#loom

The gracious, eternal God permits the spirit to green and bloom and to bring forth the most marvelous fruit, surpassing anything a tongue can express and a heart conceive. ↗

— Johannes Tauler

#bloom #bring #conceive #eternal #express

Our gloomy Presbyterian ideas encourage fear of God, not love for him. ↗

— Daniel H. Hill

#fear #gloomy #god #him #ideas

I'm a late bloomer. I believe 40 is the new 19. ↗

— Gabriel Mann

#bloomer #i #i believe #late #late bloomer

The plastic surgery issue is really looming because girls in the U.S. are getting it in their teens. ↗

— Camille Paglia

#getting #issue #looming #plastic #plastic surgery

A gloomy guest fits not a wedding feast. ↗

— Friedrich Schiller

#feast #fits #gloomy #guest

Our bloom is gone. We are the fruit thereof. ↗

— Wallace Stevens

#fruit #gone #our #thereof

In the streets through which we passed, I must own the houses in general struck me as if they were dark and gloomy, and yet at the same time they also struck me as prodigiously great and majestic. ↗

— Karl Philipp Moritz

#dark #general #gloomy #great #houses

Solitude is the soil in which genius is planted, creativity grows, and legends bloom; faith in oneself is the rain that cultivates a hero to endure the storm, and bare the genesis of a new world, a new forest. ↗

— Mike Norton

#bare #bloom #creative #creativity #cultivate

If you feel lost, disappointed, hesitant, or weak, return to yourself, to who you are, here and now and when you get there, you will discover yourself, like a lotus flower in full bloom, even in a muddy pond, beautiful and strong. ↗

— Masaru Emoto

#beautiful #bloom #disappointed #discover #here

God in His infinite wisdom blessed humans with redundant tongues: one to outfit the mouth for speech. And a mother tongue to give it meaning... Though it wags out such inconceivable beauty, attached to the mother tongue lies one much maligned woman. ↗

— David B. Lentz

#bostoniad #david-b-lentz #mother-tongue #beauty