Mustard Seed Quotes

• I never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small, for it is wonderful how often in such matters the mustard-seed germinates and roots itself.

  Florence Nightingale

  Women, Nursing, Opportunity

  "The Life of Florence Nightingale" Vol. II, by Edward Tyas Cook, (p. 406), 1914.

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• I think faith is the small mustard seed of opportunities every day. For example, 'Am I going to love this person? Am I going to share my faith with this person? Am I going to pray that little prayer?' It really is a daily thing where you seize those little mustard seed opportunities and then see what God does.

  Mark Batterson

  Prayer, Opportunity, Thinking

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• I have a mustard seed; and I am not afraid to use it.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Catholic, Use, Not Afraid

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• Energy, like the biblical grain of the mustard-seed, will remove mountains.

  Hosea Ballou

  Biblical, Mountain, Energy

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• As long as we have unsolved problems, unfulfilled desires, and a mustard seed of faith, we have all we need for a vibrant prayer life.

  John Ortberg

  Prayer, Long, Desire

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• Faith is the avenue to salvation. Not intellectual understanding. Not money. Not your works. Just simple faith. How much faith? The faith of a mustard seed, so small you can hardly see it. But if you will put that little faith in the person of Jesus, your life will be changed. He will come with supernatural power into your heart. It can happen to you.

  Billy Graham

  Spiritual, Jesus, Heart

  Billy Graham (1966). “The Quotable Billy Graham”

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• The kingdom of God is like a mustard seed. It happens quietly. It happens inevitably. Don’t underestimate God’s power.

  Alistair Begg

  Kingdoms, Underestimate, Kingdom Of God

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• If you've got just a little bit of faith as a grain of mustard seed, and begin to praise God - that faith will mount up, until fear won't be able to stay in your heart.

  Jack Coe

  Heart, Littles, Able

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• No faith is required to do the possible; actually only a morsel of this atom-powered stuff is needed to do the impossible, for a piece as large as a mustard seed will do more than we have ever dreamed of.

  Leonard Ravenhill

  Atoms, Pieces, Stuff

  Leonard Ravenhill (2004). “Why Revival Tarries”, p.47, Bethany House

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• I send you a kaffis of mustard seed, that you may taste and acknowledge the bitterness of my victory.

  Alexander the Great

  Victory, May, Taste

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• The kingdom of God is like a mustard seed, beginning as the smallest of seeds but growing until the birds of the air make their nests therein. There are old worlds and new ones. There are earthy worlds and cyber worlds. But one truth remains the same now and forever, that Jesus rules them all.

  R. C. Sproul, Jr.

  Jesus, Air, Bird

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• I never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small...

  Florence Nightingale

  Nursing, Opportunity, Nurse

  "The Life of Florence Nightingale" Vol. II, by Edward Tyas Cook, (p. 406), 1914.

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• Any human love a man gets he can make fill his life. It's like the grain of mustard-seed.

  William John Locke

  Men, Grain, Humans

  William John Locke (1903). “Where Love is: A Novel”

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• This is a book about Heaven. I know it now. It floats among us like a cloud and is the realest thing we know and the least to be captured, the least to be possessed by anybody for himself. It is like a grain of mustard seed, which you cannot see among the crumbs of earth where it lies. It is like the reflection of the trees on the water.

  Wendell Berry

  Lying, Book, Reflection

  Wendell Berry (2000). “Jayber Crow: A Novel”, Counterpoint LLC

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• We wove a web in childhood, A web of sunny air; We dug a spring in infancy Of water pure and fair; We sowed in youth a mustard seed, We cut an almond rod; We are now grown up to riper age— Are they withered in the sod?

  Charlotte Bronte

  Spring, Cutting, Air

  '19 December 1835'

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• Man gains wider dominion by his intellect than by his right arm. The mustard-seed of thought is a pregnant treasury of vast results. Like the germ in the Egyptian tombs its vitality never perishes; and its fruit will spring up after it has been buried for long ages.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Spring, Men, Long

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• ... our "Physick" and "Anatomy" have embraced such infinite varieties of being, have laid open such new worlds in time and space, have grappled, not unsuccessfully, with such complex problems, that the eyes of Vesalius and of Harvey might be dazzled by the sight of the tree that has grown out of their grain of mustard seed.

  Thomas Huxley

  Eye, Science, Sight

  Thomas Henry Huxley (1910). “Huxley's Autobiography and Selected Essays from Lay Sermons”

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• Even the greatest fool can accomplish a task if it be after his heart. But the intelligent man is he who can convert every work into one that suits his taste. No work is petty. Everything in this world is like a banyan seed, which, though appearing tiny as a mustard seed, has yet the gigantic banyan tree latent with it. He indeed is intelligent who notices this and succeeds in making all work truly great.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Heart, Intelligent, Men

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Personality Development”, p.34, Advaita Ashrama

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• I've got to think that that was unethical," Joshua said. "Josh, faking demonic possession is like a mustard seed." "How is it like a mustard seed?" "You don't know, do you? Doesn't seem at all like a mustard seed, does it? Now you see how we all feel when you liken things unto a mustard seed? Huh?

  Christopher Moore

  Thinking, Doe, Said

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• They are prepared for a God who strikes hard bargains but not for a God who gives as much for an hour's work as for a day's. They are prepared for a mustard-seed kingdom of God no bigger than the eye of a newt but not for the great banyan it becomes with birds in its branches singing Mozart. They are prepared for the potluck supper at First Presbyterian but not for the marriage supper of the lamb.

  Frederick Buechner

  Eye, Giving, Bird

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