We search the world for truth we cull The good the pure the beautiful From all old flower fields of the soul And weary seekers of the best We come back laden from our quest To find that all the sages said Is in the Book our mothers read.

John Greenleaf Whittier
Some Similar Quotes
  1. The Sabbath day of rest establishes the reality that God's people live by God's grace and not by their own labors. - Anonymous

  2. Scripture was given to the church, and theology is a necessary work of the church, by the church, in the church, and for the church. - Kenneth S. Kantzer

  3. It means what it say, " Ethel said. "It means that a Hebrew may not enslave a Hebrew. But the sons of Ham are not of that tribe. The were cursed, with black skin and tails. Where the Scripture condemns slavery, it is not speaking... - Colson Whitehead

  4. A glory gilds the sacred page Majestic like the sun It gives a light to every age It gives but borrows none. - William Cowper

  5. Thy word is a lamp unto my feet and a light unto my path. - Bible

More Quotes By John Greenleaf Whittier
  1. Of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these, 'It might have been.

  2. So all night long the storm roared on: The morning broke without a sun; In tiny spherule traced with lines Of Nature’s geometric signs, In starry flake, and pellicle, All day the hoary meteor fell; And, when the second morning shone, We looked upon a...

  3. The joy that you give to others is the joy that comes back to you

  4. The tints of autumn...a mighty flower garden blossoming under the spell of the enchanter, frost.

  5. Methinks I see the sunset light flooding the river valley, the western hills stretching to the horizon, overhung with trees gorgeous and glowing with the tints of autumn -- a mighty flower garden blossoming under the spell of the enchanter, frost.

Related Topics