God as a gardener or farmer (quotes)

The bible is a story of gardens

The Bible is the story of two gardens: Eden and Gethsemane. In the first, Adam took a fall. In the second, Jesus took a stand. In the first, God sought Adam. In the second, Jesus sought God. In Eden, Adam hid from God. In Gethsemane, Jesus emerged from the tomb. In Eden, Satan led Adam to a tree that led to his death. From Gethsemane, Jesus went to a tree that led to our life. Max Lucado

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The world God made is a garden and must help tend to it

A great challenge: stop ruining the garden which God has entrusted to us so that all may enjoy it. Pope Francis
God’s church is not a stage for us to perform on but a garden for us to grow in. Michael Horton
I am a bird of God’s garden. Rumi
As stewards of God’s creation, we are called to make the earth a beautiful garden for the human family. Pope Francis
He who plants a tree is a servant of God. Louis L’Amour
At the end of history the whole earth has become the Garden of God again. Death and decay and suffering are gone. . . . Jesus will make the world our perfect home again. We will no longer be living ‘east of Eden,’ always wandering and never arriving. We will come, and the father will meet us and embrace us, and we will be brought into the feast. Timothy Keller
Christianity sees plants and flowers as created by God to show forth and share with humans the divine goodness, beauty and truth – the purpose of all Creation. John Stokes
Do not judge God’s world from your own. Trim your own hedge as you wish and plant your flowers in the patterns you can understand, but do not judge the garden of nature from your little window box. Georg C. Lichtenberg
Man must be a co-worker with God in making this earth a garden. Joseph Hertz

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God is a gardener…

I am the true vine, and my Father is the gardener. He cuts off every branch in me that bears no fruit, while every branch that does bear fruit he prunes[a] so that it will be even more fruitful. You are already clean because of the word I have spoken to you. Remain in me, as I also remain in you. No branch can bear fruit by itself; it must remain in the vine. Neither can you bear fruit unless you remain in me. John 15
The world is a garden of philosophy. God is its gardener; Man is the visitor. And any tree that does not bear fruits of philosophy either does not belong to that garden or is yet to be grown. Kedar Joshi
Perhaps God does with His heavenly garden as we do with our own. He may chiefly stock it from nurseries, and select for transplanting what is yet in its young and tender age–flowers before they have bloomed and trees ere they begin to bear. Thomas Guthrie
I am the true vine, and my Father is the gardener. John 15:1-2
He who makes a garden Works hand in hand with God. Douglas Malloch
And the likeness of those who expend their wealth, seeking God’s good pleasure [believers], while they are certain that God will reward them, is as the likeness of a garden on a height: heavy rain falls on it, and thereupon it doubles its yield of harvest; and if it does not receive heavy rain, soft rain suffices it. And God sees all that you do. Al-Baqara 2:265
God fails not to sow blessings in the furrows. Jeremy Taylor
The tree that God plants, no winde hurts it. George Herbert
God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures. Francis Bacon

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…and a farmer

God allows the wheat and the tares to grow up together, and the tares frequently get the start of the wheat and kill it out. The only difference between the wheat and human beings is that the latter have intellect and ought to combine and pull out the tares, root and branch. Susan B. Anthony
In the Old Testament…God is the owner of the vineyard. Here He is the Keeper, the Farmer, the One who takes care of the vineyard. Jesus is the genuine Vine, and the Father takes care of Him…In the Old Testament it is prophesied that the Lord Jesus would grow up before Him as a tender plant and as a root out of the dry ground. Think how often the Father intervened to save Jesus from the devil who wished to slay Him. The Father is the One who cared for the Vine, and He will care for the branches, too. Vernon McGee

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We can always find God in the garden

