Quotes About Growth

Take notice, O senseless among the people! O fools, when will you be wise?

Blessed is the man You discipline, O LORD, and teach from Your law,

My days are like lengthening shadows, and I wither away like grass.

As for man, his days are like grass—he blooms like a flower of the field;

He makes the grass grow for the livestock and provides crops for man to cultivate, bringing forth food from the earth:

The trees of the LORD have their fill, the cedars of Lebanon that He planted,

And the LORD made His people very fruitful, more numerous than their foes,

He humbled their hearts with hard labor; they stumbled, and there was no one to help.

He causes the hungry to settle there, that they may establish a city in which to dwell.

They sow fields and plant vineyards that yield a fruitful harvest.

He blesses them, and they multiply greatly; He does not let their herds diminish.

But He lifts the needy from affliction and increases their families like flocks.

May the LORD give you increase, both you and your children.

I run in the path of Your commandments, for You will enlarge my heart.

It was good for me to be afflicted, that I might learn Your statutes.

Though I am like a wineskin dried up by smoke, I do not forget Your statutes.

Like arrows in the hand of a warrior, so are children born in oneís youth.

Your wife will be like a fruitful vine flourishing within your house, your sons like olive shoots sitting around your table.

The plowmen plowed over my back; they made their furrows long.

May they be like grass on the rooftops, which withers before it can grow,

Let the righteous man strike me; let his rebuke be an act of loving devotion. It is oil for my head; let me not refuse it. For my prayer is ever against the deeds of the wicked.

Then our sons will be like plants nurtured in their youth, our daughters like corner pillars carved to adorn a palace.

Our storehouses will be full, supplying all manner of produce; our flocks will bring forth thousands, tens of thousands in our fields.

who covers the sky with clouds, who prepares rain for the earth, who makes grass to grow on the hills.