John Milton Quotes

I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race where that immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat.

Our torments also may in length of time
Become our Elements.

So dear I love him, that with him all deaths I could endure, without him live no life.

Freely we serve,
Because we freely love,as in our will
To love or not;in this we stand or fall.

What in me is dark
Illumine, what is low raise and support,
That to the height of this great argument
I may assert eternal Providence,
And justify the ways of God to men. 1
Paradise Lost. Book i. Line 22.

They who have put out the people's eyes reproach them of their blindness.

Be strong, live happy and love, but first of all
Him whom to love is to obey, and keep
His great command!

Is it true, O Christ in heaven, that the highest suffer the most?
That the strongest wander furthest and most hopelessly are lost?
That the mark of rank in nature is capacity for pain?
That the anguish of the singer makes the sweetness of the strain?

Gratitude bestows reverence.....changing forever how we experience life and the world.

They also serve who only stand and wait.

Neither man nor angel can discern hypocrisy, the only evil that walks invisible except to God alone.

So farewell hope, and with hope farewell fear, Farewell remorse: all good to me is lost; Evil, be thou my good.

To be weak is miserable,
Doing or suffering.

Here at last
We shall be free;
the Almighty hath not built
Here for his envy, will not drive us hence:
Here we may reign secure, and in my choice
To reign is worth ambition though in Hell:
Better to reign in Hell, than serve in Heaven.

Of man's first disobedience, and the fruit/Of that forbidden tree, whose mortal taste/Brought death into the world, and all our woe,/With loss of Eden, till one greater Man/Restore us, and regain the blissful seat,/Sing heavenly muse