By a garden is meant mystically a place of spiritual repose, stillness, peace, refreshment, delight.
By a garden is meant mystically a place of spiritual repose, stillness, peace, refreshment, delight.
The aim and final reason of all music should be nothing else but the Glory of God and the refreshment of the spirit.
Ancient traditions have long associated holy wells and springs as very special places of the Goddess or anima mundi symbolic of the Great Mother and associated with birth, the feminine principle, the universal womb, the prima materia, the waters of fertility and refreshment and the fountain of life. The dreaming sites, as they are called, have also been associated with visions, healing, and other paranormal experiences. In ancient Greece, for example, there were more than three-hundred medical centers placed at water sources, where patients experienced healing.
Love is the greatest refreshment in life.
On a long journey of human life, faith is the best of companions it is the best refreshment on the journey And it is the greatest property.
I need not print a line, nor conjure with the painter's tools to prove myself an artist ... Whilst in other spheres of labor the greater part of our life's toil and moil will of a surety end, as the wise man predicted, in vanity and vexation of spirit, here is instant physical refreshment in the work the garden entails, and, in the end, our labor will be crowned with flowers.
Mulberry Garden, now the only place of refreshment about the town for persons of the best quality to be exceeding cheated at.
Still others make gardens because it is part of a full life. To live happily they must invest their hours and aspirations in the activities of another world. And they draw the interest of delight and refreshment according to the measure of their investment. These are usually quaint folk, other-worldly in their manner, but capable of comprehending the idiosyncrasies of Nature as she displays them in a tree and bush and passing season, across the skyline and in the infinite zenith. These, moreover, are the successful gardeners.
The aim and final end of all music should be none other than the glory of God and the refreshment of the soul.
There is more refreshment and stimulation in a nap, even of the briefest, than in all the alcohol ever distilled.
Silence is refreshment for the soul.
New York is my Lourdes, where I go for spiritual refreshment... a place where you're least likely to be bitten by a wild goat.
As one who has often felt this need, and who has found refreshment in wild places, I attest to the recreational value of wilderness.
Yet not so strictly hath our Lord imposed
Labour, as to debar us when we need
Refreshment, whether food, or talk between,
Food of the mind, or this sweet intercourse
Of looks and smiles; for smiles from reason flow,
To brute denied, and are of love the food;
Love, not the lowest end of human life.
True silence is the rest of the mind, and is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.
To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.
© 2020 Inspirational Stories
© 2020 Inspirational Stories