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“Of all the duties enjoined by Christianity none is more essential and yet more neglected than prayer.”

Prayer Christianity Duty Essentials Neglected Intercession Answers To Prayer Revival Prayer Christian Prayer Prayers Not Being Answered

Author:Francois Fenelon

“A talkative soul lacks both the essential virtues and intimacy with God. A deeper interior life, one of gentle peace and of that silence where the Lord dwells, is quite out of the question. A soul that has never tasted the sweetness of inner silence is a restless spirit which disturbs the silence of others.”

Soul Spirit Silence Lord Virtue Essentials Deeper Intimacy Gentle Sweetness Interiors Silence Is Restless Intimacy With God Talkative Restless Spirit

Author:Mary Faustina Kowalska

“What is termed Sin is an essential element of progress. Without it the world would stagnate, or grow old, or become colorless. By its curiosity Sin increases the experience of the race. Through its intensified assertion of individualism it saves us from monotony of type. In its rejection of the current notions about morality, it is one with the higher ethics.”

World Grows Sin Race Progress Type Higher Morality Essentials Elements Ethics Increase Notion Curiosity Currents Rejection Individualism Assertion Monotony Colorless

Book:Intentions

Source: Intentions

“In order to persuade Britain to pack up, to compel her to make peace, it was essential to rob her of her hope of being able still to confront us, on the continent itself, with an adversary of a stature equal to our own.”

Stills Able Order Nations Equal Essentials Britain Continents Packs Adversaries Making Peace Stature

Author:Adolf Hitler

“For a people, as for an individual, it is tragic to have ambitions and to lack both the means essential to their fulfillment and any hope of acquiring those means.”

People Mean Individual Nations Essentials Ambition Fulfillment Tragic

Author:Adolf Hitler

“An essential part of any successful action on the part of the United States is an understanding on the part of the people of America of the character of the problem and the remedies to be applied. ... It is virtually impossible at this distance merely by reading, or listening, or even seeing photographs or motion pictures, to grasp at all the real significance of the situation. And yet the whole world of the future hangs on a proper judgment.”

“It is essential to persuade the soldier that those he is being urged to massacre are bandits who do not deserve to live; before killing other good, decent fellows like himself, his gun would fall from his hands.”

Hands Fall Essentials Gun Deserve Army Fellows Killing Soldier Decent Massacres Bandits Killing Others

Author:Andre Gide

“Let no one think that real gardening is a bucolic and meditative occupation. It is an insatiable passion, like everything else to which a man gives his heart.”

Thinking Men Giving Heart Real Passion Essentials Garden Occupation Gardening Gardener Insatiable

Book:The Gardener's Year

Source: The Gardener's Year

“A garden really lives only insofar as it is an expression of faith, the embodiment of a hope and a song of praise.”

Faith Song Hope Expression Essentials Garden Praise Gardening Embodiment

Author:Russell Page

“Gardening gives one back a sense of proportion about everything - except itself.”

Giving Essentials Garden Proportion Gardening Gardener Horticulture Great Garden

Book:Plant Dreaming Deep: A Journal

Source: Plant Dreaming Deep: A Journal

“The most noteworthy thing about gardeners is that they are always optimistic, always enterprising, and never satisfied. They always look forward to doing something better than they have ever done before.”

Looks Done Funny Essentials Garden Satisfied Optimistic Gardening Gardener Something Better Enterprising

Author:Vita Sackville-West

“This garden is no metaphor - more a task that swallows you into itself, earth using, as always, everything it can.”

Earth Essentials Garden Tasks Metaphor Gardening

Book:Of Gravity & Angels

Source: Of Gravity & Angels

“Nature does not complete things. She is chaotic. Man must finish, and he does so by making a garden and building a wall.”

Men Doe Nature Building Wall Essentials Garden Tools Gardening Chaotic

Author:Robert Frost

“Meanwhile the mind, from pleasure less, Withdraws into its happiness; The mind, that ocean where each kind Does straight its own resemblance find; Yet it creates, transcending these, Far other worlds, and other seas; Annihilating all that's made To a green thought in a green glade ... Such was that happy garden-state.”

World Mind Kind Doe Made States Happiness Pleasure Sea Essentials Ocean Garden Green Gardening Other Worlds Resemblance Transcending Garden State

Book:To His Coy Mistress

Source: To His Coy Mistress

“When your garden is finished I hope it will be more beautiful that you anticipated, require less care than you expected, and have cost only a little more than you had planned.”

Littles Care Beautiful Hope Cost Essentials Garden Finished Expected Gardening

Author:Thomas Church

“The man who has planted a garden feels that he has done something for the good of the world.”

Men World Feels Done He Man Essentials Garden Gardening Garden Love Horticulture Planting A Garden

Book:My Summer in a Garden: Easyread Comfort Edition

Source: My Summer in a Garden: Easyread Comfort Edition

“Gardening is a humbling experience.”

Essentials Garden Experience Gardening Humbling Humbling Experiences

Book:Martha Stewart's gardening, month by month

Source: Martha Stewart's gardening, month by month

“Half the interest of a garden is the constant exercise of the imagination.”

