Quotes about Thistles

Both thorns and thistles it will yield for you, and you will eat the plants of the field.

Thorns had grown up everywhere, thistles had covered the ground, and the stone wall was broken down.

For even if they flee destruction, Egypt will gather them and Memphis will bury them. Their precious silver will be taken over by thistles, and thorns will overrun their tents.

By their fruit you will recognize them. Are grapes gathered from thornbushes, or figs from thistles?

But land that produces thorns and thistles is worthless, and its curse is imminent. In the end it will be burned.

Bitterness is like a weed. Remember how hard it always was to pull out thistles once they root? Remember how deep those roots grow, and how if you just snapped off the end of it, the plant would grow right back? You have to dig down deep inside. Let God search your heart. Let Him show you what's there and help you root out all that bitterness. Then you can pray for forgiveness.

He releases the curse in order to drive us to our knees and to seek him, to recognize our need for a Savior (Gal. 3:21—25). The problem is instead of being broken by the thorns and thistles of life and thus coming to Christ, we either flee, fight, or hide.