John Keble Quotes

John Keble was an English churchman and poet, one of the leaders of the Oxford Movement. Keble College, Oxford, was named after him. Wikipedia  

✵ 25. April 1792 – 29. March 1866
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Famous John Keble Quotes

“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 book The Christian Year

The Christian Year. Twenty-fourth Sunday after Trinity reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

“Abide with me from morn til eve,
For without Thee I cannot live;
Abide with me when night is nigh,
For without Thee I dare not die.”

John Keble

Evening reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

“Sun of my soul, Thou Saviour dear,
It is not night if Thou be near;
Oh, may no earth-born cloud arise
To hide Thee from Thy servant's eyes.”

John Keble

Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 90.

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

John Keble

Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 182.

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

John Keble

Morning reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

“T is sweet, as year by year we lose
Friends out of sight, in faith to muse
How grows in Paradise our store.”

John Keble

Burial of the Dead reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

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