Quotes about Preparation
Grateful people learn to celebrate even amid life's hard and harrowing memories because they know that pruning is no mere punishment, but preparation.
— Henri Nouwen
I am still like the prodigal: traveling, preparing speeches, anticipating how it will be when I finally reach my Father's house. But I am, indeed, on my way home. I have left the distant country and come to feel the nearness of love.
— Henri Nouwen
A good death is a death in solidarity with others. To prepare ourselves for a good death, we must develop or deepen this sense of solidarity.
— Henri Nouwen
How can we expect a harvest of thought who have not had a seed-time of character?
— Henry David Thoreau
that he live in all respects so compactly and preparedly that, if an enemy take the town, he can, like the old philosopher, walk out the gate empty-handed without anxiety.
— Henry David Thoreau
Have you got in your wood for this winter? What else have you got in? Of what use a great fire on the hearth, and a confounded little fire in the heart?
— Henry David Thoreau
For you yourselves know that the day of the Lord so comes as a thief in the night. 1 Thessalonians 5:2
— Henry Blackaby
To insure the greatest efficiency in the dart, the harpooners of this world must start to their feet from out of idleness, and not from out of toil.
— Herman Melville
trying to cook over the fire, plugging in the lamp before attempting to flip it on, or cranking up the engine before trying to put the car into gear. We
— Stephen Kendrick
I believe that worrying about a bad thing prepares you for it when it comes. If you worry, the bad thing doesn't hit you as hard. You can roll with the punch if you see it coming.
— Rainbow Rowell
When you begin to create the life of your dreams - or maybe better stated, when you begin to live the life that God dreams for you - you take responsibility to prepare for the future.
— Erwin McManus
Parties who want milk should not seat themselves on a stool in the middle of the field in hopes that the cow will back up to them.
— Elbert Hubbard