soil.

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All hope is lost of my reception into grace; what worse? For where no hope is left, is left no fear.

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Evil, be thou my good.

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He that hath light within their own breast, may sit in the centre and enjoy bright day.

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Who would not, finding way, break loose from hell, . . . . And boldly venture to whatever place Farthest from pain?

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Loneliness is the first thing which God's eye named not good.

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