well, i know its used to describe someone...but is it a compliment...and what does it mean???
2007-12-29 00:34:09 · 3 answers · asked by stormy.breezy 2 in Education & Reference ➔ Quotations
ohhhhhh....fine, its from the bible...but what does it mean??????? in what context is it used?
2007-12-29 01:19:11 · update #1
Words of Jesus in the Sermon on the Mount, encouraging his followers not to worry about their worldly needs: “Why take ye thought for raiment [clothing]? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin. And yet I say unto you that even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.”
"Lilies of the Field," a 1962 book by William Edmund Barrett, is the story of a Black-American itinerant worker who encounters a group of East German nuns who feel he has been sent to them by God to help them build a new chapel. The nuns are the symbolic lilies of the field.
2007-12-29 01:27:04 · answer #1 · answered by Beach Saint 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Its from the bible: Look at the lilies of the field and the birds in the sky, they dont seed and they dont harvest and they live
2007-12-29 09:19:50 · answer #2 · answered by Lee 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it's from the bible
2007-12-29 08:38:34 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