Quotes about Bloom

The one foolproof test of our holiness will be the humility we demonstrate before God and men. Humility is the bloom and beauty of holiness.

How does the meadow-flower its bloom unfold? Because the lovely little flower is free Down to its root, and in that freedom bold.

Life comes before literature, as the material always comes before the work. The hills are full of marble before the world blooms with statues.