Quotes About Nurturing

I built reservoirs to water my groves of flourishing trees.

If you do not know, O fairest of women, follow the tracks of the flock, and graze your young goats near the tents of the shepherds.

For you have forgotten the God of your salvation and failed to remember the Rock of your refuge. Therefore, though you cultivate delightful plots and set out cuttings from exotic vines—

“Can a woman forget her nursing child, or lack compassion for the son of her womb? Even if she could forget, I will not forget you!

Then you will say in your heart, ëWho has begotten these for me? I was bereaved and barren; I was exiled and rejected. So who has reared them? Look, I was left all alone, so where did they come from?í”

Among all the sons she bore, there is no one to guide her; among all the sons she brought up, there is no one to take her hand.

They will build houses and dwell in them; they will plant vineyards and eat their fruit.

As a mother comforts her son, so will I comfort you, and you will be consoled over Jerusalem.”

“Build houses and settle down. Plant gardens and eat their produce.

Take wives and have sons and daughters. Take wives for your sons and give your daughters in marriage, so that they too may have sons and daughters. Multiply there; do not decrease.

You summoned my attackers on every side, as for the day of an appointed feast. In the day of the LORDís anger no one escaped or survived; my enemy has destroyed those I nurtured and reared.

Even jackals offer their breasts to nurse their young, but the daughter of my people has become cruel, like an ostrich in the wilderness.

It was I who taught Ephraim to walk, taking them in My arms, but they never realized that it was I who healed them.

How miserable those days will be for pregnant and nursing mothers!

ëSir,í the man replied, ëleave it alone again this year, until I dig around it and fertilize it.

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.

I planted the seed and Apollos watered it, but God made it grow.

See, I am ready to come to you a third time, and I will not be a burden, because I am not seeking your possessions, but you. For children should not have to save up for their parents, but parents for their children.

On the contrary, we were gentle among you, like a nursing mother caring for her children.

For you know that we treated each of you as a father treats his own children—