My faultless breast the furnace is, the fuel wounding thorns;Love is the fire and sighs the smoke, the ashes shame and scorns;The fuel Justice layeth on, and Mercy blows the coals;The metal in this furnace wrought are men's defiled souls.
God gave Himself to you: give yourself to God. - Robert Southwell
God gave Himself to you: give yourself to God.
- Robert Southwell
Shun delays, they breed remorse;Take thy time while time is lent thee;Creeping snails have weakest force,Fly their fault lest thou repent thee.Good i… - Robert Southwell
Shun delays, they breed remorse;Take thy time while time is lent thee;Creeping snails have weakest force,Fly their fault lest thou repent thee.Good i…
I feel no care of coin,Well-doing is my wealth;My mind to me an empire is,While grace affordeth health. - Robert Southwell
I feel no care of coin,Well-doing is my wealth;My mind to me an empire is,While grace affordeth health.
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 ri… - Robert Southwell
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 ri…
My conscience is my crown,Contented thoughts my rest;My heart is happy in itself,My bliss is in my breast.Enough I reckon wealth;A mean the surest lo… - Robert Southwell
My conscience is my crown,Contented thoughts my rest;My heart is happy in itself,My bliss is in my breast.Enough I reckon wealth;A mean the surest lo…
When Fortune smiles, I smile to think how quickly she will frown. - Robert Southwell
When Fortune smiles, I smile to think how quickly she will frown.
Not where I breathe, but where I love, I live. - Robert Southwell
Not where I breathe, but where I love, I live.
Christianity is warfare, and Christians are spiritualsoldiers. - Robert Southwell
Christianity is warfare, and Christians are spiritualsoldiers.
What thought can think, another thought can mend. - Robert Southwell
What thought can think, another thought can mend.
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