Robert Southwell: Quotes about God

Robert Southwell was English Jesuit. Explore interesting quotes on god.
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“Grant me grace, O God! that I
My life may mend, sith I must die.”

Robert Southwell

Source: Upon the Image of Death, Line 53; p. 138.

Life , God

“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.”

Robert Southwell

Source: Times Go by Turns, Line 15; p. 47.

Men , God , Fear , Hope

“In Aman's pomp poor Mardocheus wept,
Yet God did turn his fate upon his foe;
The Lazar pined while Dives' feast was kept,
Yet he to heaven, to hell did Dives go.
We trample grass and prize the flowers of May,
Yet grass is green when flowers do fade away.”

Robert Southwell

"Scorn not the Least", line 19; p. 54.

God , Fate , Flowers , Hell