God is entirely and personally present in the wilderness, in the garden, in the field. Martin Luther
I think that if ever a mortal heard the voice of God it would be in a garden at the cool of the day. Frank Frankfort Moore
Let everything in creation draw you to God. Refresh your mind with some innocent recreation and needful rest, if it were only to saunter through the garden or the fields, listening to the sermon preached by the flowers, the trees, the meadows, the sun, the sky, and the whole universe. You will find that they exhort you to love and praise God; that they excite you to extol the greatness of the Sovereign Architect Who has given them their being. Paul of the Cross
The glory of gardening: hands in the dirt, head in the sun, heart with nature. To nurture a garden is to feed not just on the body, but the soul. Alfred Austin
To cultivate a garden is to walk with God. Christian Nestell Bovee
What good is all our busy religion if God isn’t in it? What good is it if we’ve lost majesty, reverence, worship-an awareness of the divine? What good is it if we’ve lost a sense of the Presence and the ability to retreat within our own hearts and meet God in the garden? Aiden Wilson Tozer
What is God after all? An eternal child playing an eternal game in an eternal garden. Sri Aurobindo
I have found, after a good deal of consideration, that the best place to seek God is in a garden. You can dig for Him here. George Bernard Shaw
God Almighty first planted a Garden. And indeed it is the purest of human pleasures. It is the greatest refreshment to the spirits of man, without which buildings and palaces are but gross handiworks. And a man shall ever see, that when ages grow to civility and elegancy, men come to build stately sooner than to garden finely, as if gardening were the greater perfection. Francis Bacon

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God plants us and plants seeds in us

God plants a unique set of gifts within each of us, enabling us to do a particular work for Him in a particular way. Phil Pringle
God plants dreams in people’s hearts. Joyce Meyer
God plants no yearning in the human soul that he does not intend to satisfy. Henry Ward Beecher
To be a vineyard is to be lovingly planted by God and sometimes to flourish. Lauren F. Winner
God will never plant the seed of his life upon the soil of a hard, unbroken spirit. He will only plant that seed where the conviction of his spirit has brought brokenness, where the soil has been watered with the tears of repentance as well as the tears of joy. Alan Redpath
I think you grow wherever God plants you. C. Watts
That which God plants he will take care to keep watered. Matthew Henry
The gods plant reason in mankind, of all good gifts the highest. Sophocles
We plant sod where God wants to plant seed. He’s more interested in growing our character than having us look finished. Bob Goff
Were all yearning for a wedge of sky, aren’t we? I suspect God plants these yearnings in us so we’ll at least try and change the course of things. We must try, that’s all. Sue Monk Kidd
God has not made this world to be a nest for us, and if we try to make it such for ourselves, he plants thorns in it, so that we may be compelled to mount and find our soul’s true home somewhere else, in a higher and nobler sphere than this poor world can give. Charles Spurgeon

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God prunes us

God prunes us when He is about to take us into a new season of growth and expansion. Christine Caine

