Prayer Beads - Plant Seeds Used For Making Prayer Beads

Famous quotes containing the words plant, seeds, making, prayer and/or beads:

“I please
To plant some more dew-wet anemones
That they may weep.”
—Unknown. The Thousand and One Nights.

AWP. Anthology of World Poetry, An. Mark Van Doren, ed. (Rev. and enl. Ed., 1936)

“No habit or quality is more easily acquired than hypocrisy, nor any thing sooner learned than to deny the sentiments of our hearts and the principle we act from: but the seeds of every passion are innate to us, and nobody comes into the world without them.”
—Bernard Mandeville (1670–1733)

“Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable.”
—Voltaire [François Marie Arouet] (1694–1778)

“But the angel said to him, “Do not be afraid, Zechariah, for your prayer has been heard. Your wife Elizabeth will bear you a son, and you will name him John. You will have joy and gladness, and many will rejoice at his birth, for he will be great in the sight of the Lord. He must never drink wine or strong drink; even before his birth he will be filled with the Holy Spirit.”
—Bible: New Testament, Luke 1:13-15.

“Irish Catholics are more interested in the rosary beads than in the rosary ...”
—Bernadette Devlin (b. 1947)