Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last. To pluck the mask from the face of the Pharisee is not to lift an impious hand to the Crown of Thorns.
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The world is not respectable; it is mortal, tormented, confused, deluded forever; but it is shot through with beauty, with love, with glints of courage and laughter; and in these, the spirit blooms timidly, and struggles to the light amid the thorns.
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Pause you who read this, and think for a moment of the long chain of iron or gold, of thorns or flowers, that would never have bound you, but for the formation of the first link on one memorable day.
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March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life's path.
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Advance, and never halt, for advancing is perfection. Advance and do not fear the thorns in the path, for they draw only corrupt blood.
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Any man worth his salt has by the time he is forty-five accumulated a crown of thorns, and the problem is to learn to wear it over one ear.
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Imagine one selected day struck out of your life, and think how different its course would have been. Pause you who read this, and think for a moment of the long chain of iron or gold, of thorns or flowers, that would never have bound you, but for the formation of the first link on one memorable day.
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No pain, no palm no thorns, no throne no gall, no glory, no glory no cross, no crown.
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No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown.
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To St. Paul, stripes, stones, shipwrecks, and thorns in the flesh were religious experiences to Judas Iscariot, the daily companionship of Jesus of Nazareth was not.
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And he repents in thorns that sleeps in beds of roses.
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Roses fall, but the thorns remain.
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Some people grumble because roses have thorns; I am thankful that the thorns have roses.
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There is no gathering the rose without being pricked by the thorns.
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Leave her to heaven
And to those thorns that in her bosom lodge,
To prick and sting her.
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Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns. I am thankful that thorns have roses.
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The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious to the rose.
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She who loves roses must be patient and not cry out when she is pierced by thorns.
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If you scatter thorns, don't go barefoot.
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I have seen one shrike occupy himself for hours in sticking up on thorns, a number of small fishes that the fishermen had thrown on the shore. The fishes dried up and decayed.
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Had there been no difficulties and no thorns in the way, then man would have been in his primitive state and no progress made in civilisation and mental culture.
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Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.
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Leave her to heaven And to those thorns that in her bosom lodge, To prick and sting her.
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Leave her to heaven And to those thorns that in her bosom lodge, To prick and sting her.
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You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
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Contrary to popular belief, life is like being thrown into a bed of roses. You get to smell the roses and feel the thorns.
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Had there been no difficulties and no thorns in the way, then man would have been in his primitive state and no progress made in civilization and mental culture.
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Some people get angry because God put thorns on roses, while others praise him for putting roses among thorns.
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You can complain because roses have have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
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Isaiah 5:6:
'I will make it a wasteland, neither pruned nor cultivated, and briers and thorns will grow there. I will command the clouds not to rain on it.'
(NIV)
And I will lay it waste; it shall not be pruned or cultivated, but there shall come up briers and thorns. I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it.
(AMP)
And I will lay it waste: it shall not be pruned, nor digged; but there shall come up briers and thorns: I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it.
(KJV)
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