Vigen Guroian quotes

“I think that gardening is nearer to godliness than theology.”
-- Vigen Guroian

Source : Vigen Guroian (2001). “Inheriting Paradise: Meditations on Gardening”, p.106, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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“I think gardening is nearer to godliness than theology. True gardeners are both iconographers and theologians insofar as these activities are the fruit of prayer 'without ceasing.' Likewise, true gardeners never cease to garden, not even in their sleep, because gardening is not just something they do. It is how they live.”
-- Vigen Guroian

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“I think if we all gardened more, they and all of the other birds that fly in the air above and light in my garden below would be better off. I know that God values them no less than I do. So when I plant in spring I also hope to taste of God in fruit of summer sun and sight of feathered friends.”
-- Vigen Guroian

Source : Vigen Guroian (2001). “Inheriting Paradise: Meditations on Gardening”, p.106, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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“Let every Christian be a gardener so that he and she and the whole of creation, which groans in expectation of the Spirit's final harvest, may inherit Paradise. If we Christian's truly treasure the hope that one day we, like Adam and the penitent thief, will walk alongside the One who caused even the dead wood of the Cross to blossom with flowers, then we must also imitate the Master's art and make the desolate earth grow green.”
-- Vigen Guroian

Source : Vigen Guroian (2001). “Inheriting Paradise: Meditations on Gardening”, p.17, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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“Colleges [have] forfeited the responsibilities of in loco parentis and have gone into the pimping and brothel business.”
-- Vigen Guroian

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“Gardening symbolizes our race's primordial acceptance of a responsibility and role in rectifying the harm done to the creation through sin.”
-- Vigen Guroian

Source : Vigen Guroian (2001). “Inheriting Paradise: Meditations on Gardening”, p.14, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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“Before one can walk as Christ walked, and talk as He talked, he must first begin to think as Christ thought.”

“Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.”

“Some of my academic friends think Ive fallen from a very special grace.”

“Because of a friend, life is a little stronger, fuller, more gracious thing for the friend's existence, whether he be near or far. If the friend is close at hand, that is best; but if he is far away he still is there to think of, to wonder about, to hear from, to write to, to share life and experience with, to serve, to honor, to admire, to love.”

“The Old Testament is responsible for more atheism, agnosticism, disbelief - call it what you will - than any book ever written; it has emptied more churches than all the counterattractions of cinema, motor bicycle and golf course.”

“Let us be done with the notion that religion is confined to petty pieties and small constraints. All too often people who have possessed these pieties have wrought great evil.”

“It is hard for many people today to make the distinction between religion and religiosity, the latter a dangerous parody of the former.”

“Lukewarmness I account a sin, as great in love as in religion.”

“The national Government sees in both Christian denominations the most important factor for the maintenance of our society.”

“Ideas come at any moment -- except when you demand them. Most ideas come while I'm physically active, at the gym, with friends, gardening, so I always carry pen and paper. My first draft is always written in longhand. But once the first dozen chapters, more like short stories, are written, then momentum builds until I can't leave the project until it's done.”