Quotes about Nurture
You have to work to keep love alive; you have to protect it and maintain it, just like you would a delicate flower.
— James Dobson
Love children especially, for they too are sinless like the angels; they live to soften and purify our hearts and, as it were, to guide us.
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
God created the family to provide the maximum love and support and morality and example that one can imagine.
— Jerry Falwell
We should be willing to act as a balm for all wounds.
— Etty Hillesum
We fill our minds with the stories of God's acts. Joy has a history. Joy is the verified, repeated experience of those involved in what God is doing. It is as real as a date in history, as solid as a stratum of rock in Palestine. Joy is nurtured by living in such a history, building on such a foundation.
— Eugene Peterson
Blossoming flowers look beautiful before they're cut or picked, but without soil or water they wither more quickly than grass.
— Eugene Peterson
Train up a fig tree in the way it should go, and when you are old sit under the shade of it.
— Charles Dickens
One is wise to cultivate the tree that bears fruit in our soul.
— Henry David Thoreau
Our moral faculties must be placed highest, else they can no more flourish than could a plant growing under the shade and drip of trees.
— Henry Ward Beecher
The most important medicine is tender love and care.
— Mother Teresa
Love is the most important healing power there is.
— Louise Hay
In response to the question, 'How can we help to promote world peace?' Mother Theresa replied, 'Go home and love your children.
— Mother Teresa