...known, is related to have been spoken by Jesus Christ, as a remedy against distrustful care. " Behold the lilies of the field, they toil not, neither do they spin." This, however, is far inferior to the allusions in Job and in the 19th Psalm ; but it is similar in...

...birds of the air, they sow not, neither do they reap: yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Consider the lilies of the field, they toil not, neither do they spin: and yet I say unto you that Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. Therefore be...

...more inanimate than these transcend all that can be accomplished even by the wisest of men ? " Behold the lilies of the field, they toil not, neither do they spin ; yet Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of them." Perhaps you may say that these things are entirely passive and unintelligent...

...to the distinguished foreigner at her side. But Haycroft at a party was, like so many Englishmen, as the lilies of the field. They toil not, neither do they spin. The man Vida had rescued from Mrs. Graham Townley was, when in the society of women, so accustomed...

...be damned for the glory of God, illustrate the devotion of the true artist to his ideal. " Consider the lilies of the field, . . . they toil not, neither do they spin." The style of the born poet or artist takes as little thought of itself, and is the spontaneous expression...

...do they reap, yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not of much more value than they? Behold the lilies of the field; they toil not, neither do they spin; yet I say unto you that even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. But if God so...

...article: "A man who had an insight into the mysteries of God and openly expressed his scorn of labor: See the lilies of the field; they toil not, neither do they spin." One might ask whether it is befitting to consider work absolutely synonymous with the striving after...

...mourning; the heart of the fool is in the house of mirth,” Ecclesiastes preaches, and “Consider the lilies of the field; they toil not, neither do they spin,” proclaims the Sermon on the Mount, “Yet. . . even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one...

...wealth. But it is the opposite of the way of living that is recommended by the wisest thinkers (consider the lilies of the field. .they toil not, neither do they spin / the old gardener, described by Chuang Tan, who knew of a clever contrivance that would make him more...

...morality, and also a self-indulgent delight in aesthetics as "prior to and beyond utility ('Consider the lilies of the field; they toil not, neither do they spin')." This latter "idea of sheer wastefulness," says McCarthy's persona, "is always shocking to non-Catholics":...