Quotes about Pruning
Now no man, though he prunes, wittingly casts away what is good.
— St. Augustine
Grateful people learn to celebrate even amid life's hard and harrowing memories because they know that pruning is no mere punishment, but preparation.
— Henri Nouwen
Everything has seasons, and we have to be able to recognize when something's time has passed and be able to move into the next season. Everything that is alive requires pruning as well, which is a great metaphor for endings.
— Henry Cloud
Just as there are seasons of growth, there are seasons of pruning. Without pruning, we won't become all we are created to be. God won't let you go through a cutback if it's not going to eventually work for your good.
— Joel Osteen
The multiplication of public offices, increase of expense beyond income, growth and entailment of a public debt are indications soliciting the employment of the pruning knife.
— Thomas Jefferson
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.
— Rob Bell
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.
— Tertullian
God prunes us when He is about to take us into a new season of growth and expansion.
— Christine Caine
The seed of God's Word won't grow to fruitfulness without pruning for rest, quiet, and calm
— Kevin DeYoung
The seed of God's Word won't grow to fruitfulness without pruning for rest, quiet, and calm
— Kevin DeYoung