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In God, we bear fruit…

Father of mercy and God of all consolation, graciously look upon me and impart to me the blessing which flows from this holy Sacrament. Overshadow me with Your loving kindness, and let this divine Mystery bear fruit in me. Saint Blaise
If your life consistently bears no fruit, God will intervene to discipline you. If your life bears some fruit, God will intervene to prune you. If your life bears a lot of fruit, God will invite you to abide more deeply with Him. Bruce Wilkinson
Fruit is always the miraculous, the created; it is never the result of willing, but always a growth. The fruit of the Spirit is a gift of God, and only He can produce it. They who bear it know as little about it as the tree knows of its fruit. They know only the power of Him on whom their life depends. Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Why don’t you think of [God] as the one who is coming, who has been approaching from all eternity… the ultimate fruit of a tree whose leaves we are. Rainer Maria Rilke
Sorrow is a fruit. God does not make it grow on limbs too weak to bear it. Victor Hugo
Let none of you have a soul which is barren and without fruit. Let nobody be unloving or unreceptive to the spiritual seed. May each of you eagerly accept the celestial seed, the word of salvationand by your own efforts bring it to perfection as a heavenly work and fruit pleasing to God. Let no one make a beginning of a good work which brings no fruit to nor declare his faith in Christ only with His tongue. Gregory Palamas
Let us pray God that He would root out of our hearts every thing of our own planting, and set out there, with His own hands, the tree of life, bearing all manner of fruits. Francois Fenelon
We are identified and known by the sort of fruit, the quantity of fruit, and the quality of fruit borne out in our daily conversation, conduct, and character. There is no greater criterion for Christians. It is the paramount gauge of God’s people. Phillip Keller
Fruit … it’s just God showing off. “Look at all the colours I know!” Dylan Moran
It is better to live poorly upon the fruits of God’s goodness than live plentifully upon the products of our own sin. T. B. Joshua
God does not care what good you did, but why you did it. He does not grade the fruit but probes the core and tests the root. Angelus Silesius
God judges a tree by its fruits and not by its roots. Paulo Coelho
In God’s garden of grace, even broken trees bear fruit. Rick Warren
God prefers fruits of the spirit over religious nuts. Adrian Rogers
God’s children have a limitless supply of the fruit of the Spirit. Henry R Brandt
If there are a bunch of fruit trees, one can say that whoever created these fruit trees wanted some apples. In other words, by looking at the order in the world, we can infer purpose and from purpose we begin to get some knowledge of the Creator, the Planner of all this. This is, then, how I look at God. I look at God through the works of God’s hands and from those works imply intentions. From these intentions, I receive an impression of the Almighty. Arno Allan Penzias
In Ecclesiasticus it says, I shall irrigate the garden in my estate, and I shall abundantly water the fruit born to me. Now the garden is the soul in which Christ as the gardener plants the sacrament by faith, he then waters the garden and makes it fruitful with the grace of compunction. With this in mind the text adds, and I shall abundantly water the fruit born to me. This means that our souls are like fruit born of the Lord, born of his pain. Anthony of Padua
A man who has no love in him is as barren as a cloud with no moisture, a tree with no fruits or a cow yielding no milk; he is ever far from God and can never earn His Grace. Sathya Sai Baba

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…especially when we root ourselves in God’s love

When the fruit appears the blossom drops off. Love of God is the fruit, and rituals are the blossom. Ramakrishna
People can’t see your root system, but God can. Praying and meditating on the Word of God will cause your roots to go down deep into His love. Warren W. Wiersbe
The superfluous blossoms on a fruit tree are meant to symbolize the large way God loves to do pleasant things. Henry Ward Beecher
The more you are called to speak for God’s love, the more you will need to deepen the knowledge of that love in your own heart. The farther the outward journey takes you, the deeper the inward journey must be. Only when your roots are deep can your fruits be abundant. Henri Nouwen
The more we touch the intimate love of God which creates, sustains, and guides us, the more we recognize the multitude of fruits that come forth from that love. Henri Nouwen
The greatest attribute of God is Love. The Tree of Life is located in the very depth of our soul. The most perfect and abundant fruit that grows and ripens is Life giving Love; it is the great healing force in the world. Love never fails to meet every demand of the human heart. The Divine principal of Love may be used to eliminate every sorrow, infirmity, in-harmony, ignorance and all mistakes of mankind. Love is God; eternal, limitless, changeless, infinite. It is the pulse of the world, the heartbeat of the Universe. Baird T. Spalding
Faith is the root, the necessary beginning. Hope is the stem, the energy that makes the plant grow. Love is the fruit, the flower, the visible product, the bottom line. The plant of our new life in Christ is one; the life of God comes into us by faith, through us by hope, and out of us by the works of love. Peter Kreeft

