#harvest

We accept it because we have seen the vision. We know that we cannot reap the harvest, but we hope that we may so well prepare the land and so diligently sow the seed that our successors may gather the ripened grain. ↗

— Liberty Hyde Bailey

#because #cannot #diligently #gather #grain

Care less for your harvest than for how it is shared and your life will have meaning and your heart will have peace. ↗

— Kent Nerburn

#harvest #heart #how #less #life

Every portal coming into this country is being attacked by those who would harvest information, both national security secrets and just the common information of private individuals and private individuals. That crime is going on, every day, on a single entity known as the Internet. ↗

— Darrell Issa

#being #both #coming #common #country

The day of fortune is like a harvest day, We must be busy when the corn is ripe. ↗

— Torquato Tasso

#corn #day #fortune #harvest #like

As soon as I knew that I would be all right, I was sure that I was dead and didn't know it. I moved through the days like a severed head that finishes a sentence. I waited for the moment that would snap me out of my seeming life. ↗

— Amy Hempel

#life #the-harvest #death

Now if the harvest is over, And the world cold, Give me the bonus of laughter, As I lose hold. ↗

— John Betjeman

#cold #give #give me #harvest #hold

The fields...are white already to harvest" (John 4:35 KJV), or as other versions put it, "ripe for harvest."...One part of the harvest metaphor we may have missed was the importance of timing-there is a season for both sowing and reaping, and sometimes there is a season of simply waiting and watering. ↗

— Keri Wyatt Kent

#harvest #religion #faith

The man who sows wrong thoughts and deeds and prays that God will bless him is in the position of a farmer who, having sown tares, asks God to bring forth for him a harvest of wheat. ↗

— James Allen

#bless #bring #deeds #farmer #forth

The year goes wrong, and tares grow strong, Hope starves without a crumb; But God's time is our harvest time, And that is sure to come. ↗

— Lewis J. Bates

#crumb #god #goes #grow #harvest

Many are needed to plant and water what has been planted now that the faith has spread so far and there are so many people... No matter who plants or waters, God gives no harvest unless what is planted is the faith of Peter and unless he agrees to his teachings. ↗

— Thomas Becket

#faith #far #gives #god #harvest