Robert Southwell Quotes

God gave Himself to you: give yourself to God.

Not where I breathe, but where I love, I live.

When Fortune smiles, I smile to think how quickly she will frown.

The saddest birds a season find to sing,The roughest storm a calm may soon allay;Thus with succeeding turns God tempereth all,That men may hope to rise yet fear to fall.

I feel no care of coin,Well-doing is my wealth;My mind to me an empire is,While grace affordeth health.

My mind to me an empire is.

Lingering labors come to naught.

Hoist up sail while gale doth last, Tide and wind stay no man's pleasure.

Man's mind a mirror is of heavenly sights,A brief wherein all marvels summèd lie,Of fairest forms and sweetest shapes the store,Most graceful all, yet thought may grace them more.

No joy so great but runneth to an end,No hap so hard but may in fine amend.

Times go by turns, and chances change by course, from foul to fair, from better hap to worse.

I wealthiest am when richest in remorse.

Where sin was hatch'd, let tears now wash the nest, Where life was lost, recover life with cries.

What thought can think, another thought can mend.

Few have all they need, none all they wish.

Christianity is warfare, and Christians are spiritualsoldiers.

Behold a silly tender babe,In freezing winter night,In homely manger trembling lies;Alas! a piteous sight.

Plough not the seas, sow not the sands,Leave off your idle pain;Seek other mistress for your minds,Love's service is in vain.