Gerard Manley Hopkins Quotes on Prayer
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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.
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I walk, I lift up, I lift up heart, eyes, Down all that glory in the heavens to glean our Saviour.
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That night, that year Of now done darkness I wretch lay wrestling with (my God!) my God.
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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?
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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.