Thorns And Thistles Quotes

#1. Be thankful for the thorns and thistles, which keep you from being in love with this world, and becoming an idolater.

Charles Spurgeon

#2. Even though one is well advanced in virtue, should he stop mortifying himself, he soon would lose his modesty and virtue - just as fertile soul quickly becomes dry and arid and produces nothing but thorns and thistles if it is not cultivated.

John Climacus

#3. Eli: Cursed be the ground for our sake. Both thorns and thistles it shall bring forth for us. For out of the ground we were taken, for the dust we are ... and to the dust we shall return

Book Of Eli Movie

#4. I would say that workers in general, and white workers particularly, are correct that their economic wellbeing is deteriorating.

Andy Stern

#5. The destroyer of weeds, thistles, and thorns is a benefactor whether he soweth grain or not.

Robert G. Ingersoll

#6. I grew up in a home environment where I wasn't getting esteem for anything I did.

Ben Affleck

#7. Untilled soil, however fertile it may be, will bear thistles and thorns; so it is with man's mind.

Teresa Of Avila

#8. Anyone in the Tooth & Nail or Drive-Thru scene was my thing.

Kellin Quinn

#9. I believe that a healthy body breeds a healthy mind. I am 74 years old now and my wife, Niso, is 38 years younger than me. She absolutely insists that I take regular exercise with her.

Wilbur Smith

#10. We begin life with loss. We are cast from the womb without an apartment, a charge plate, a job or a car. We are sucking, sobbing, clinging, helpless babies.

Judith Viorst

#11. Most green-collar jobs are middle-skill jobs. That means they require more education that a high-school diploma, but less than a four-year degree.

Van Jones

#12. Moderation: a median with no means, praised by those with no misfortunes, practiced by those with no merits.

Bauvard

#13. Discouragement is an attitude.

Sterling W. Sill

#14. Man is in a transition stage; he has 31 pairs of spinal nerves which keys him to the solar month, but the nerves in the so-called cauda-equina - literally horse-tail, at the end of our spinal cord, are still too undeveloped to act as avenues for the spiritual ray of the sun.

Max Heindel

#15. In the spring mornings I would work early while my wife still slept. The windows were open wide and the cobbles of the street were drying after the rain.

Ernest Hemingway,

#16. If you give people happiness, then the happiness you experience will never end, but will be filling you incessantly

Sunday Adelaja

#17. I pray to God to be a great player, but I want to keep my life.

Carlos Beltran

#18. There's intense national feeling in America that could be called patriotism.

Michael Ignatieff

#19. kept thinking how the five of us had had a really unhealthy family, but I saw then too how our roots were twisted so tenaciously around one another's hearts. My

Elizabeth Strout

#20. Untilled ground, however rich, will bring forth thistles and thorns; so also the mind of man.

Teresa Of Avila

#21. I'm sort of murdered for selling books. The idea is, if you make money your work can't be literary.

Mark Helprin