Interest Imagination Half Exercise Essentials Garden Constant Gardening Gardener Horticulture

Author:Alice Morse Earle

“Strength may wield the ponderous spade, May turn the clod, and wheel the compost home; But elegance, chief grace the garden shows, And most attractive, is the fair result Of thought, the creature of a polished mind.”

Mind May Shows Home Turns Results Grace Strength Creatures Essentials Fairs Garden Chiefs Attractive Wheels Gardening Elegance Polished Spades Compost

Book:Poetical works

Source: Poetical works

“There be delights that will fetch the day about from sun to sun and rock the tedious year as in a delightful dream ... For a garden is Arcady brought home. It is man's bit of gaudy make-believe - his well-disguised fiction of an unvexed Paradise ... a world where gayety knows no eclipse and winter and rough weather are held at bay.”

“A garden should be in a constant state of fluid change, expansion, experiment, adventure; above all it should be an inquisitive, loving, but self-critical journey on the part of its owner.”

Should Self States Time Change Journey Adventure Essentials Garden Constant Critical Experiments Owners Gardening Expansion Fluid Inquisitive

Author:H. E. Bates

“He who knows what sweets and virtues are in the ground, the plants, the waters, the heavens, and how to come at these enchantments - is the rich and royal man.”

Source: The Selected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson

“I make bean stalks, I'm A builder, like yourself.”

Work Like You Essentials Garden Gardening Beans Stalking Builder Like Yourself

Book:The Edna St. Vincent Millay Collection

Source: The Edna St. Vincent Millay Collection

“How often I admire the taste shown in the garden which, within the house, may be indifferent. Here is an art which is today probably more perfect than at any previous time, one which does not break with the past, while it brings a sense of comely order, and a radiant beauty, to cottage and manor alike.”

May Doe Art Today Past Order House Perfect Beauty Break Taste Essentials Garden Admire Indifference Admiration Gardening Indifferent Radiant Cottages Radiant Beauty

Author:William Rothenstein

“In green old gardens, hidden away From sight of revel and sound of strife, Here I have leisure to breathe and move, And to do my work in a nobler way; To sing my songs, and to say my say; To Dream my dreams, and to love my love; To hold my faith, and to live my life. Making the most of its shadowy day.”

Way Life Dream Moving Faith Song Sound Essentials Garden Sight Green Breathe Leisure Gardening Strife Living My Life

Author:Violet Fane

“The principal value of a garden is not understood. It is not to give the possessors vegetables and fruit (that can be better and cheaper done by the market-gardeners), but to teach him patience and philosophy, and the higher virtues - hope deferred, and expectations blighted, leading directly to resignation, and sometimes to alienation.”

Source: My Summer in a Garden: Easyread Comfort Edition

“To own a bit of ground, to scratch it with a hoe, to plant seeds, and watch the renewal of life - this is the commonest delight of the race, the most satisfactory thing a man can do.”

Source: My Summer in a Garden: Easyread Comfort Edition

“How fair is a garden amid the toils and passions of existence.”

Passion Existence Essentials Fairs Garden Encouragement Gardening Fairness Toil

Book:Sybil, Or, The Two Nations

Source: Sybil, Or, The Two Nations

“What do we look for as reward? Some little sounds, and scents, and scenes A small hand darting strawberry-ward A woman's aprons full of greens. The sense that we have brought to birth Out of the cold and heavy soil, The blessed fruits and flowers of earth Is large reward for our toil.”

Looks Littles Hands Earth Desire Sound Flower Cold Birth Scene Essentials Garden Blessed Fruit Rewards Heavy Soil Gardening Scent Toil Strawberries Aprons Small Hands

Author:Ruth Pitter

“Yes, in the poor man's garden grow Far more than herbs and flowers - Kind thoughts, contentment, peace of mind, And Joy for weary hours.”

Source: Birds and flowers and other country things [in verse].

“A Garden, an Elaboratory, a Work - house, Improvements and Breeding, are pleasant and Profitable Diversions to the Idle and Ingenious: For here they miss Ill Company, and converse with Nature and Art; whose Variety are equally grateful and instructing; and preserve a good Constitution of Body and Mind.”

Source: The Select Works of William Penn....

“To garden is to let optimism get the better of judgment.”

Essentials Judgment Garden Optimism Gardening Inspirational Gardening

Author:Eleanor Perenyi

“That small circle of earth became a second home to both of us. Gardening boring? Never! It has surprise, tragedy, startling developments - a soap opera growing out of the ground. I'd forgotten that tremolo of expectation produced by a tiny forest of sprouts.”

Home Earth Growing Development Essentials Expectations Garden Tragedy Surprise Forgotten Boring Tiny Circles Forests Opera Gardening Soap Soap Operas Sprouts

Author:Paul Fleischman

“Biophilia: the innate pleasure from living abundance and diversity as manifested by the human impulse to imitate Nature with gardens.”

