Quotes about Tree
Against this defect man was provided with a remedy in the tree of life; for its effect was to strengthen the force of the species against the weakness resulting from the admixture of extraneous nutriment.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
My days have been so wondrous free,The little birds that flyWith careless ease from tree to tree,Were but as bless'd as I.
- Thomas Parnell
What is the kingdom of God like? . . . It is like a mustard seed, which a man took and planted in his garden. It grew and became a tree, and the birds of the air perched in its branches." LUKE 13:18—19
- Norman Vincent Peale
No, there's something wrong with the mental life, radically. It's rooted in spite and envy, envy and spite. Ye shall know the tree by its fruit.
- DH Lawrence
In a time of disorder [Laertes] has returned to the care of the earth, the foundation of life and hope. And Odysseus finds him in an act emblematic of the best and most responsible kind of agriculture: an old man caring for a young tree.
- Wendell Berry
Then the maiden climbed into a tree, and, seating herself in the branches, began to knit.
- Hamilton Wright Mabie
I am like a green olive tree in the house of God; I trust in the mercy of God forever and ever. I will praise You forever, because You have done it; And in the presence of Your saints I will wait on Your name, for it is good.
- Janette Oke
However, it is not the immediacy of such experiences that tells us that it is the Spirit of God in Christ by whom we are being formed. Rather, the proof, if not the comfort, lies in the person we become and the deeds that flow from us. The tree is known by its fruit.
- Dallas Willard
Instinct must be thwarted just as one prunes the branches of a tree so that it will grow better.
- Henri Matisse
A tree gives glory to God by being a tree. For in being what God means it to be it is obeying [God]. It "consents," so to speak, to [God's] creative love. It is expressing an idea which is in God and which is not distinct from the essence of God, and therefore a tree imitates God by being a tree
- Thomas Merton
A man is enriched by the faith, and if you will by the hope and humility, with which he calls on the most sweet Name of Our Lord Jesus Christ; and he is enriched also by peace and love. For these are truly a three-stemmed life-giving tree planted by God.
- Thomas Merton
Character is like a tree, and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.
- Anonymous