Quotes About Reaping

death, the greatest enemy, would put in an appearance today. Now that he was here he was sure of it. Death seemed to be holding so many souls in the balance of his reaping hand.

Plant a kernel of wheat and you reap a pint; plant a pint and you reap a bushel. Always the law works to give you back more than you give.

I made this film for the Brazilian middle class. It was an opportunity for me to find out more about my country. We abandoned this part of society and now we are reaping the consequences. – Director Fernando Meirelles

Yet what I sowed and what the orchard yieldsMy brother's sons are gathering stalk and root,Small wonder then my children glean in fieldsThey have not sown, and feed on bitter fruit.

You reap what you sow — not something else, but that. An act of love makes the soul more loving. A deed of humbleness deepens humbleness. The thing reaped is the very thing sown, multiplied a hundred fold. You have sown a seed of life, you reap life everlasting.

It is like the seed put in the soil - the more one sows, the greater the harvest.

Patience is necessary, and one cannot reap immediately where one has sown.

You will always harvest what you plant. —Galatians 6:7

In the checkered area of human experience the seasons are all mingled as in the golden age: fruit and blossom hang together; in the same moment the sickle is reaping and the seed is sprinkled; one tends the green cluster and another treads the winepress. Nay, in each of our lives harvest and spring-time are continually one, until himself gathers us and sows us anew in his invisible fields.

I cast my bread on the waters long ago. Now it's time for you to send it back to me - toasted and buttered on both sides.

No season lasts forever because all of life is a cycle of planting, reaping, resting, and renewal. Winter is not infinite: even if you're having challenges today, you can never give up on the coming of spring. For some people, winter means hibernation; for others, it means bobsledding and downhill skiing! You can always just wait out the season, but why not make it into a time to remember?

If he cannot reap his profits fairly cannot restrain himself from outrage— mad, laying hands on the holy things untouchable!

It has been said that he is a fool who works for philosophy instead of making philosophy work for him; but a man cannot give to the world even a little of a true philosophy without reaping sevenfold himself.

The phrase 'NFL combine' always sounds redundant, because the league is a combine harvester, reaping and threshing everything in its path.

God gives as the wheat gives: we sow one grain, and reap a hundred.

A man has cause for regret only when he sows and no one reaps.

Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. —GALATIANS 6:7

Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.

The gardener's rule applies to youth and age: When young 'sow wild oats'; but when old, grow sage.

Harvest time is a time of joy.

Did you ever consider how ridiculous it would be to try to cram on a farm—to forget to plant in the spring, play all summer and then cram in the fall to bring in the harvest? The farm is a natural system. The price must be paid and the process followed. You always reap what you sow; there is no shortcut.

Did you ever consider how ridiculous it would be to try to cram on a farm—to forget to plant in the spring, play all summer and then cram in the fall to bring in the harvest? The farm is a natural system. The price must be paid and the process followed. You always reap what you sow; there is no shortcut. This principle is also true, ultimately, in human behavior, in human relationships.

The problems in life come when we're sowing one thing and expecting to reap something entirely different.

Perhaps, in utilizing our human capacity to build on the foundation of generations before us, we have inadvertently become so focused on our own building that we have forgotten the foundation that holds it up; or in reaping for so long where we have not sown, perhaps we have forgotten the need to sow.