John Keble

“Sun of my soul, Thou Saviour dear, It is not night if Thou be near.”

“New every morning is the love our wakening and uprising prove.”

“He who loves God, loves all things in God.”

“We cannot kindle when we will The fire which in the heart resides.”

“We need not bid, for cloister'd cell, Our neighbour and our work farewell, Nor strive to wind ourselves too high For sinful man beneath the sky.”

“The trivial round, the common task, would furnish all we need to ask.”

“When God afflicts thee, think He hews a rugged stone which must be shaped, or else remain useless for eternity.”

“'Tis sweet, as year by year we lose friends out of sight, in faith to muse how grows in Paradise our store.”

“Two worlds are ours: 'tis only sin forbids us to descry the mystic heaven and earth within, plain as the sea and sky.”

“Every deed of love is a prayer.”

“God's Own Book! O may I still love Thee more and more.”

“Every day is a little life: and our whole life is but a day repeated.”

“If the Church of England were to be invisible, it should be found in my parish.”