Quotes about Root
God the Father's a deep root; the Son's the shoot that breaks into the world; the Spirit spreads the beauty & fragrance
- Tertullian
True glory takes root, and even spreads; all false pretences, like flowers, fall to the ground; nor can any counterfeit last long.
- Cicero
Forgiveness costs us nothing. All our costly obedience is the fruit, not the root, of being forgiven. That's why we call it grace.
- John Piper
Soren Kierkegaard believed that boredom is the root of all evil. I second the notion. Boredom isn't just boring; boredom is wrong. You cannot simultaneously live by faith and be bored. Faith and boredom are antithetical.
- Mark Batterson
All of the modern counseling vernacular is really not dealing with the root issue of idolatry. Someone or something's preeminent rather than God.
- Mark Driscoll
On every stem, on every leaf ... and at the root of everything that grew, was a professional specialist in the shape of grub, caterpillar, aphis, or other expert, whose business it was to devour that particular part.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
And the surviving remnant of the house of Judah will again take root below and bear fruit above.
- 2 Kings 19:30
I have seen a fool taking root, but suddenly his house was cursed.
- Job 5:3
If you say, ‘Let us persecute him, since the root of the matter lies with him,’
- Job 19:28
the root Your right hand has planted, the son You have raised up for Yourself.
- Psalm 80:15
The wicked desire the plunder of evil men, but the root of the righteous flourishes.
- Proverbs 12:12
On that day the Root of Jesse will stand as a banner for the peoples. The nations will seek Him, and His place of rest will be glorious.
- Isaiah 11:10