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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?

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?

Gerard Manley Hopkins
Art, Disappointment, Way
'Thou art indeed just, Lord' (written 1889)

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.

Gerard Manley Hopkins
Running, Time, Sea
1881 'Creation and Redemption: The Great Sacrifice'. Collected in C Devlin (ed) The Sermons and Devotional Writings of Gerard Manley Hopkins (1959), ch.8.

Birds buildbut not I build; no, but strain, Time's eunuch, and not breed one work that wakes. Mine,O thou lord of life, send my roots rain.

Gerard Manley Hopkins
Time, Rain, Roots
'Thou art indeed just, Lord' (written 1889)

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

Gerard Manley Hopkins
Mean, Giving, Glory
1882 'The Principle or Foundation', closing words. Collected in G Roberts (ed) Gerard Manley Hopkins. Selected Prose (1980).

Because the Holy Ghost over the bent World broods with warm breast and with ah! bright wings.

Gerard Manley Hopkins
Wings, World, Ghost
'God's Grandeur' (written 1877)

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.

Gerard Manley Hopkins
Thinking, Done, Life Is
Gerard Manley Hopkins (1954). “Poems and prose”

I awoke in the Midsummer not-to-call night, in the white and the walk of the morning

Gerard Manley Hopkins
Morning, Night, White
Gerard Manley Hopkins (2009). “Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins”, p.124, ReadHowYouWant.com

For human nature, being more highly pitched, selved, and distinctive than anything in the world, can have been developed, evolved,condensed, from the vastness of the world not anyhow or by the working of common powers but only by one of finer or higher pitch and determination than itself.

Gerard Manley Hopkins
Determination, Self, World
Gerard Manley Hopkins (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Gerard Manley Hopkins (Illustrated)”, p.1880, Delphi Classics

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.

Gerard Manley Hopkins
Mean, Interesting, Catholic
Gerard Manley Hopkins (1966). “A Hopkins reader: selections”

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.

Gerard Manley Hopkins
Greatness, Flames, Oil
Gerard Manley Hopkins (1995). “"God's Grandeur" and Other Poems”, p.15, Courier Corporation

It is a happy thing that there is no royal road to poetry. The world should know by this time that one cannot reach Parnassus except by flying thither.

Gerard Manley Hopkins
Flying, World, Royal
Gerard Manley Hopkins (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Gerard Manley Hopkins (Illustrated)”, p.1864, Delphi Classics

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