Quotes about Thorns
For wickedness burns like a fire that consumes the thorns and briers and kindles the forest thickets which roll upward in billows of smoke.
— Isaiah 9:18
The world is a head of thistles; whichever way you turn it, it stretches the thorns about itself.
— Martin Luther
For even if they flee destruction, Egypt will gather them and Memphis will bury them. Their precious silver will be taken over by thistles, and thorns will overrun their tents.
— Hosea 9:6
Before your pots can feel the burning thorns—whether green or dry—He will sweep them away.
— Psalm 58:9
And the Light of Israel will become a fire, and its Holy One a flame. In a single day it will burn and devour Assyria’s thorns and thistles.
— Isaiah 10:17
Thorns had grown up everywhere, thistles had covered the ground, and the stone wall was broken down.
— Proverbs 24:31
For this is what the LORD says to the men of Judah and Jerusalem: “Break up your unplowed ground, and do not sow among the thorns.
— Jeremiah 4:3
Other seed fell among thorns, which grew up and choked the seedlings.
— Matthew 13:7
And on that day, in every place that had a thousand vines worth a thousand shekels of silver, only briers and thorns will be found.
— Isaiah 7:23
Men will go there with bow and arrow, for the land will be covered with briers and thorns.
— Isaiah 7:24
They say time heals—and I think this can be true—but only if that's truly the goal here: healing. Time grows the seeds that are planted, watered, and fertilized. Plant beauty, grow beauty. Plant thorns, grow thorns. Time will allow for either.
— Lysa TerKeurst
For fear of the briers and thorns, you will no longer traverse the hills once tilled by the hoe; they will become places for oxen to graze and sheep to trample.
— Isaiah 7:25