Gerard Manley Hopkins: Quotes about God

Gerard Manley Hopkins was English poet. Explore interesting quotes on god.

Gerard Manley Hopkins: 162 quotes5 likes

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

Gerard Manley Hopkins

"The Leaden Echo and the Golden Echo: The Golden Echo, line 19
Wessex Poems and Other Verses (1918)

“Glory be to God for dappled things—
For skies of couple-colour as a brinded cow;
For rose-moles all in stipple upon trout that swim.”

Gerard Manley Hopkins

" Pied Beauty http://www.bartleby.com/122/13.html", lines 1-3 <br class="br">Wessex Poems and Other Verses (1918)

“I say more, the just man justices;
Keeps grace: that keeps all his goings graces;
Acts in God's eye what in God's eye he is —
Christ — 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

"As Kingfishers Catch Fire, Dragonflies Draw Flame" (undated poem, c. March - April 1877)

“The world is charged with the grandeur of God.
It will flame out, like shining from shook foil;
It gathers to a greatness, like the ooze of oil
Crushed.”

Gerard Manley Hopkins

" God's Grandeur http://www.bartleby.com/122/7.html", lines 1-4 <br class="br">Wessex Poems and Other Verses (1918)

“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, made for — things that give and mean to give God glory.”

Gerard Manley Hopkins

The Principle or Foundation

“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

The Principle or Foundation

“That night, that year
Of now done darkness I wretch lay wrestling with (my God!) my God.”

Gerard Manley Hopkins

"Carrion Comfort", lines 13-14
Wessex Poems and Other Verses (1918)

“I am gall, I am heartburn. God's most deep decree
Bitter would have me taste: my taste was me;
Bones built in me, flesh filled, blood brimmed the curse.
Selfyeast of spirit a dull dough sours. I see
The lost are like this, and their scourge to be
As I am mine, their sweating selves; but worse.”

Gerard Manley Hopkins

"I Wake and Feel the Fell of Dark, Not Day", lines 9-14
Wessex Poems and Other Verses (1918)

“That is the great end of empires before God, to be Catholic and draw nations into their Catholicism. But our empire is less and less Christian as it grows.”

Gerard Manley Hopkins

Letter to Coventry Patmore (4 June 1886)
Letters, etc

“On this day by God's grace I resolved to give up all beauty until I had His leave for it.”

Gerard Manley Hopkins

Journal entry (6 November 1865), as reported in In Extremity: A Study of Gerard Manley Hopkins (1978) by John Robinson, p. 1