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Quotes about Plowing

Isn’t He actually speaking on our behalf? Indeed, this was written for us, because when the plowman plows and the thresher threshes, they should also expect to share in the harvest.
— 1 Corinthians 9:10
Writing itself is a bad enough trade, rightly held up to ridicule and contempt by the greater part of mankind, and especially by those who do real work, plowing, riding, sailing.
— Hilaire Belloc
Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.
— Frederick Douglass
The main problem of service is to be the way without being "in the way." And if there are any tools, techniques and skills to be learned they are primarily to plow the field, to cut the weeds and to clip the branches, that is, to take away the obstacles for real growth and development.
— Henri Nouwen
Ye have plowed wickedness, ye have reaped iniquity.
— Anonymous