Christina Rossetti Quotes

Poetry is the establishment of a metaphorical link between white butterfly-wings and the scraps of torn-up love-letters.

Faith is what gets you started. Hope is what keeps you going. Love is what brings you to the end.

That all things are possible to him who believes, that they are less difficult to him who hopes, they are more easy to him who loves, and still more easy to him who perseveres in the practice of these three virtues.

Many things are possible for the person who has hope. Even more is possible for the person who has faith. And still more is possible for the person who knows how to love. But everything is possible for the person who practices all three virtues.

Love is the hardest lesson in Christianity; but, for that reason, it should be most our care to learn it.

I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.

Love is the only game that is not called on account of darkness.

Love is never defeated, and I could add, the history of Ireland proves it.

Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.

Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings.

But groundless hope, like unconditional love, is the only kind worth having.

One of the themes in my novels is that our crises can turn into blessings. We can feel like our world has crumbled, but ten years down the road when we look back on that time, we can see God's hand at work. I love writing that theme into my books.

Sometimes it looks like God's abandoned you, but not for any reason. To make your faith grow and to see that, no matter what happens, you come out OK... It's all for your good. It's all for love, and it's all for making you a strong person.

Love is a fickle thing. But I still believe in it.

We can live tough lives, but the human spirit is stronger, seemingly, than anything. There is redemption, hope, and love. All different forms of heartbreak, but beyond all that there is hope, there is love. There is beauty and bliss.

Love is the gentle smile upon the lips of beauty.

Our love is like a red, red rose... and I am a little thorny.

Faith is like a lily, lifted high and white.

Love is the lotus, lust is the mud the lotus arises out of.

Show a little faith there is magic in the night. You ain't a beauty, but hey you're alright, and that's alright with me.

Live for today, but hold your hands open to tomorrow. Anticipate the future and its changes with joy. There is a seed of God's love in every event, every unpleasant situation in which you may find yourself.

We saw too much beauty to be cynical, felt too much joy to be dismissive, climbed too many mountains to be quitters, kissed too many girls to be deceivers, saw too many sunrises not to be believers, broke too many strings to be pro's and gave too much love to be concerned where it goes.

Beyond the pain, life continues to be sweet. The basics are still there. Beauty, food and friendship, reservoirs of love and understanding. Later, possibly not yet, you are going to need others who will encourage you to make new beginnings. Welcome them. They will help you move on, to cherish happy memories and confront the painful ones with more than bitterness and anger.

Love is faith's flower, hope is its stem. Grace comes into us by faith, like water through the roots of a tree. It rises in us by hope, like sap rising through the trunk of a tree. And it matures in us by [love] as fruit matures on a tree's branches, fruit for the neighbor's eating.