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Gerard Manley Hopkins was an English poet known for his unique poetic style and profound religious themes. His work was not widely recognized during his lifetime but gained recognition after his death.

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Famous Gerard Manley Hopkins Quotes

“God?is so great that all things give him glory if you mean they should.”

Ifs Giving Should Mean Glory All Things

Author:Gerard Manley Hopkins

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

Giving Self Giver

Book:Selected Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins

Source: Selected Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins

“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, madefor--things that give and mean to give God glory.”

Giving Mean Minutes Glory Praise Bless Sunlight

Book:The note-books and papers of Gerard Manley Hopkins

Source: The note-books and papers of Gerard Manley Hopkins

“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.”

Ifs Giving Fire Flow All Things Rings Yield Sparks

Book:Landscape and inscape: vision and inspiration in Hopkins's poetry

Source: Landscape and inscape: vision and inspiration in Hopkins's poetry

“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.”

Ifs Men Giving Should Mean Hands Prayer Glory All Things Lifts

Author:Gerard Manley Hopkins

“Time has three dimensions and one positive pitch or direction. It is therefore not so much like any river or any sea as like the Sea of Galilee, which has the Jordan running through it and giving a current to the whole.”

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Author:Gerard Manley Hopkins

“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.”

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Author:Gerard Manley Hopkins

About the Author

Born: July 28, 1844
Died: June 8, 1889
Known for: Poet
Quotes: 94

Books & Sources

Delphi Complete Works of Gerard Manley Hopkins (Illustrated)Related source material

Selected Poems of Gerard Manley HopkinsRelated source material

The Poems of Gerard Manley HopkinsRelated source material

God's GrandeurRelated source material

Hopkins: The Mystic PoetsRelated source material

Poems and proseRelated source material

Poems of Gerard Manley HopkinsRelated source material

Selected LettersRelated source material

A Hopkins reader: selectionsRelated source material

The note-books and papers of Gerard Manley HopkinsRelated source material

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