Richard Lovelace Quotes

Stone walls do not a prison make,
nor iron bars a cage.

It is an item of faith that we are children of God;
there is plenty of experience in us against it.
The faith that surmounts this evidence and is able to warm itself at the fire of God's love,
instead of having to steal love and self-acceptance from other sources,
is actually the root of holiness: It is a fatal mistake to think of holiness as a possession which we have distinct from our faith...
Faith is the very highest form of our dependence on God.

It is my assumption that growth in faith is the root of all spiritual growth and is prior to all disciplines of works.
True spirituality is not a superhuman religiosity;
it is simply true humanity released from bondage to sin and renewed by the Holy Spirit.
This is given to us as we grasp by faith the full content of Christ's redemptive work: freedom from the guilt and power of sin,
and newness of life through the indwelling and outpouring of his Spirit.

Stone walls do not a prison make,
nor iron bars a cage. Minds innocent and quiet take that for a hermitage: If I have freedom in my love,
and in my Soul I am free, Angels alone,
that soar above,
enjoy such liberty.

As pain tells us of the need for healing,
worry tells us of the need for prayer.

If our hearts and minds are not properly transformed,
we are like musicians playing untuned instruments,
or engineers working with broken and ill-programmed computers.
The attunement of the heart is essential to the outflow of grace...We must aim at building the structures of God's kingdom but recognized that we will only create these through the transformation of our experience.
Concentration on reformation without revival leads to skins without wine;
concentration on revival without reformation soon loses the wine for want of skins.

I could not love thee,
dear,
so much,
loved I not Honor more.

Revival is an infusion of new spiritual life imparted by the Holy Spirit to existing parts of Christ's body.

Forbear,
thou great good husband,
little ant.

Those glories come too late That on our ashes wait.

The asp doth on his feeder feed.

When thirsty grief in wine we steep,
When healths and draughts go free,
Fishes,
that tipple in the deep,
Know no such liberty.

Fishes that tipple in the deep,
Know no such liberty.

The goal of revival is conformity to the image of Christ,
not imitation of animals.