Quotes about Ripening

and on the vine were three branches. As it budded, its blossoms opened and its clusters ripened into grapes.

One basket had very good figs, like those that ripen early, but the other basket contained very poor figs, so bad they could not be eaten.

All by itself the earth produces a crop—first the stalk, then the head, then grain that ripens within.

It is my feeling that Time ripens all things with Time all things are revealed Time is the father of truth.

The earth bringeth forth fruit of herself; first the blade, then the ear, after that the full corn in the ear.

Gardeners slaughter no animals. They kill nothing. Fruits, seeds, vegetables, nuts, grains, grasses, roots, flowers, herbs, berries-all are collected when they have ripened, and when their collection is in the interest of the garden's heightened and continued vitality. Harvesting respects a source, leaves it unexploited, suffers it to be as it is.

Wherever souls are being tried and ripened, in whatever commonplace and homely way, there God is hewing out the pillars for His temple.