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Each soul is a garden

In the garden of the soul, the virtues of faith, hope, and love form the centerpiece. Traditionally called theological virtues, they come as free gifts from God and draw us to God. We cannot earn these virtues; God has already freely planted them in our soul. Robert Morneau
When the souls rise up in glory, yours shall not be shunned nor sunderered, but shall be the prize of the gods’ gardens. Even your darkness shall be treasured then, and all your pain made holy. Lois McMaster Bujold
It is God’s world still. It has been given to man not absolutely, but in trust, that man may work out in it the will of God; given-may we not say?-just as a father gives a child a corner of his great garden, and says, “There, that is yours; now cultivate it.” Phillips Brooks
People’s souls are like gardens. You can’t turn your back on someone because his garden’s full of weeds. You have to give him water and lots of sunshine. Nancy Farmer
The fruit of our labors is sweet when the work is consecrated to God. But we have to be able to weather the conditions – the winds, the rain or the drought, the brilliant sun and sometimes the bitter cold. Sometimes our work needs to be directed at improving our ground rather than excusing our own harvests because the place we have been given is a little hard; there are too many rocks, too many hills, too little top soil. If we focus on where we are instead of what we can do with our plot, we will find our efforts significantly diminished. Elaine L. Jack
The gracious, eternal God permits the spirit to green and bloom and to bring forth the most marvelous fruit, surpassing anything a tongue can express and a heart conceive. Johannes Tauler
There can be no barrenness in full summer. The very sand will yield something. Rocks will have mosses, and every rift will have its wind-flower, and every crevice a leaf; while from the fertile soil will be reared a gorgeous troop of growths, that will carry their life in ten thousand forms, but all with praise to God. And so it is when the soul knows its summer. Love redeems its weakness, clothes its barrenness, enriches its poverty, and makes its very desert to bud and blossom as the rose. Henry Ward Beecher
True silence is a garden enclosed, where alone the soul can meet its God. Catherine Doherty
Those who go forth ministering to the wants and necessities of their fellow beings experience a rich return, their souls being as a watered garden, and a spring that faileth not. Lucretia Mott
Every moment and every event of every man’s life on earth plants something in his soul. Thomas Merton

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Each soul is a flower in God’s garden

Each bud flowers but once and each flower has but its minute of perfect beauty; so, in the garden of the soul each feeling has, as it were, its flowering instant, its one and only moment of expansive grace and radiant kingship. Henri Frederic Amiel
Every flower is a soul blossoming in nature. Gerard De Nerval
Every moment and every event of every man’s life on earth plants something in his soul. ~ Thomas Merton
The soul of a child is the loveliest flower that grows in the garden of God. Elizabeth George
Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into. Henry Ward Beecher
Inside each one of us is a beautiful flower garden. This is the garden of the soul. With each lesson we learn, the garden grows. As we learn together, our individual gardens form a tranquil paradise. Sri Chinmoy
Spirituality yields two fruits. The first in inspiration to know what to do. The second is power, or the capacity to do it. Richard G. Scott
No Scripture is exhausted by a single explanation. The flowers of God’s garden bloom not only double, but sevenfold; they are continually pouring forth fresh fragrance. Charles Spurgeon
Soul is at home in the deep, shaded valleys. Heavy torpid flowers saturated with black grow there. The rivers flow like warm syrup. They empty into huge oceans of soul. Dalai Lama
Mary is the lily in God’s garden. Bridget of Sweden
Love is to the heart what the summer is to the farmer’s year. It brings to harvest all the loveliest flowers of the soul. Billy Graham

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We must plant virtue in our garden and water it

Many are needed to plant and water what has been planted now that the faith has spread so far and there are so many people… No matter who plants or waters, God gives no harvest unless what is planted is the faith of Peter and unless he agrees to his teachings. Thomas Becket
Our devotional life with God is more like the planting of a garden. When we arise from sowing into the secret place, we will not usually be able to point to immediate results or benefits. What we sow today will require an entire season of growth before the results are manifest. Bob Sorge
Ponder the fact that God has made you a gardener, to root out vice and plant virtue. Catherine of Siena
There is a little plant called reverence in the corner of my soul’s garden, which I love to have watered once a week. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

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We must cultivate our gardens

