17 Gerard Manley Hopkins Quotes on Faith

Gerard Manley Hopkins quotes on faith

4. I think that the trivialness of life is, and personally to each one, ought to be seen to be, done away with by the Incarnation.

5. I am surprised you should say fancy and aesthetic tastes have led me to my present state of mind: these would be better satisfied in the Church of England, for bad taste is always meeting one in the accessories of Catholicism.

10. Our Lord Jesus Christ, my brethren, is our hero, a hero all the world wants.

11. For myself I make no secret, I look forward with eager desire to seeing the matchless beauty of Christ's body in the heavenly light.

16. You do not mean by mystery what a Catholic does. You mean an interesting uncertainty: the uncertainty ceasing, interest ceases also.... But a Catholic by mystery means an incomprehensible certainty: without certainty, without formulation there is no interest;... the clearer the formulation the greater the interest.

24. Thou mastering me God! giver of breath and bread; World's strand, sway of the sea; Lord of living and dead; Thou hast bound bones and veins in me, fastened me flesh, And after it almost unmade, what with dread, Thy doing: and dost thou touch me afresh? Over again I feel thy finger and find thee.

27. 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.

36. I walk, I lift up, I lift up heart, eyes, Down all that glory in the heavens to glean our Saviour.

52. I say that we are wound With mercy round and round As if with air.

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

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

63. I am all at once what Christ is, ' since he was what I am, and This Jack, joke, poor potsherd, ' patch, matchwood, immortal diamond, Is immortal diamond.

64. Thou art indeed just, Lord, if I contend With thee; but, sir, so what I plead is just. Why do sinners' ways prosper? and why must Disappointment all I endeavour end?

65. Mine, O thou lord of life, send my roots rain.

67. The best ideal is the true And other truth is none. All glory be ascribed to The holy Three in One.

68. He is so great that all things give him glory if you mean they should. So then, my brethren, live.

70. 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.