Tares Quotes

#1. 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

#2. My principal method for defeating error and heresy is by establishing the truth. One purposes to fill a bushel with tares, but if I can fill it first with wheat, I may defy his attempts.

Isaac Newton

#3. History seldom destroys that which does not deserve to die; and the burning of the tares makes for the next sowing a richer soil.

Will Durant

#4. The year goes wrong, and tares grow strong, Hope starves without a crumb; But God's time is our harvest time, And that is sure to come.

John L. Bates

#5. When we want decisions more than we want disciples, we get tares instead of true converts and Ichabod, departed glory for the church.

James MacDonald

#6. I spread my fingers outward,
letting the knife tip of my
middle finger rip the sky as
it tares a rift in the moon.

A.P. Sweet

#7. A charmed life old goodness hath; the tares may perish, but the grain is not for death.

John Greenleaf Whittier

#8. The Lord is letting the wheat and the tares mature before he fully purges the Church. He is also testing you to see if you will be misled. The devil is trying to deceive the very elect.

Ezra Taft Benson

#9. The Enemy has been here in the night of our natural ignorance, and sown the tares of spiritual errors.

Thomas Hobbes

#10. God allows the wheat and the tares to grow up together, andthe 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

#11. I am convinced that hundreds of religious leaders throughout the world today are servants not of God, but of the Antichrist. They are wolves in sheep's clothing; they are tares instead of wheat.

Billy Graham

#12. Satan is not fighting churches; he is joining them. He does more harm by sowing tares than by pulling up wheat. He accomplishes more by imitation than by outright opposition.

Vance Havner

#13. Do not neglect to uproot from the hearts of children the tares of sins,

John Of Kronstadt

#14. God lets the guilty live right among the good, hurting them all they want; he lets the tares grow amid the corn.

Orson Scott Card

#15. She felt a calmness in him now, a centered lack of fear, that touched her heart with love, and with some queer darkness, as well. He was so different, her son, so special ... but the world did not love people like that. The world tried to root them out, like tares from a garden.

Stephen King

#16. On the whole it may be observed, that the specific use of a body of unproductive consumers, is to give encouragement to wealth by maintaining such a balance between produce and consumption as will give the greatest exchangeable value to the results of the national industry.

Thomas Malthus

#17. Peace is not merely the absence of visible conflict.

Barack Obama

#18. Putting yourself at risk ... that was the only path to anything meaningful. The biggest risk was in not taking a risk.

Amanda Howells

#19. Circumstances may appear to wreck our lives and God's plans, but God is not helpless among the ruins. God's love is still working. He comes in and takes the calamity and uses it victoriously, working out His wonderful plan of love.

Eric Liddell

#20. It's just assumed that a horror sequel is going to be bad. It's never going to be as good as the first one.

Eli Roth

#21. It puts you in a kind of a strange situation where everybody is looking at every little thing you do.

Glenn Close

#22. Red roses for young lovers. French beans for longstanding relationships

Ruskin Bond

#23. Trust in humanity, she is only in her infancy, she will grow to be great and trustworthy.

Debasish Mridha