We must cultivate our own garden. Voltaire
The growth of all the plants of the garden from seeds and roots keep us mindful, in accordance with of the Parable of the Sower, of the need for our loving, mortified reception and cultivation in our hearts and souls of the seeds and roots of the supernatural gifts and virtues necessary for progress in the ascetical/mystical ascent of our souls toward union with God and with the divine will for Creation and Kingdom. Adversity is not simply a tool. It is God’s most effective tool for the advancement of our spiritual lives. The circumstances and events that we see as setbacks are oftentimes the very things that launch us into periods of intense spiritual growth. Once we begin to understand this, and accept it as a spiritual fact of life, adversity becomes easier to bear. John Stokes
People who are close to God cultivate a personal intimacy with Him like a good gardener cultivates beautiful flowers. Charles R. Swindoll
Try to cultivate love of God. You are born as a human being only to attain divine love. Ramakrishna
I also know that we must cultivate our garden. For when man was put in the Garden of Eden, he was put there to work; which proves that man was not born for rest. Voltaire
Happiness is a habit—cultivate it. Elbert Hubbard
Seek to cultivate a buoyant, joyous sense of the crowded kindnesses of God in your daily life. Alexander MacLaren
To cultivate a garden is to walk with God. Christian Nestell Bovee
Every person is endowed with God-given abilities, and we must cultivate every ounce of talent we have in order to maintain our pinnacle position in the world. Benjamin Carson
Cultivate inner beauty, the gentle gracious kind that God delights in. Saint Peter
Talent comes from God. If you have been given some, then value it, cultivate it, work and develop it. Denzel Washington
In the very nature of every human being has been sown the seed of the ability to love. You and I ought to welcome this seed, cultivate it carefully, nourish it attentively and foster its growth by going to the school of God’s commandments with help of His grace. Saint Basil
Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage. Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends. Turn the old; return to them. Things do not change; we change. Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts. God will see that you do not want society. Henry David Thoreau
I urge you to continue throughout your lives to cultivate a heart in tune with the Spirit. If you do so, your lives will be enriched. You will feel a kinship with God our Eternal Father. You will taste the sweetness of joy that can be had in no other way. Gordon B. Hinckley
Life is nothing but the expansion of love. We can cultivate divine love by entering into the Source. The Source is God, who is all Love. Sri Chinmoy
I believe that I am a child of God, endowed with a divine birthright. I believe that there is something of divinity within me and within each of you. I believe that we have a godly inheritance and that it is our responsibility, our obligation, and our opportunity to cultivate and nurture the very best of these qualities within us. Gordon B. Hinckley
Instead of our petulant, fretful, irritable human hastiness we should cultivate in our souls the patience which has learned to wait on God. William Barclay
Seek, as a plain duty, to cultivate a buoyant, joyous sense of the crowded kindnesses of God in your daily life. Alexander MacLaren
The spiritual task of life is to feed hope. Hope is not something to be found outside of us. It lies in the spiritual life we cultivate within. The whole purpose of wrestling with life is to be transformed into the self we are meant to become, to step out of the confines of our false securities and allow our creating God to go on creating. In us. Joan D. Chittister

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We must remove the thorns from our garden

I think most American churchgoers are the soil that chokes the seed because of all the thorns. Thorns are anything that distracts us from God. When we want God and a bunch of other stuff, then that means we have thorns in our soil. A relationship with God simply cannot grow when money, sins, activities, favorite sports teams, addictions, or commitments are piled on top of it. Francis Chan

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We sow seeds in our garden and reap what we sow

Sometimes, God is going to have you sow a seed. Sometimes, God is going to have you water a seed that someone else sows. Sometimes, God is going to have you reap where others have sowed and watered. Greg Laurie
The man who sows wrong thoughts and deeds and prays that God will bless him is in the position of a farmer who, having sown tares, asks God to bring forth for him a harvest of wheat. James Allen
The hard work of sowing seed in what looks like perfectly empty earth has a time of harvest. All suffering, pain, emptiness, disappointment is seed: sow it in God and He will, finally, bring a crop of joy from it. Eugene H. Peterson

