Sowers Quotes

#1. I don't have Paul's calling - I'm not out there being all things to all men to win them for Christ - but sometimes I can be a signpost. Sometimes I can sow a seed. And post-hole diggers and seed sowers are mighty important in the building of the Kingdom.

Johnny Cash

#2. The church does not need apologists of its causes nor crusaders of its battles, but sowers humble and confident of the truth, who ... trust of its power

Pope Francis

#3. We are the sowers - our children are those who reap. We labor so that future generations will be better and nobler than we are.

Maria Montessori

#4. We must not hope to be mowers, And to gather the ripe gold ears, Unless we have first been sowers And water the furrows with tears. It is not just as we take it, This mystical world of ours, Life's field will yield as we make it A harvest of thorns or of flowers.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#5. The Anglo-Saxon farmers had scarce conquered foothold, stronghold, freehold in the Western wilderness before they became sowers of hemp
with remembrance of Virginia, with remembrance of dear ancestral Britain.

James Lane Allen

#6. The peacemakers shall be called the sons of God, who came to make peace between God and man. What then shall the sowers of discord be called, but the children of the devil? And what must they look for but their father's portion?

Bernard Of Clairvaux

#7. What happens when the sowers of mistrust become its reapers?

Rick Yancey

#8. I would like to comment on the God fiber within each living thing. This essence, this fiber of love and grace, runs in every vein, no matter how deeply buried. Each person has a God fiber, whatever their actions or hurt they have caused you or others.

Meredith L. Young-Sowers

#9. He was obliged however to throw over Christianity. Those who base their conduct upon what they are rather than upon what they ought to be, always must throw it over in the end . . . .

E. M. Forster

#10. The stripping away of illusion and the struggle to find personal reality can be likened to the peeling of an apple. As one peels away the layers of unreality ... eventually only the core remains.

Meredith L. Young-Sowers

#11. When we are unable to love and appreciate ourselves and our efforts, we run away from our mistakes and failures, rather than learning from them.

Meredith L. Young-Sowers

#12. As governor, I learned the importance of having an agenda.

John Engler

#13. The truest test of civilization, culture and dignity is character and not clothing.

Mahatma Gandhi

#14. Healing and positive life change comes from having the courage and spiritual conviction to look squarely at life's impermanence.

Meredith L. Young-Sowers

#15. The most important part of any relationship is allowing others to choose their own response to a situation, and of course this is the most difficult part.

Meredith L. Young-Sowers

#16. Old age is Satan's last chance to blow us off course.

Billy Graham

#17. When forgiveness is necessary, don't wait too long. We must begin to forgive, because without forgiving, we choke off our own joy; we kill our own soul. People carrying hate and resentment can invest themselves so deeply in that resentment that they gradually define themselves in terms of it.

Lewis B. Smedes

#18. I'd accomplished everything I had set out to do - winning the French and Australian Opens, the Olympic gold medal and the Davis Cup. So I said to myself: 'Why don't you try another year and see if you can enjoy your tennis like you did once?' And I've been doing it.

Yevgeny Kafelnikov

#19. The soul wanders in the dark, until it finds love. And so, wherever our love goes, there we find our soul.

Mary Zimmerman

#20. It's our task to immerse ourselves ... while keeping eyes and hearts open ...

Donna Tartt

#21. A true spiritual teacher knows more than he or she necessarily verbalizes, using temperance and love to be guided to say what is appropriate ...

Meredith L. Young-Sowers

#22. Every living thing is both a whole system in and of itself as well as an essential part of other systems.

Meredith L. Young-Sowers

#23. A reason or a purpose is a combination of "wants" and "don't wants".

Robert T. Kiyosaki

#24. You can only take care about someone else,
when you take care of yourself.
Petra Cecilia Maria Hermans
Worldpoet 546
October 3, 2016

Petra Hermans

#25. No one spiritual path is better than another, although one may accept the universe's role in life more than another.

Meredith L. Young-Sowers

#26. It can be difficult to face the truth. And there's never a "good time" to face a difficult truth. So, I put it off for a better time, and become a prisoner of my own fear. It's the middle of Lent. There couldn't be a better time to face whatever truth I've been avoiding.

Ken Untener

#27. I haven't written an awful lot recently, but I think I probably will start again very shortly. Being so much on the road, when you have a couple of weeks off, you're likely to avoid sitting at the piano, and taping, and giving yourself more work to do.

George Shearing

#28. I stared down the slim barrel of a gun, looked into eyes rabid with fear and hatred, and saw my reflection. Pulled the trigger to make it go away.
I heard the echoes of my gunshots, smelled the cordite, and in the smoke, I still saw my reflection and knew I always would.

Dennis Lehane

#29. To assume you know someone well enough that you can and do predict their behavior and mental perspective is a gross and often tragic mistake, for it eliminates that person's freedom to create his or her own opinion and drastically affects the emerging picture of the relationship.

Meredith L. Young-Sowers