Sermon quotes on soil
Henry Ward Beecher
When a man’s pride is subdued it’s like the sides of Mount Aetna. It was terrible during the eruption, but when that is over and the lava is turned into soil, there are vineyards and olive trees which grow up to the top.Â
Wendell Berry
The soil is the great connector of lives, the source and destination of all. It is the healer and restorer and resurrector, by which disease passes into health, age into youth, death into life. Without proper care for it we can have no community, because without proper care for it we can have no life.
Wendell Berry
Good farmers, who take seriously their duties as stewards of Creation and of their land’s inheritors, contribute to the welfare of society in more ways than society usually acknowledges, or even knows. These farmers produce valuable goods, of course; but they also conserve soil, they conserve water, they conserve wildlife, they conserve open space, they conserve scenery.
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Malcolm Boyd
Our prayers must spring from the indigenous soil of our own personal confrontation with the Spirit of God in our lives.
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Leonardo da Vinci
Even the richest soil, if left uncultivated will produce the rankest weeds.
Annie Dillard
The point of the dragonfly’s terrible lip, the giant water bug, birdsong, or the beautiful dazzle and flash of sunlighted minnows, is not that it all fits together like clockwork–for it doesn’t but that it all flows so freely wild, like the creek, that it all surges in such a free, finged tangle. Freedom is the world’s water and weather, the world’s nourishment freely given, its soil and sap: and the creator loves pizzazz.
Meister Eckhart
What we plant in the soil of contemplation, we shall reap in the harvest of action.
Vance Havner
God uses broken things. It takes broken soil to produce a crop, broken clouds to give rain, broken grain to give bread, broken bread to give strength. It is the broken alabaster box that gives forth perfume. It is Peter, weeping bitterly, who returns to greater power than ever.
Albert Howard
Fertility of the soil is the future of civilization.
Eugene Peterson
The Latin words humus, soil/earth, and homo, human being, have a common derivation, from which we also get our word ‘humble.’ This is the Genesis origin of who we are: dust – dust that the Lord God used to make us a human being. If we cultivate a lively sense of our origin and nurture a sense of continuity with it, who knows, we may also acquire humility.
Chris Nye
We cannot abandon the soil for the microwave.
Less of More: Pursuing Spiritual Abundance in a World of Never Enough
Meister Eckhart Â
What we plant in the soil of contemplation, we shall reap in the harvest of action.
In His Quae Patris, Sermon on Luke 2:49. See Meister Eckhart: A Modern Translation, trans. Raymond Bernard Blakney (Harper and Brothers: 1941), 111.
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