Quotes about Roots

And thus, by the express appointment of the same God, two roots of blessing, the Roman Empire, and the doctrine of Christian piety, sprang up together for the benefit of men.

I think there are people who really love the comfort of their small town, and there are people who feel stuck by it.

... a man leaves much when he leaves his own country.

God judges a tree by its fruits and not by its roots.

You can never go home again, but the truth is you can never leave home, so it's all right.

A book should be a garden that fits in the hands. Word-petals of color. Stems of strength. roots of truth. Turn a page and turn the seasons. Read the sentence and enjoy the roses.

I long, as does every human being, to be at home wherever I find myself.

How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers names.

Far too many young people coming of age today have no spiritual or emotional roots. They have been deprived of values by an agnostic and contemporary culture.

Faith grows when it is planted in the fertile soil of God's Word.

Christianity has its roots in the deep, firm soil of history. Jesus' incarnation—God invading human history with His presence in the form of man—is on the record. Every time you write the date, you attest to the fact that God entered human history.

Even as the roots, shut in the darksome earth, Share in the tree-top's joyance, and conceive Of sunshine and wide air and winged things, By sympathy of nature, so do I gave evidence of things unseen.