Thorns – Quotes

With thorns in the

With thorns in the inner world there will always be roses in the outer world, in law-able compensation. G. I. Gurdjieff

You send me all these roses. Every time I think the last bouquet has arrived, finally, another turns up. I’m running out of vases. I didn’t know roses came in so many colors. You say they’re the perfect symbols of love because they have thorns and love is pain. I say life is pain, highness. … Read more

At every step the

At every step the child should be allowed to meet the real experience of life; the thorns should never be plucked from his roses. Ellen Key

How could I bear

How could I bear a crown of gold when the Lord bears a crown of thorns? And bears it for me! Elizabeth of Hungary

The only crown Jesus

The only crown Jesus ever wore on earth was a crown of thorns. Elisabeth Elliot

Christ illustrates the purport

Christ illustrates the purport of life as He descends from His transfiguration to toil, and goes forward to exchange that robe of heavenly brightness for the crown of thorns. Edwin Hubbel Chapin

As the rose-tree is

As the rose-tree is composed of the sweetest flowers and the sharpest thorns, as the heavens are sometimes overcast—alternately tempestuous and serene—so is the life of man intermingled with hopes and fears, with joys and sorrows, with pleasure and pain. Edmund Burke

When in the wondrous

When in the wondrous realms above Our Saviour had been called upon, To save our world of sin by love, He said, \”Thy will, O Lord, be done.’ The Kings of kings left worlds of light, Became the meek and lowly one; In brightest day or darkest night He said, \”Thy will, O Lord, be … Read more

Sweet tastes have sour

Sweet tastes have sour closes; and he repents on thorns that sleeps in beds of roses. Francis Quarles

I think most American

I think most American churchgoers are the soil that chokes the seed because of all the thorns. Thorns are anything that distracts us from God. When we want God and a bunch of other stuff, then that means we have thorns in our soil. A relationship with God simply cannot grow when money, sins, activities, … Read more