Quotes about Nurture

God appoints our graces to be nurses to other men's weaknesses.

I knew God wanted to do much more...and he would, if we provided good soil in which he could work.

Breed is stronger than pasture.

Don't leave your relationships to chance. Pray for godly people to come into your life with whom you can connect. Don't force relationships to happen. Pray for them to happen. Then when they do, nurture them with prayer.

Therefore, in order to take care of you, I have to take care of myself.

It be urged that the wild and uncultivated tree, hitherto yielding sour and bitter fruit only, can never be made to yield better; yet we know that the grafting art implants a new tree on the savage stock, producing what is most estimable in kind and degree. Education, in like manner, engrafts a new man on the native stock, and improves what in his nature was vicious and perverse into qualities of virtue and social worth.

Every moment and every event of every man's life on earth plants something in his soul.

Home ought to be our clearinghouse, the place from which we go forth lessoned and disciplined, and ready for life.

The homemaker has the ultimate career. All other careers exist for one purpose only - and that is to support the ultimate career.

No culture of the mind is enough to make a garden out of your soul.

It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.

Mothers, on the other hand, are trees with firm roots.