Vigen Guroian Quotes

• I think gardening is nearer to godliness than theology. True gardeners are both iconographers and theologians insofar as these activities are the fruit of prayer 'without ceasing.' Likewise, true gardeners never cease to garden, not even in their sleep, because gardening is not just something they do. It is how they live.

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  Prayer, Sleep, Garden

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• I think that gardening is nearer to godliness than theology.

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  Thinking, Religion, Gardening

  Vigen Guroian (2001). “Inheriting Paradise: Meditations on Gardening”, p.106, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• Let every Christian be a gardener so that he and she and the whole of creation, which groans in expectation of the Spirit's final harvest, may inherit Paradise. If we Christian's truly treasure the hope that one day we, like Adam and the penitent thief, will walk alongside the One who caused even the dead wood of the Cross to blossom with flowers, then we must also imitate the Master's art and make the desolate earth grow green.

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  Christian, Art, Flower

  Vigen Guroian (2001). “Inheriting Paradise: Meditations on Gardening”, p.17, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• Colleges [have] forfeited the responsibilities of in loco parentis and have gone into the pimping and brothel business.

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  Responsibility, College, Gone

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• Gardening symbolizes our race's primordial acceptance of a responsibility and role in rectifying the harm done to the creation through sin.

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  Responsibility, Acceptance, Race

  Vigen Guroian (2001). “Inheriting Paradise: Meditations on Gardening”, p.14, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• I think if we all gardened more, they and all of the other birds that fly in the air above and light in my garden below would be better off. I know that God values them no less than I do. So when I plant in spring I also hope to taste of God in fruit of summer sun and sight of feathered friends.

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  Summer, Spring, Garden

  Vigen Guroian (2001). “Inheriting Paradise: Meditations on Gardening”, p.106, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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