Quotes About Growth

They will return and dwell in his shade; they will grow grain and blossom like the vine. His renown will be like the wine of Lebanon.

Do not be afraid, O beasts of the field, for the open pastures have turned green, the trees bear their fruit, and the fig tree and vine yield their best.

The threshing floors will be full of grain, and the vats will overflow with new wine and oil.

I will restore My people Israel from captivity; they will rebuild and inhabit the ruined cities. They will plant vineyards and drink their wine; they will make gardens and eat their fruit.

So the LORD God appointed a vine, and it grew up to provide shade over Jonahís head to ease his discomfort, and Jonah was greatly pleased with the plant.

But the LORD said, “You cared about the plant, which you neither tended nor made grow. It sprang up in a night and perished in a night.

The day for rebuilding your walls will come—the day for extending your boundary.

Consider carefully from this day forward—from the twenty-fourth day of the ninth month, the day the foundation of the LORDís temple was laid—consider carefully:

Is there still seed in the barn? The vine, the fig, the pomegranate, and the olive tree have not yet yielded fruit. But from this day on, I will bless you.”

and said to him, “Run and tell that young man: ëJerusalem will be a city without walls because of the multitude of men and livestock within it.

There are also two olive trees beside it, one on the right side of the bowl and the other on its left.”

For who has despised the day of small things? But these seven eyes of the LORD, which scan the whole earth, will rejoice when they see the plumb line in the hand of Zerubbabel.”

And the streets of the city will be filled with boys and girls playing there.”

“For the seed will be prosperous, the vine will yield its fruit, the ground will yield its produce, and the skies will give their dew. To the remnant of this people I will give all these things as an inheritance.

How lovely they will be, and how beautiful! Grain will make the young men flourish, and new wine, the young women.

Produce fruit, then, in keeping with repentance.

The axe lies ready at the root of the trees, and every tree that does not produce good fruit will be cut down and thrown into the fire.

Be perfect, therefore, as your heavenly Father is perfect.

And why do you worry about clothes? Consider how the lilies of the field grow: They do not labor or spin.

Why do you look at the speck in your brotherís eye, but fail to notice the beam in your own eye?

You hypocrite! First take the beam out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brotherís eye.

Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.

No one sews a patch of unshrunk cloth on an old garment. For the patch will pull away from the garment, and a worse tear will result.

Neither do men pour new wine into old wineskins. If they do, the skins will burst, the wine will spill, and the wineskins will be ruined. Instead, they pour new wine into new wineskins, and both are preserved.”