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We are roots in God’s Being

God bless the roots! Body and soul are one. Theodore Roethke
God is enough. That is the root of peace. When we start seeking something besides Him, we lose it. Brennan Manning
God’s goodness is the root of all goodness; and our goodness, if we have any, springs out of His goodness. William Tyndale
God’s is the causality at the level of our being, and therefore the roots of our freedom. Francis George
Love, in this world, is like a seed taken from the tropics, and planted where the winter comes too soon; and it cannot spread itself in flower-clusters and wide-twining vines, so that the whole air is filled with the perfume thereof. But there is to be another summer for it yet. Care for the root now, and God will care for the top by and by. Henry Ward Beecher
People can’t see your root system, but God can. Praying and meditating on the Word of God will cause your roots to go down deep into His love. Warren W. Wiersbe
The human being resembles a tree; its root is a covenant with God: that root must be cherished with all one’s might. Rumi
Therefore, a man ought to root himself so firmly in God that he will not need the consolations of men. Thomas a Kempis
Whatever you keep hidden in your heart, God manifests in you outwardly. Whatever the root of the tree feeds on in secret, affects the bough and the leaf. Rumi
If humanity is rooted in, and draws source from Divine Life, then we will always have access to the fruit of the Divine Spirit. Doug Hammack
If you plant yourself in one place and let your roots grow deep, there is no limit to what God can do. Mark Batterson
Deeply I go down into myself. My god is Dark and like a webbing made of a hundred roots that drink in silence. Rainer Maria Rilke
Grow as a palm-tree on God’s Mount Zion; howbeit shaken with winds, yet the root is fast. Samuel Rutherford

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…roots in God’s fertile soil

Let’s set the ‘our-Father’ image of God aside for a bit and give ourselves some creative latitude in how we think of God. One of the terms for God in our tradition is ‘the Ground of Being.’ Let’s imagine what our spiritual lives would be like if we thought of God more like soil for a plant than a father of a young woman. If we imagine God as the earth in which our truest beings are rooted, it might change how we search for, and how we experience God. Doug Hammack
You are in God-Soil, and God-Soil is in you. Doug Hammack
One of the terms for God in our tradition is ‘the Ground of Being.’ Let’s imagine what our spiritual lives would be like if we thought of God more like soil for a plant than a father of a young woman. If we imagine God as the earth in which our truest beings are rooted, it might change how we search for, and how we experience God. Doug Hammack
A different image of God changes our spiritual lives profoundly. If we think of God as nutrient and energy, as the source from which we draw life and strength, it changes our spiritual instincts. If God were the substrate from which we draw being, then Divine Life is always present in us, and we are always present in God. If this was our view of God, it would mean we always have access to the Divine. It would mean we are as inseparable from God as a tree is from the soil. Like the tree, Divine Life is always there, always surrounding and sustaining us. Doug Hammack
…he [the disbeliever], who spends his wealth only to be seen and praised by men, and believes not in God and the Last Day: for his parable is that of a smooth rock with [a little] soil, upon it –on it falls heavy rain which leaves it barren. They are not able to do anything with what they have earned: for God does not guide people who refuse to acknowledge the truth. ” The Qur’an
The “soil” image of God I shared with my daughter is a rich part of our Christian heritage. Paul imagined God as a substrate in which “we live, and move, and have being.” Thomas Merton spoke of God being present as the “Ground of Our Being, even while remaining hidden from our investigating minds.” In our efforts to speak of God, “soil” is an image that can profoundly deepen our spiritual experience. Doug Hammack
Faith grows when it is planted in the fertile soil of God’s Word. Billy Graham
I want to ask you to place a significant seed in God’s soil and see it work for you. Just as a special sacrifice was offered on the Day of Atonement, let me ask you to bring a very special offering. Benny Hinn
Our prayers must spring from the indigenous soil of our own personal confrontation with the Spirit of God in our lives. Reverend Malcolm Boyd

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God causes us to grow

Just as the power of the sun is the only force in the natural universe that causes a plant to grow against gravity, so the grace of God is the only force in the spiritual universe that causes a person to grow against the gravity of their own ego. Simone Weil

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We reap the harvest of God through prayer

Prayer is the only adequate way to multiply our efforts fast enough to reap the harvest God desires. Wesley L Duewel
The law of prayer is the law of harvest: sow sparingly in prayer, reap sparingly; sow bountifully in prayer, reap bountifully. The trouble is we are trying to get from our efforts what we never put into them. Leonard Ravenhill

