Quotes about Nurturing

Rather than counting on the acquisition of knowledge to support and defend the faith, a trust-centered faith values and honors the wise—those who through experience and mature spiritual habits have earned the right to lead and are given a central role in nurturing faith in others.

The role of the church is to be doctor and nurse, not judge and jury.

He found him in a desert land, in a barren, howling wilderness; He surrounded him, He instructed him, He guarded him as the apple of His eye.

As an eagle stirs up its nest and hovers over its young, He spread His wings to catch them and carried them on His pinions.

Yet You brought me forth from the womb; You made me secure at my mother’s breast.

She rises while it is still night to provide food for her household and portions for her maidservants.

I would lead you and bring you to the house of my mother who taught me. I would give you spiced wine to drink, the nectar of my pomegranates.

For this is what the LORD says: “I will extend peace to her like a river, and the wealth of nations like a flowing stream; you will nurse and be carried on her arm, and bounced upon her knees.

Even jackals offer their breasts to nurse their young, but the daughter of my people has become cruel, like an ostrich in the wilderness.

He took some of the seed of the land and planted it in fertile soil; he placed it by abundant waters and set it out like a willow.

Your mother was like a vine in your vineyard, planted by the water; it was fruitful and full of branches because of the abundant waters.

It was I who taught Ephraim to walk, taking them in My arms, but they never realized that it was I who healed them.