Quotes about Roots

I still have deep respect for the evangelical tradition and feel, in many ways, close to the Baptist roots of my childhood, although I've been an Episcopalian throughout my adult life and a regular churchgoer.

I will plant my feet on that step where my parents put me as a child, until self-evident truth comes to light.

American music comes from the same tree, but sometimes we get to these places in history where we forget where things come from, and they get compartmentalized.

All ministry that is faithful & eventually fruitful finds its roots in the life, death, & resurrection of Jesus Christ.

All things must come to the soul from its roots, from where it is planted.

Speak the truth, and all things alive or brute are vouchers, and the very roots of the grass underground there, do seem to stir and move to bear you witness.

The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure.

I'm from Iowa, we don't know what cool is!

how was a man to be explained unless you at least knew somebody who knew his father and mother?

Like a tree, the Bible tells us, bitterness has roots.a Consequently, we can saw away at our frustrations, disappointments, angers, hurts, and sadness, but unless we dig up our root of bitterness, it only returns, sometimes bigger than ever.

But we are supposed to have our roots planted somewhere other than circumstance. The roots of our lives are supposed to be drawing up the nutriments of joy from a source that cannot be depleted—the river of God and his Word. The one who delights in the Lord is "like a tree planted by streams of water.

It is in the roots, not the branches, that a tree's greatest strength lies.