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We are seeds in God…

[God] wants you to go home, look at your bucket of seed, and determine in your heart how much you’d like to sow. He wants you to consider thoughtfully your current circumstances, your life, your potential, and your finances. He wants you to involve your family. He wants you to pray about it. And then He wants you to come up with a plan. Andy Stanley
Anyone can count the seeds in an apple, but only God can count the number of apples in a seed. Robert H. Schuller
Let God fling you out (as seed), and do not go until He does. If you select your own spot, you will prove an empty pod. If God sows you, you will bring forth fruit. Oswald Chambers
We were born to die and we die to live. As seedlings of God, we barely blossom on earth; we fully flower in heaven. Russell M. Nelson
Your heart is full of fertile seeds, waiting to sprout. Just as a lotus flower springs from the mire to bloom splendidly, the interaction of the cosmic breath causes the flower of the spirit to bloom and bear fruit in this world. Morihei Ueshiba
Man is a seed sown in the soil of Time, and God the sower – life the allotted field. Elizabeth Palmer Peabody
I want to ask you to place a significant seed in God’s soil and see it work for you. Benny Hinn
If you can be a blessing to somebody else, you’re sowing a seed for God to help you. Joel Osteen
God planted the seeds of all the trees,” continued Hetty, after a moment’s pause, “and you see to what a height and shade they have grown! So it is with the Bible. You may read a verse this year, and forget it, and it will come back to you a year hence, when you least expect to remember it. James F. Cooper
God not only initiated my salvation, He not only sowed the seed, but He made sure that that seed germinated in my heart by regenerating me by the power of the Holy Ghost. C. Sproul
God has blessed man with seed that has the highest potency and woman with a field richer than the richest earth to be found anywhere on his globe. Mahatma Gandhi
Confession is the act of inviting God to walk the acreage of our hearts. “There is a rock of greed over here, Father. I can’t budge it. And that tree of guilt near the fence? Its roots are long and deep. And may I show you some dry soil, too crusty for seed?” God’s seed grows better if the soil of the heart is cleared. Max Lucado
For you have been born again not of seed which is perishable but imperishable, that is, through the living and enduring word of God. – 1 Peter 1:23
Do you understand what God has done? He has deposited a Christ seed in you. As it grows you will change. It’s not that sin has no more presence in your life, but rather that sin has no more power over your life. Max Lucado
Every day you make a choice either to sow some of your seed or to eat it. When you exercise faith and sow, you release God’s law of prosperity. When you give in to your fear and eat your seed, or hide it, you release God’s law of poverty. John Avanzini
How about this miracle… God says if you plant the seed I will make the tree. Wow, you can’t have a better arrangement than that. First, it gives God the tough end of the deal. What if you had to make a tree? That would keep you up late at night trying to figure out how to make a tree. God says, “No, leave the miracle part to me. I’ve got the seed, the soil, the sunshine, the rain and the seasons. I’m God and all this miracles stuff is easy for me. I have reserved something very special for you and that is to plant the seed. Jim Rohn

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…and God is seed within us

God is the Seed; The Universe is the Tree, Impulses and passions are the branches, Intelligence is the flower, Pure Consciousness is the fruit, Love is the sweetness in the fruit. Sathya Sai Baba
The seed of God is in us: Pear seeds grow into pear trees; Hazel seeds into hazel trees; And God seeds into God. Meister Eckhart
We exist to exhibit God, to display his glory. We serve as canvases for his brush stroke, papers for his pen, soil for his seeds, glimpses of his image. Max Lucado
The kingdom of God is like a mustard seed. It happens quietly. It happens inevitably. Don’t underestimate God’s power. Alistair Begg
Anything that you have is seed that God has given you. Dan Davis
God gived you the seed. But the watering and caring of that seed is up to you. James McBride

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God’s word is seed

God’s Word is the living seed that brings new birth. It is the milk that nurtures the new life of a young Christian. Colin S. Smith
The seed of God’s Word won’t grow to fruitfulness without pruning for rest, quiet, and calm. Kevin DeYoung

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