The love of economy is the root of all virtue.
Hope and purpose in this world is living as best as you can and maybe having life that gives back. But simply giving back isn't purpose; it's a branch of purpose, but it is not the trunk or root of the tree.
Evil being the root of mystery, pain is the root of knowledge.
As we see, this is an illegal state; it is a cancerous entity and the root of all the crises and wars and cannot be a factor in bringing about a true and just peace in this region. Therefore, we cannot acknowledge the existence of a state called Israel, not even far in the future, as some people have tried to suggest. Time does not cancel the legitimacy of the Palestinian claim.
She was stretched on her back beneath the pear tree soaking in the alto chant of the visiting bees, the gold of the sun and the panting breath of the breeze when the inaudible voice of it all came to her. She saw a dust-bearing bee sink into the sanctum of a bloom; the thousand sister-calyxes arch to meet the love embrace and the ecstatic shiver of the tree from root to tiniest branch creaming in every blossom and frothing with delight.
Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin.
The root of masculine is stronger, and of feminine weaker. The sun is a governing planet to certain planets, while the moon borrows her light from the sun, and is less or weaker.
What you have to do if you are going to treat any disease is get to the root of the disease.
To be radical is to grasp things by the root.
Poetry is the silence and speech between a wet struggling root of a flower and a sunlit blossom of that flower.
It must always be borne in mind that the assumption of woman's social superiority lies at the root of these rules of conduct.
But there is a more virulent strain at the root of Western Lysenkoism today. Scientists, like Holdren and Michael Mann, can be leftist ideologues as well, posing to manipulate and mislead for the good of the cause. Bottom line: green is the new red. That is why Obama at root is so committed to it.
The root of happiness is altruism - the wish to be of service to others.
Karma is the root cause of success and failure in every aspect of life.
The creative process is like music which takes root with extraordinary force and rapidity
Our gracious God, we need the ministry of the Spirit of God within our lives so that Your Word may take root within us.
Homophobia is very, very difficult to root out, to extricate. That's why we have to bear witness. That's why we have to be so public about it, and that's why we can't just play footsie with it.
There's all sorts of things I was always meaning to get around to - learning to play the flute, calculating the square root of nought, going mad - but I just didn't have the time.
I believe the evidence strongly supports common descent. But the root question remains unanswered: What has caused complex systems to form?
Idleness, we are accustomed to say, is the root of all evil. To prevent this evil, work is recommended. . . . Idleness as such is by no means a root of evil; on the contrary, it is truly a divine life, if one is not bored.