The world is charged with the grandeur of God. It will flame out like shining from shook foil? Generations have trod, have trod, have trod; And all is seared with trade; bleared, smeared with toil; And wearsman'ssmudgeand sharesman'ssmell: thesoil Is bare now, nor can foot feel, being shod.

Gerard Manley Hopkins

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Your personal boundaries protect the inner core of your identity and your right to choices.

Gerard Manley Hopkins

choices identity boundaries

Nothing is so beautiful as spring- When weeds in wheels, shoot long and lovely and lush.

Gerard Manley Hopkins

weed spring beautiful

The world is charged with the grandeur of God.

Gerard Manley Hopkins

grandeur world

All the world is full of inscape and chance left free to act falls into an order as well as purpose.

Gerard Manley Hopkins

purpose order fall

Glory be to God for dappled things-

Gerard Manley Hopkins

couple sweet life

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.

Gerard Manley Hopkins

prayer men mean

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.

Gerard Manley Hopkins

despair wish men

ELECTED Silence, sing to me And beat upon my whorlèd ear, Pipe me to pastures still and be The music that I care to hear.

Gerard Manley Hopkins

music silence ears

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

eye men father

When a man is in God's grace and free from mortal sin, then everything that he does, so long as there is no sin in it, gives God glory and what does not give him glory has some, however little, sin in it. 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

horse wall prayer

Let Him easter in us, be a dayspring to the dimness of us, be a crimson-cresseted east.

Gerard Manley Hopkins

crimson east easter

What I do is me, for that I came.

Gerard Manley Hopkins

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

Gerard Manley Hopkins

giver self giving

That piecemeal peace is poor peace. What pure peace allows

Gerard Manley Hopkins

alarms war peace

O the mind, mind has mountains; cliffs of fall Frightful, sheer, no-man-fathomed. Hold them cheap May who ne'er hung there. Nor does long our small Durance deal with that steep or deep.

Gerard Manley Hopkins

men long fall

I have desired to go

Gerard Manley Hopkins

lilies blow spring

Look at the stars! Look, look up at the skies! Oh look at all the fire-folk sitting in the air! The bright boroughs, the circle-citadels there!

Gerard Manley Hopkins

stars nature fire

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

Gerard Manley Hopkins

rounds mercy air

Nothing is so beautiful as spring- When weeds, in wheels, shoot long and lovely and lush; Thrush's eggs look little low heavens, and thrush Through the echoing timber does so rinse and wring The ear, it strikes like lightnings to hear him sing; The glassy peartree leaves and blooms, they brush The descending blue; that blue is all in a rush With richness; the racing lambs too have fair their fling. What is all this juice and all this joy? A strain of the earth's sweet being in the beginning In Eden garden.-Have, get, before it cloy.

Gerard Manley Hopkins

weed beautiful sweet

Glory be to God for dappled things.

Gerard Manley Hopkins

moles trout glory