Quotes about Yeast
It is like leaven that a woman took and mixed into three measures of flour, until all of it was leavened.”
- Luke 13:21
The gospel transforms culture by permeating it like yeast, and long after the people abandon belief they tend to live by habits of the soul. Once salted and yeasted, society is difficult to un-salt and un-yeast.
- Philip Yancey
Jesus also used this illustration: "The Kingdom of Heaven is like the yeast a woman used in making bread. Even though she put only a little yeast in three measures of flour, it permeated every part of the dough" (Matthew 13:33 NLT). Yeast gets into the dough and slowly works its way through the entire batch. The promise is this: the goodness of Jesus will work its way through your entire being. Jesus is the yeast
- John Eldredge
Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes shine to the stars.
- Henry Ford
When it comes to doing something about what is wrong in the world, Jesus is best known for his fondness for the minute, the invisible, the quiet, the slow — yeast, salt, seeds, light. And manure.
- Eugene Peterson
Yeast will not only rise bread, but also the human spirit -Jim Carey
- Epicurus
Of course, there is some truth in advertising. There's yeast in bread, but you can't make bread with yeast alone. Truth in advertising," announced Lord Peter sententiously, "is like leaven, which a woman hid in three measures of meal. It provides a suitable quantity of gas, with which to blow out a mass of crude misrepresentation into a form that the public can swallow.
- Dorothy Sayers
God made yeast, as well as dough, and loves fermentation just as dearly as he loves vegetation.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
We need to stop focusing on people leaving earth and focus on, like Jesus said, the Kingdom of God is the yeast. Yeast invades dough.
- Myles Munroe