Quotes about Root

The love of money is the root of all evil. It blinds the vision and prevents people from discerning their obligations to God or to their neighbors.

At the root of all misery is unfulfilled desire.

Jon had often told me that if you focus on the fruit and ignore the root, the tree will die, but if you continue to care for the root and focus on your culture, process, people, and purpose, then you'll always have a great supply of fruit.

We need to cultivate in our own hearts the same hatred of sin God has. Hatred of sin as sin, not just as something disquieting or defeating to ourselves, but as displeasing to God, lies at the root of all true holiness.

Humility, the place of entire dependence on God, is the first duty and the highest virtue of the creature, and the root of every virtue. And so pride, or the loss of this humility, is the root of every sin and evil.

Humility is the only soil in which the graces root; the lack of humility is the sufficient explanation of every defect and failure. Humility is not so much a grace or virtue along with others; it is the root of all, because it alone takes the right attitude before God, and allows Him as God to do all.

The root of anger is the perception that something has been taken. Something is owed you, and now a debt to debtor relationship has been established.

Compassion, in which all ethics must take root, can only attain its full breadth and depth if it embraces all living creatures and does not limit itself to mankind.

The love of money is the root of all evil." The lack of money is the root of all evil.

Anger has a "poisoned root and honeyed tip."

Life is like a tree and its root is consciousness. Therefore, once we tend the root, the tree as a whole will be healthy.

For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.