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It is good to divert our sorrow for other things to the root of all, which is sin. Let our grief run most in that channel, that as sin bred grief, so grief may consume sin.
- Richard Sibbes
Life is like a tree and its root is consciousness. Therefore, once we tend the root, the tree as a whole will be healthy.
- Deepak Chopra
A right knowledge of sin lies at the root of all saving Christianity.
- JC Ryle
Whenever we do something wrong, then, from now on we will not blame anything except the opinion on which it's based; and we will try to root out wrong opinions with more determination than we remove tumours or infections from the body.
- Epictetus
Any well-read man knows that the moral difference between the condition of the world before Christianity was planted and since Christianity took root is the difference between night and day, the kingdom of heaven and the kingdom of the devil.
- JC Ryle
Where there is a rotten root, there will always be rotten fruit.
- Joyce Meyer
The creedal disclosure of Exod. 34:6-7 and the initial "pray-back" of Moses in Numbers 14 form a tap root for Israel's recurring prayer to this You who does wonders of costly solidarity.
- Walter Brueggemann
The biblical counselor must always remember that the ROOT problem is deeper than skin; it is sin. The ultimate cure is not culture, but Christ.
- James MacDonald
Abortion and racism are both symptoms of a fundamental human error. The error is thinking that when someone stands in the way of our wants, we can justify getting that person out of our lives. Abortion and racism stem from the same poisonous root, selfishness.
- Alveda King
Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Charity is the form, mover, mother and root of all the virtues.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
God is enough. That is the root of peace. When we start seeking something besides Him, we lose it.
- Brennan Manning