What I do is me, for that I came.

- Gerard Manley Hopkins

For myself I make no secret, I look forward with eager desire to seeing the matchless beauty of Christ's body in the heavenly light.

- Gerard Manley Hopkins

All the world is full of inscape and chance left free to act falls into an order as well as purpose.

- Gerard Manley Hopkins

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…

- Gerard Manley Hopkins

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

- Gerard Manley Hopkins

Your personal boundaries protect the inner core of your identity and your right to choices.

- Gerard Manley Hopkins

I do not write for the public. You are my public and I hope to convert you.

- Gerard Manley Hopkins

What are works of art for? to educate, to be standards. To produce is of little use unless what we produce is known, is widely known, the wider known…

- Gerard Manley Hopkins

What you look at hard seems to look at you.

- Gerard Manley Hopkins