Gerard Manley Hopkins Quotes

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.

The world is charged with the grandeur of God.

All things therefore are charged with love, are charged with God and if we knew how to touch them give off sparks and take fire, yield drops and flow, ring and tell of him.

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.

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.

O the mind, mind has mountains; cliffs of fall
Frightful, sheer, no-man-fathomed.

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

The effect of studying masterpieces is to make me admire and do otherwise. So it must be on every original artist to some degree, on me to a marked degree.
(from notes on 'Heraclitean Fire')

And when Peace here does house
He comes with work to do, he does not come to coo,
He comes to brood and sit.