Quotes About Growth

My wounds are foul and festering because of my sinful folly.

But I am like an olive tree flourishing in the house of God; I trust in the loving devotion of God forever and ever.

You soak its furrows and level its ridges; You soften it with showers and bless its growth.

For You, O God, have tested us; You have refined us like silver.

May he be like rain that falls on freshly cut grass, like spring showers that water the earth.

May there be an abundance of grain in the land; may it sway atop the hills. May its fruit trees flourish like the forests of Lebanon, and its people like the grass of the field.

I was senseless and ignorant; I was a brute beast before You.

like men wielding axes in a thicket of trees

I considered the days of old, the years long in the past.

You uprooted a vine from Egypt; You drove out the nations and transplanted it.

You cleared the ground for it, and it took root and filled the land.

The mountains were covered by its shade, and the mighty cedars with its branches.

It sent out its branches to the Sea, and its shoots toward the River.

the root Your right hand has planted, the son You have raised up for Yourself.

who said, “Let us possess for ourselves the pastures of God.”

As they pass through the Valley of Baca, they make it a place of springs; even the autumn rain covers it with pools.

They go from strength to strength, until each appears before God in Zion.

Faithfulness sprouts from the earth, and righteousness looks down from heaven.

The LORD will indeed provide what is good, and our land will yield its increase.

in the morning it springs up new, but by evening it fades and withers.

A senseless man does not know, and a fool does not understand,

The righteous will flourish like a palm tree, and grow like a cedar in Lebanon.

Planted in the house of the LORD, they will flourish in the courts of our God.

In old age they will still bear fruit; healthy and green they will remain,