Rooted Quotes

• You know, one day you look at the person and you see something more than you did the night before. Like a switch has been flicked somewhere. And the person who was just a friend is... suddenly the only person you can ever imagine yourself with.

  Gillian Anderson

  Relationship, Night, Just Friends

  "The X-Files: The Rain King". TV Series, www.imdb.com. 1999.

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• Look at a tree, a flower, a plant. Let your awareness rest upon it. How still they are, how deeply rooted in Being. Allow nature to teach you stillness.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Flower, Tree, Looks

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “Stillness Speaks”, p.5, New World Library

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• To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.

  Simone Weil

  Soul, Important, Needs

  Simone Weil (2003). “The Need for Roots: Prelude to a Declaration of Duties Towards Mankind”, p.43, Routledge

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• Faith is like a tender plant, rooted in Christ alone, watered by the Spirit and the Word, strengthened by the winds of adversity and the sunshine of blessing.

  Anne Graham Lotz

  Adversity, Sunshine, Blessing

  FaceBook post by Anne Graham Lotz from May 23, 2013

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• I never saw a discontented tree. They grip the ground as though they liked it, and though fast rooted they travel about as far as we do.

  John Muir

  Happiness, Nature, Travel

  John Muir, Edwin Way Teale, Henry Bugbee Kane (2001). “The Wilderness World of John Muir”, p.315, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The courage to be is rooted in the God who appears when God has disappeared in the anxiety of doubt.

  Paul Tillich

  Courage, Anxiety, Doubt

  Paul Tillich, F. Forrester Church (1999). “The Essential Tillich”, p.193, University of Chicago Press

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  Our life is all grounded and rooted in love, and without love we may not live.

  Julian of Norwich

  Life, May, Grounded

  Julian of Norwich (2013). “SHOWING OF LOVE”, p.117, Lulu.com

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• Won't the awareness God loves us no matter what lead to spiritual laziness and moral laxity? Theoretically, this seems a reasonable fear, but in reality the opposite is true. . . . The more rooted we are in the love of God, the more generously we will live our faith.

  Brennan Manning

  Spiritual, Reality, Opposites

  Brennan Manning (2004). “The Relentless Tenderness of Jesus”, p.28, Revell

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• The world is waiting for new saints, ecstatic men and women who are so deeply rooted in the love of God that they are free to imagine a new international order.

  Henri Nouwen

  Men, Order, Waiting

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• Where there is a rotten root, there will always be rotten fruit. We must be rooted in Jesus Christ.

  Joyce Meyer

  Jesus, Roots, Rotten

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• Decision is a risk rooted in the courage of being free.

  Paul Tillich

  Decision, Risk, Being Free

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• I adore Life. What do all the fools matter and all the stupidity. They do matter but somehow for me they cannot touch the body of Life. Life is marvellous. I want to be deeply rooted in it - to live - to expand - to breathe in it - to rejoice - to share it. To give and to be asked for Love.

  Katherine Mansfield

  Giving, Stupidity, Body

  Katherine Mansfield, Vincent O'Sullivan, Margaret Scott (1984). “The Collected Letters of Katherine Mansfield: 1919-1920”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• A life rooted deeply lives and grows in memory.

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Memories, Good Memories, Grows

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• The ego must be able to listen attentively and to give itself, without any further design or purpose, to that inner urge toward growth. People living in cultures more securely rooted than our own have less trouble in understanding that it is necessary to give up the utilitarian attitude of conscious planning in order to make way for the inner growth of the personality.

  Marie-Louise von Franz

  Giving Up, Attitude, Order

  "The Process of Individuation". "Man and His Symbols". Book by Carl Jung and Marie-Louise von Franz, part 3, p. 163, 1964.

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• I am convinced now that virtually every destructive behavior and addiction I battled off and on for years was rooted in my (well-earned) insecurity.

  Beth Moore

  Years, Addiction, Insecurity

  Beth Moore (2010). “So Long, Insecurity: You've Been a Bad Friend to Us”, p.150, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• As you become more rooted inside -- as you drink from this silent stream of life that runs beneath the surface of everything -- as you live from that depth of your own being more and more, then you’ll be able to rise taller and stronger in this world; more than you may have ever thought possible.

  Derek Rydall

  Running, Stronger, Depth

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• The ignorant mind, with its infinite afflictions, passions, and evils, is rooted in the three poisons. Greed, anger, and delusion.

  Bodhidharma

  Anger, Passion, Ignorant Masses

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• If your faith isn't rooted in the Bible, it will wither like a plant pulled out of the soil.

  Billy Graham

  Soil, Plant, Ifs

  Billy Graham (2007). “The Journey: Living by Faith in an Uncertain World”, p.105, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• In the given circumstances you must be rooted in the play. Do not depart from the play. Don't cut yourself off from your partner in the scene, or partners.

  Constantin Stanislavski

  Cutting, Play, Scene

  Source: bigthink.com

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• I'm going to come back to West Virginia when this is over. There's something ancient and deeply-rooted in my soul. I like to think that I have left my ghost up one of those hollows, and I'll never really be able to leave for good until I find it. And I don't want to look for it, because I might find it and have to leave." - from a letter to his mother Helen Pancake that Breece wrote in Charlottesville, where he was studying writing.

  Breece D'J Pancake

  Mother, Writing, Thinking

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• If you're rooted to a spot, you miss a lot of the grace. So you keep moving, and this is the way I think the world's stories should be told - from many different perspectives.

  Chinua Achebe

  Moving, Thinking, Perspective

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• For knowledge to become wisdom, and for the soul to grow, the soul must be rooted in God: and it is through prayer that there comes to us that which is the strength of our strength, and the virtue of our virtue, the Holy Spirit.

  William Mountford

  Wisdom, Prayer, Soul

  William Mountford (1858). “Euthanasy, Or Happy Talk Towards the End of Life”, p.34

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• To be in love involves the most irresistible conviction that one will go on being in love until one dies, and that possession of the beloved will confer, not merely frequent ecstasies, but settled, fruitful, deep-rooted, lifelong happiness.

  C. S. Lewis

  Being In Love, Goes On, Beloved

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• The Life of true holiness is rooted in the soil of awed adoration

  J. I. Packer

  Holiness, Soil, Adoration

  J. I. Packer (2009). “Rediscovering Holiness: Know the Fullness of Life with God”, p.53, Baker Books

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• God is love. His plan for creation can only be rooted in love. Does not that simple thought, rather than erudite reasoning, offer solace to the human heart?

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  God, Heart, Simple

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