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Quotes About Tree of Life

Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but a dream fulfilled is a tree of life. —Proverbs 13:12
~ Gary Chapman
Whether you are aware of it or not, one half of your pulmonary system is hanging up there right now on a tree!
~ Sadhguru
And on the Tree of Life,The middle tree and highest there that grew,Sat like a cormorant.
~ John Milton
The fruit of the tree of life in the Garden of Eden possessed supernatural virtue. To eat of it was to live forever. Its fruit was the antidote of death. Its leaves were for the sustaining of life and immortality. But through man's disobedience, death entered the world. Adam ate of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, the fruit of which he had been forbidden to touch. His transgression opened the floodgates of woe upon our race.
~ Ellen G. White
After the entrance of sin, the heavenly Husbandman transplanted the tree of life to the Paradise above; but its branches hang over the wall to the lower world. Through the redemption purchased by the blood of Christ, we may still eat of its life-giving fruit.
~ Ellen G. White
I surrendered my beliefs and found myself at the tree of life injecting my story into the veins of leaves only to find that stories like forests are subject to seasons
~ Saul Williams
We are, whatever our glories and accomplishments, a momentary cosmic accident that would never arise again if the tree of life could be replanted from seed and regrown under similar conditions.
~ Stephen Jay Gould
But last and least known is its additional purpose as a Kabbalistic meditational device that thus, in one more way, links it to ancient Jewish sources. Within it is a wide array of mystical symbols: spheres of the Tree of Life, the pathways of the soul, the four layers of the universe, and the triangles of Philo of Alexandria.
~ Benjamin Blech
Once there was a tree, and she loved a little boy.
~ Shel Silverstein
Hope deferred makes the heart sick." It's not a promise but a warning. Desire realized is a tree of life, and the tree of life is only found in Genesis, Proverbs and Revelation. Genesis is what was, Proverbs is what is, and Revelation is what will be.
~ Bill Johnson
A tree is our most intimate contact with nature.
~ George Nakashima
I surrendered my beliefs and found myself at the tree of life injecting my story into the veins of leaves only to find that stories like forests are subject to seasons
~ Saul Williams
The spine is the tree of life. Respect it.
~ Martha Graham
A tree is a being that is more spiritual than material.
~ Omraam Mikhael Aivanhov
In talking of evolution, it is common to have in mind a tree.
~ Russell Stannard
We are sinful not only because we have eaten of the Tree of Knowledge, but also because we have not yet eaten of the Tree of Life. The state in which we are is sinful, irrespective of guilt.
~ Franz Kafka
Many kinds of fruit grow upon the tree of life, but none so sweet as friendship; as with the orange tree its blossoms and fruit appear at the same time, full of refreshment for sense and for soul.
~ Lucy Larcom
One who is unrestrained in life-delusion overcomes; as the wind a weak tree.
~ Gautama Buddha
And on the Tree of Life, The middle tree and highest there that grew, Sat like a cormorant.
~ John Milton
The tree of life is growing where the spirit never dies, and the bright light of salvation shines in dark and empty skies.
~ Bob Dylan
What does one plant who plants a tree? One plants the friend of sun and sky; One plants the flag of breezes free; The shaft of beauty towering high.
~ Henry Cuyler Bunner
Hang there like fruit, my soul, Till the tree die!
~ William Shakespeare
Trees are where Nature has simply begun
~ Will Advise
A tree depicts divinest plan But God himself lives in a man.
~ Anonymous