Life Humans Nature Pleasure Essentials Diversity Garden Impulse Abundance Gardening Innate

Author:E. O. Wilson

“One of the most delightful things about a garden is the anticipation it provides.”

Desire Essentials Garden Gardening Anticipation Delightful Gardener Delightful Things

Author:W. E. Johns

“The grower of trees, the gardener, the man born to farming, whose hands reach into the ground and sprout, to him the soil is a divine drug. He enters into death yearly, and comes back rejoicing. He has seen the light lie down in the dung heap, and rise again in the corn.”

Men Hands Light Lying Born Tree Divine He Man Drug Essentials Garden Soil Rejoice Gardening Farming Corn Gardener Sprouts

Book:Farming: A Hand Book

Source: Farming: A Hand Book

“How much the making of a garden, no matter how small, adds to the joy of living, only those who practice the arts and the science can know.”

Knows Life Art Matter Joy Practice Essentials Garden Add Gardening Joy Of Living

Author:Ernest Henry Wilson

“A garden is a love song, a duet between a human being and Mother Nature.”

Humans Mother Song Human Beings Essentials Garden Gardening Mother Nature Flowers And Gardens Duets

Book:Creating a Garden for the Senses

Source: Creating a Garden for the Senses

“'Green fingers' are a fact, and a mystery only to the unpracticed. But green fingers are the extensions of a verdant heart. A good garden cannot be made by somebody who has not developed the capacity to know and love growing things.”

Knows Heart Made Facts Growing Mystery Essentials Capacity Garden And Love Green Fingers Gardening Extensions Growing Things

Author:Russell Page

“Who loves a garden, still his Eden keeps, Perennial pleasures plants, and wholesome harvests reaps.”

Love Stills Pleasure Essentials Garden Plant Gardening Harvest Reap Eden Garden Of Eden Garden Love Planting A Garden

Book:Tablets

Source: Tablets

“A garden is like those pernicious machineries which catch a man's coat-skirt or his hand, and draw in his arm, his leg , and his whole body to irresistible destruction.”

Men Whole Body Hands Evil Arms Essentials Draws Garden Destruction Legs Gardening Coats Machinery Irresistible Skirts Pernicious

Book:The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations

Source: The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations

“A garden is an awful responsibility. You never know what you may be aiding to grow in it.”

Knows May Grows Responsibility Essentials Garden Awful Gardening Ecology

Book:My Summer in a Garden: Easyread Comfort Edition

Source: My Summer in a Garden: Easyread Comfort Edition

“Novelty is an essential attribute of the beautiful.”

Beautiful Beauty Essentials Attributes Novelty

Book:The works of Benjamin Disraeli, earl of Beaconsfield: embracing novels, romances, plays, poems, biography, short stories and great speeches

Source: The works of Benjamin Disraeli, earl of Beaconsfield: embracing novels, romances, plays, poems, biography, short stories and great speeches

“We look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms. The first is freedom of speech and expression. The second is freedom of every person to worship God in his own way. The third is freedom from want. The fourth is freedom from fear.”

“Man has become a superman ... because he not only disposes oinnate, physical forces, but because he is in command ... olatent forces in nature and because he can put them to his service.... But the essential fact we must surely all feel in our hearts ... is that we are becoming inhuman in proportion as we become supermen.”

Men Feels Heart Facts Force Nature Becoming Essentials Command Proportion Inhuman Physical Force

Author:Albert Schweitzer

“Losing is essential to anyone's success. The more you lose, the more you want to win.”

Want Inspirational Motivational Winning Loses Essentials Losing Hockey Nhl

Author:Brett Hull

“In this possibly terminal phase of human existence, democracy and freedom are more than just ideals to be valued - they may be essential to survival.”

Humans May Freedom Existence Democracy Hero Essentials Survival Ideals Thrive Phases Human Existence Democracies Have Terminal Voting And Democracy Democracy Freedom Terminal Disease

Author:Noam Chomsky

“Helping people in need is a good and essential part of my life, a kind of destiny.”

People Needs Kind Helping Destiny Kindness Essentials Helping People

Author:Princess Diana

“Every human being's essential nature is perfect and faultless, but after years of immersion in the world we easily forget our roots and take on a counterfeit nature.”

World Years Humans Human Beings Perfect Forget Essentials Roots Positivity Counterfeit Immersion

Author:Laozi

“Wisdom is the essential basis of greatness.”

Greatness Essentials Bases

Book:Wallace D. Wattles Ultimate Collection – 10 Books in One Volume: The Science of Getting Rich, The Science of Being Well, The Science of Being Great, How to Get What You Want and more: From one of the New Thought pioneers, author of Making of the Man Who Can or How to Promote Yourself and New Science of Living and Healing or Health Through New Thought and Fasting

Source: Wallace D. Wattles Ultimate Collection – 10 Books in One Volume: The Science of Getting Rich, The Science of Being Well, The Science of Being Great, How to Get What You Want and more: From one of the New Thought pioneers, author of Making of the Man Who Can or How to Promote Yourself and New Science of Living and Healing or Health Through New Thought and Fasting