Blossoms slowly open all along tree branches. Tulips and daffodils don bright shades of color. Grass grows taller under our feet. New calves fill the greening pastures. Life sprouts all around us.
What a life-change these silent spring workings bring to the world. In just a few week’s time, the dreary winter canvas transforms into a lush, vibrant, and colorful scene. It all seems to happen in the blink of an eye.
I hope to learn a lesson from the quietly emerging spring: to do my work with a gentle and quiet spirit, and trust that the Lord will use it for impact somewhere… continue reading more from this previous blog post here!
Let’s put some lovely words to this lovely time of the year, shall we? I’ve compiled a list of beautiful quotes about spring:
“Is the spring coming?” he said. “What is it like?”…
Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden
“It is the sun shining on the rain and the rain falling on the sunshine…”
“That is one good thing about this world…there are always sure to be more springs.”
L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Avonlea
“It’s spring fever. That is what the name of it is. And when you’ve got it, you want—oh, you don’t quite know what it is you do want, but it just fairly makes your heart ache, you want it so!”
Mark Twain“Spring drew on…and a greenness grew over those brown beds, which, freshening daily, suggested the thought that Hope traversed them at night, and left each morning brighter traces of her steps.”
Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre“In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.”
Margaret Atwood
“Some old-fashioned things like fresh air and sunshine are hard to beat.”
Laura Ingalls Wilder
“The earth laughs in flowers.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Find More Encouragement
- Quiet Spring Beauty
- The Lord Will Guide You Always | Charles Spurgeon
- For the Homemaker | Quotes to Encourage | Part Two
- For the Homemaker | Quotes to Encourage
- Encouraging Quotes for Motherhood
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