Garden Quotes - Page 14

Give me the splendid, silent sun with all his beams full-dazzling.

A beginner must look on himself as one setting out to make a garden for his Lord's pleasure, on most unfruitful soil which abounds in weeds. His Majesty roots up the weeds and will put in good plants instead. Let us reckon that this is already done when the soul decides to practice prayer and has begun to do so.

And don't think the garden loses its ecstasy in winter. It's quiet, but the roots are down there riotous.

I hate roses. Don't you? It's all right if you can hide them in a cutting garden, but I think a rose garden is the height of ick.

When we see a beautiful object, a beautiful garden, or a beautiful flower, let us think that there we behold a ray of the infinite beauty of God, who has given existence to that object.

Always explore your garden and go to the market before you decide what cook.

In search of my mother's garden, I found my own.

Cultivate your garden… Do not depend upon teachers to educate you … follow your own bent, pursue your curiosity bravely, express yourself, make your own harmony… In the end, education, like happiness, is individual, and must come to us from life and from ourselves. There is no way; each pilgrim must make his own path. "Happiness," said Chamfort, "is not easily won; it is hard to find it in ourselves, and impossible to find it elsewhere.

Footfalls echo in the memory, down the passage we did not take, towards the door we never opened, into the rose garden.

I bought an ant farm. I don't know where I am going to get a tractor that small!

Working in the garden . . . gives me a profound feeling of inner peace. Nothing here is in a hurry. There is no rush toward accomplishment, no blowing of trumpets. Here is the great mystery of life and growth. Everything is changing, growing, aiming at something, but silently, unboastfully, taking its time.

Loving behavior contributes to the group at the expense of the individual. Competition contributes to the survival of the individual at the expense of the group. In the garden of life, some people are more like flowers, and other people are more like weeds.

Did you ever think how a bit of land shows the character of the owner?

This is the centre of the gospel - this is what the Garden of Gethsemane and Good Friday are all about - that God has done astonishing and costly things to draw us near.

Man's mind may be likened to a garden, which may be intelligently cultivated or allowed to run wild.

My request is not for bliss of the Garden. I only desire to see You.

But I was in search of love in those days, and I went full of curiosity and the faint, unrecognized apprehension that here, at last, I should find that low door in the wall, which others, I knew, had found before me, which opened on an enclosed and enchanted garden, which was somewhere, not overlooked by any window, in the heart of that grey city.

Though snails are exceedingly slow, There is one thing I'd like to know. If I out run 'em round the yard, How come they beat me to the chard?

White rose in red rose-garden Is not so white; Snowdrops, that plead for pardon And pine for fright Because the hard East blows Over their maiden vows, Grow not as this face grows from pale to bright.

I love spring anywhere, but if I could choose I would always greet in a garden.

God's church is not a stage for us to perform on but a garden for us to grow in.

God wants nothing from you but the gift of a peaceful heart.

God is the experience of looking at a tree and saying, 'Ah!

Plants are like people: they're all different and a little bit strange.

Theres nothing more depressing than having everything and still feeling sad. We must learn to water our spiritual garden.