Quotes about Nurture
The focus of spiritual formation is the formation of our spirit.
- Dallas Willard
The life alienated from God collapses when deprived of its support from the sin-laden world. But the life in tune with God is actually nurtured by time spent alone.
- Dallas Willard
My son, do not despise the Lord's discipline and do not resent his rebuke, because the Lord disciplines those he loves, as a father the son he delights in.
- Proverbs 3:11-12
There is no friendship, no love, like that of the mother for the child.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Love in this world doesn't come out of thin air. It is not something thought up. Like ourselves, it grows out of the ground. It has a body and a place.
- Wendell Berry
What the sunshine is to the field and to the flowers the Holy Spirit is to the life of man.
- Henry B. Eyring
There is no friendship, no love, like that of a mother for her child.
- Henry Ward Beecher
There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.
- Henry Ward Beecher
The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom.
- Henry Ward Beecher
What the mother sings to the cradle goes all the way down to the coffin.
- Henry Ward Beecher
The mother's heart is the child's school-room.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Love cannot endure indifference. It needs to be wanted. Like a lamp, it needs to be fed out of the oil of another's heart, or its flame burns low.
- Henry Ward Beecher