Our mind is like a field, and performing actions is like sowing seeds in that field.
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.
Men's private self-worlds are rather like our geographical world's seasons, storm, and sun, deserts, oases, mountains and abysses, the endless-seeming plateaus, darkness and light, and always the sowing and the reaping.
There’s no need for us to be held back by the past or how things have been so far. The important thing is what seeds we are sowing now for the future.
I am very glad to hear that the Gardener has saved so much of the St. foin seed, and that of the India Hemp. Make the most you can of both, by sowing them again in drills. . . Let the ground be well prepared, and the Seed (St. loin) be sown in April. The Hemp may be sown any where.
I think once a person realizes that they are every day either sowing into their life either potential success, or sowing into their life potential failure, they would all of a sudden go okay, I've got to figure out what I'm going to do.
In the vast cosmical changes, the universal life comes and goes in unknown quantities. . . sowing an animalcule here, crumbling a star there, oscillating and winding,. . . entangling, from the highest to the lowest, all activities in the obscurity of a dizzying mechanism, hanging the flight of an insect upon the movement of the earth. . . Enormous gearing, whose first motor is the gnat, and whose last wheel is the zodiac.
By sowing frugality we reap liberty, a golden harvest.
The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.
The problems in life come when we're sowing one thing and expecting to reap something entirely different.
This will be a great day in our history; the date of a New Revolution - quite as much needed as the old one. Even now as I write they are leading old John Brown to execution in Virginia for attempting to rescue slaves! This is sowing the wind to reap the whirlwind which will come soon!
Through adoration, the Christian mysteriously contributes to the radical transformation of the world and to the sowing of the Gospel. Anyone who prays to the Savior draws the whole world with him and raises it to God. Those who stand before the Lord are therefore fulfilling an eminent service. They are presenting to Christ all those who do not know him or are far from him: they keep watch in his presence on their behalf.
Sowing is not as difficult as reaping.
Liberty, next to religion has been the motive of good deeds and the common pretext of crime, from the sowing of the seed at Athens, 2,460 years ago, until the ripened harvest was gathered by men of our race. It is the delicate fruit of a mature civilization; and scarcely a century has passed since nations, that knew the meaning of the term, resolved to be free. In every age its progress has been beset by its natural enemies, by ignorance and superstition, by lust of conquest and by love of ease, by the strong man's craving for power, and the poor man's craving for food.
I say to you: Make perfect your will. I say: take no thought of the harvest, But only of proper sowing.
Success leaves clues, and if you sow the same seeds, youll reap the same rewards.
What we preach is what we get. We are farmers sowing seed. If we are unhappy with the harvest we’re reaping, we should sow different seed. If we want different results, we preach different messages.
Most of us spend the first six days of each week sowing wild oats; then we go to church on Sunday and pray for a crop failure.
God guarantees that His Word will not return void. He doesn't guarantee that the return will be immediate. Keep sowing!
They know not how many things are signified by the words stealing, sowing, buying, keeping quiet, seeing what ought to be done; for this is not effected by the eyes, but by another kind of vision.
