Real development is not leaving things behind, as on a road, but drawing life from them, as from a root. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Our gracious God, we need the ministry of the Spirit of God within our lives so that Your Word may take root… — Alistair Begg Copy Share Image
Experience has shown us that virtue puts down only shallow roots in those who are there for just a short time — Vincent de Paul Copy Share Image
We don't want the Taliban to put down roots, or the al Qaeda to put down roots in Afghanistan that can facilitate… — John R. Allen Copy Share Image
Beloved, gaze in thine own heart, The holy tree is growing there; From joy the holy branches start, And all the trembling… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
Fruits are always of the same nature with the seeds and roots from which they come, and trees are known by the… — Algernon Sidney Copy Share Image
You have first an instinct, then an opinion, then a knowledge, as the plant has root, bud, and fruit. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A tree lives on its roots. If you change the root, you change the tree. Culture lives in human beings. If you… — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
My interest in the psychological roots of psychosis has both personal (my brother Andrew committed suicide) and professional origins (I was trained… — Richard Bentall Copy Share Image
“Does any one suppose that private prayer is necessarily candid—necessarily goes to the roots of action? Private prayer is inaudible speech, and… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Religious ideas and practices take root not because they are promoted by forceful theologians, nor because they can be shown to have… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
This body, the United States Congress, was united, Republicans and Democrats alike, in taking that action, toppling the Taliban government, and working… — Chris Van Hollen Copy Share Image
I paint a tree - I think of how the roots go deep, deep into the earth. How the tree grows year… — Douglas Lockwood Copy Share Image
Ponder the fact that God has made you a gardener, to root out vice and plant virtue. — St. Catherine of Siena Copy Share Image
We must win the common people in every corner. This will be obtained chiefly by means of the schools, and by open,… — Adam Weishaupt Copy Share Image
The music of the westerner comes from Africa, whether they like it or not. The majority of the instruments of the music,… — Angelique Kidjo Copy Share Image
Whoever originated the cliche that money is the root of all evil knew hardly anything about the nature of evil and very… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
There is no abstract Evil; you have to understand that! Its roots are here, all around us, in this herd that goes… — Sergei Lukyanenko Copy Share Image
I realized that a tree never says, "I have too many branches." It simply digs deeper roots, expands itself to catch more… — Brenda Strong Copy Share Image
Your roots, your family, your friends all become so much more important to you as you get older, especially if you are… — Amanda Donohoe Copy Share Image
“Our sense of the full range of human nature, like our diet, has been steadily reduced. No matter how nourishing it might… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Do not miss the opportunity of offering even a single drop into the ocean of merit or a grain atop the mountain… — Dogen Copy Share Image
Metaphor is our mental root of imagination and language. Arnold Kozak offers fertile metaphors for growing your knowledge of the Buddhadharma. If… — Polly Young-Eisendrath Copy Share Image
I do not want a plain box, I want a sarcophagus With tigery stripes, and a face on it Round as the… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image