Quotes about Pruning

In very deed, pestilence, and famine, and wars, and earthquakes have to be regarded as a remedy for nations, as the means of pruning the luxuriance of the human race.

When Isaiah predicted that spears would become pruning hooks, that's a reference to cultivating. Pruning and trimming and growing and paying close attention to the plants and whether they're getting enough water and if their roots are deep enough. Soil under the fingernails, grapes being trampled under bare feet, fingers sticky from handling fresh fruit. It's that green stripe you get around the sole of your shoes when you mow the lawn. Life in the age to come. Earthy.

Behold, the Lord GOD of Hosts will lop off the branches with terrifying power. The tall trees will be cut down, the lofty ones will be felled.

Now no man, though he prunes, wittingly casts away what is good.

For six years you may sow your field and prune your vineyard and gather its crops.

Pruning includes purging the wrong thinking, the negative attitudes, and the wrong people that surround you.

The seed of God's Word won't grow to fruitfulness without pruning for rest, quiet, and calm

The vine-dresser is never closer to the vine, taking more thought over its long-term health and productivity, than when he has the knife in his hand. JOHN

He cuts off every branch in Me that bears no fruit, and every branch that does bear fruit, He prunes to make it even more fruitful.

‘Sir,’ the man replied, ‘leave it alone again this year, until I dig around it and fertilize it.

God prunes us when He is about to take us into a new season of growth and expansion.