Every flower must grow through dirt.
Laurie Jean Sennott
Poverty urges us to do and suffer anything that we may escape from it, and so leads us away from virtue.
Horace (B.C. 65-8)
For the love of a rose, the gardener becomes the slave of a thousand thorns.
Turkish Proverb
As a piece of rope, when burnt, retains its form, but cannot serve to bind, so is the ego which is burnt by the fire of supreme Knowledge.
-Sri Ramakrishna
We can’t comprehend with our human mind the…
We can’t comprehend with our human mind the wisdom of God. Somehow, He can plan out generations, take mistakes, failures, betrayals, closed doors and somehow weave them all together and cause them to work for our good. Only God, in His wisdom, can figure out how to take a mistake from one generation and use it to be a blessing in another generation.
-Joel Osteen