Christina Rossetti Quotes

Can anything be sadder than work left unfinished? Yes, work never begun.

What are heavy? sea-sand and sorrow. What are brief? today and tomorrow. What are frail? spring blossoms and youth. What are deep? the ocean and truth.

Silence is more musical than any song.

What is the beginning? Love. What is the course. Love still. What the goal. The goal is love.

Choose love not in the shallows but in the deep.

For there is no friend like a sister in calm or stormy weather; To cheer one on the tedious way, to fetch one if one goes astray, to lift one if one totters down, to strengthen whilst one stands.

Obedience is the fruit of faith.

Tread softly! All the earth is holy ground.

Better by far you should forget and smile than that you should remember and be sad.

What can I give Him, Poor as I am? If I were a shepherd I would bring a lamb. If I were a Wise Man I would do my part. Yet what can I give Him? I give Him my heart.

The downhill path is easy, but there's no turning back.

Obedience is the fruit of faith; patience is the early blossom on the tree of faith.

Flowers preach to us if we will hear.

Remember me when I am gone away, Gone far away into the silent land; When you can no more hold me by the hand, Nor I half turn to go yet turning stay. Remember me when no more day by day You tell me of our future that you planned: Only remember me; you understand It will be late to counsel then or pray. Yet if you should forget me for a while And afterward remember, do not grieve: For if the darkness and corruption leave A vestige of the thoughts that once I had, Better by far you should forget and smile Than that you should remember and be sad.

Open wide the windows of our spirits and fill us full of light; open wide the door of our hearts, that we may receive and entertain Thee with all our powers of adoration.

My life is like a faded leaf, My harvest dwindled to a husk: Truly my life is void and brief And tedious in the barren dusk; My life is like a frozen thing, No bud nor greenness can I see: Yet rise it shall - the sap of Spring; O Jesus, rise in me.

Good deeds are many, but good lives are few.

Remember me when I am gone away, gone far away into the silent land.

I have a room whereinto no one enters Save I myself alone: There sits a blessed memory on a throne, There my life centres.

Were there no God, we would be in this glorious world with grateful hearts, and no one to thank.

Come to me in the silence of the night, Come to me in the speaking silence of a dream. Come with soft rounded cheeks and eyes as bright as sunlight on a stream. Come back in tears, O memory, hope, love of finished years.

Spring is when life's alive in everything.

The loves that meet in Paradise shall cast out fear, And Paradise hath room for you and me and all.

One day in the country Is worth a month in town

Love shall be our token; love be yours and love be mine.