Richard Lovelace

Richard Lovelace
Richard Lovelacewas an English poet in the seventeenth century. He was a cavalier poet who fought on behalf of the king during the Civil War. His best known works are "To Althea, from Prison," and "To Lucasta, Going to the Warres."...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth6 June 1908
arms quiet thy war
Tell me not, Sweet, I am unkind, / That from the nunnery / Of thy chaste breast, and quiet mind, / To war and arms I fly.
broken floor lay paved saw
And when she ceased, we sighing saw / The floor lay paved with broken hearts.
wall angel iron
Stone walls do not a prison make, nor iron bars a cage.
spiritual roots discipline
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.
pain prayer healing
As pain tells us of the need for healing, worry tells us of the need for prayer.
honor thee dear
I could not love thee, dear, so much, loved I not Honor more.
heart wine broken
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.
spiritual body christ
Revival is an infusion of new spiritual life imparted by the Holy Spirit to existing parts of Christ's body.
liberty fishes knows
Fishes that tipple in the deep, Know no such liberty.