“Humility is the situation of the earth. It's there silent and accepting everything and in a miraculous way making out of all the refuse new richness...transforming corruption itself into a power of life and a new possibility of creativeness, open to the sunshine, open to the rain, ready to receive any seed we sow and capable of bringing thirtyfold, sixtyfold, a hundredfold out of every seed.” WayEarthSituationAcceptingLandPossibilityHumilityReadyCapableRainSilentRefuseCorruptionSeedsSunshineMiraculousRichnessTransformingNew PossibilitiesCreativeness Author:Anthony of Sourozh
“Showers and sunshine bring, Slowly, the deepening verdure o'er the earth; To put their foliage out, the woods are slack, And one by one the singing-birds come back.” EarthSpringSingingBirdWoodsSunshineShowersFoliageSinging Birds Author:William C. Bryant
“life is the greatest gift that could ever be conceived ... A daffodil pushing up through the dark earth to the spring, knowing somehow deep in its roots that spring and light and sunshine will come, has more courage and more knowledge of the value of life than any human being I've met.” LifeHumansLightEarthLife IsValuesDarkHuman BeingsKnowingMetsSpringRootsSunshinePushingGreatest GiftsValue Of LifeMore KnowledgeDaffodil Book:Camilla Source: Camilla
“We who are crushed to earth with heavy chains, who travel a weary, rugged, thorny road, groping through midnight darkness on earth, earn our right to enjoy the sunshine in the great hereafter. At the grave, at least, we should be permitted to lay our burdens down, that a new world, a world of brightness, may open to us. The light that is denied us here should grow into a flood of effulgence beyond the dark, mysterious shadows of death.” WorldShouldMayLightEarthGrowsEnjoyDarkDarknessShadowLaysBurdenHeavyGravesMysteriousChainsSunshineNew WorldDeniedFloodWearyMidnightCrushedHereafterBrightnessRuggedShadow Of Death Book:Behind the scenes; or, Thirty years a slave, and four years in the White house Source: Behind the scenes; or, Thirty years a slave, and four years in the White house
“It is exceedingly deleterious to withdraw the sanction of religion from amusement. If we feel that it is all injurious we should strip the earth of its flowers and blot out its pleasant sunshine.” IfsFeelsShouldEarthFlowerPleasantSunshineAmusementSanctions Author:Edwin Hubbel Chapin