For truly I tell you, if you have faith the size of a mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, 'Move from here to there,' and ...it will move; and nothing will be impossible for you.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
He put before them another parable: "The kingdom of heaven is like a mustard seed that someone took and sowed in his field; it is ...the smallest of all the seeds, but when it has grown it is the greatest of shrubs and becomes a tree, so that the birds of the air come and make nests in its branches."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
They roused him with muffins--they roused him with ice-- They roused him with mustard and cress--... They roused him with jam and judicious advice-- They set him conundrums to guess.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Under the spell of moonlight, music, flowers or the cut and smell of good tweeds, I sometimes feel the divine urge for an hour, a ...day or maybe a week. Then it is gone an my interest returns to corn pone and mustard greens, or rubbing a paragraph with a soft cloth.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In order for the wheel to turn, for life to be lived, impurities are needed, and the impurities of impurities in the soil, too, as... is known, if it is to be fertile. Dissension, diversity, the grain of salt and mustard are needed: Fascism does not want them, forbids them, and that's why you're not a Fascist; it wants everybody to be the same, and you are not. But immaculate virtue does not exist either, or if it exists it is detestable.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Certain it is that scandal is good brisk talk, whereas praise of one's neighbour is by no means lively hearing. An acquaintance gr...illed, scored, devilled, and served with mustard and cayenne pepper excites the appetite; whereas a slice of cold friend with currant jelly is but a sickly, unrelishing meat.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There are, indeed, severe things in it which no man should read aloud more than once. "Seek first the kingdom of heaven." "Lay not... up for yourselves treasures on earth." "If thou wilt be perfect, go and sell what thou hast, and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven." "For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? Or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?" Think of this, Yankees! "Verily, I say unto you, if ye have faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye shall say unto this mountain, Remove hence to yonder place, and it shall remove; and nothing shall be impossible to you." Think of repeating these things to a New England audience! thirdly, fourthly, fifteenthly, till there are three barrels of sermons! who, without cant, can read them aloud? Who, without cant, can hear them, and not go out of the meeting-house? They never were read, they never were heard. Let but one of these sentences be rightly read, from any pulpit in the land, and there would not be left one stone of that meeting-house upon another.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Johnson's conversation was by much too strong for a person accustomed to obsequiousness and flattery; it was mustard in a young ch...ild's mouth.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »