The man has lived to serve me, to spread black looks under color of religion, or to sow tares in the wheat-field, as you do, in a course of weak compliance with desire.

It seems as if my spiritual eye saw in those parts what we may call a seed (the seed of the kingdom sown in the heart) that wants to take root downwards and spring upwards, but which is almost choked with the tares of superstition.

Its efficacy is in helping to keep out those negative thoughts of doubt which would plant tares among our wheat, and therefore, instead of anything of effort, such contemplation should be accompanied by a feeling of pleasure and restfulness in foreseeing the certain accomplishment of our desires.

It was he who had left the door in the wall open, that he might throw the weeds and tares on the rubbish heap outside.

If we fail to do that, then all the inept states and all the subject states about the world will become one great field for the sowing of tares by the enemy.

Henry Lee warned Washington of the undercurrent of criticism, and when Jefferson heard indirectly of this he wrote his former chief that "I learn that [Lee] has thought it worth his while to try to sow tares between you and me, by representing me as still engaged in the bustle of politics & in turbulence & intrigue against the government.

Full well I know I have more tares than wheat, Brambles and flowers, dry stalks, and withered leaves

We grow in it maize for the poultry, tares for the pigeons, lucerne for the cows, and talked of oats for the pony.