Matthew 6:28
Douay-Rheims
And for raiment why are you solicitous? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they labour not, neither do they spin.
John Chrysostom (attributed)
If God then thus provides for the flowers of the earth which only spring up, that they may be seen and die, shall He overlook men whom He has created not to be seen for a time, but that they should be for ever?
Source details
as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Matthew 6:28-30
Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.