Quotes about Roots

Faith grows when it is planted in the fertile soil of God's Word.

Christianity has its roots in the deep, firm soil of history. Jesus' incarnation—God invading human history with His presence in the form of man—is on the record. Every time you write the date, you attest to the fact that God entered human history.

Even as the roots, shut in the darksome earth, Share in the tree-top's joyance, and conceive Of sunshine and wide air and winged things, By sympathy of nature, so do I gave evidence of things unseen.

I still have deep respect for the evangelical tradition and feel, in many ways, close to the Baptist roots of my childhood, although I've been an Episcopalian throughout my adult life and a regular churchgoer.

I am very happy that TV is going back to where we belong and what we believe in, the traditions.

I will plant my feet on that step where my parents put me as a child, until self-evident truth comes to light.

Blue Ivy can say she knows who her great-great-great-great-grandfather is. How many people can say that?

American music comes from the same tree, but sometimes we get to these places in history where we forget where things come from, and they get compartmentalized.

All ministry that is faithful & eventually fruitful finds its roots in the life, death, & resurrection of Jesus Christ.

All things must come to the soul from its roots, from where it is planted.

Speak the truth, and all things alive or brute are vouchers, and the very roots of the grass underground there, do seem to stir and move to bear you witness.

The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure.