Fruit Quotes - Page 11

Whenever we accept an idea as authority instead of as instrument, an idol is set up. We worship the plough, and not the fruit.

Truth is a fruit which should not be plucked until it is ripe.

Though we as Christians are like Christ, having the first fruits of the spirit, yet we are unlike him, having the remainders of the flesh.

If there is no fruit in sanctification, there is no root in regeneration.

You can't have the fruits without the roots.

From the fruit of his lips a man enjoys good things.

Flattery is like friendship in show, but not in fruit.

My mom always puts a grapefruit in my stocking. I like grapefruit, but why put it in a stocking like it's a gift? It's almost as bad as coal.

Sure, there was no guarantee any of these things would actually happen as he envisioned. But maybe that wasn‟t the point.It was the planning that counted, whether it ever came to fruition or not.

She looked like autumn, when leaves turned and fruit ripened.

Are you entitled to the fruits of your own labor or does government have some presumptive right to spend and spend and spend?

Gifts are given, but fruit must be grown

Christians must share their faith in obedience to the Great Commission, because we are only seeing the fruit of sin this side of death.

When we rejoice in our fullness, then we can part with our fruits with joy.

It's a shame that jazz is now being turned into dried fruit. It's becoming quantized, diced and defined. It's becoming an idiom. To me if it's anything, jazz is a verb ? it's more like a process than it is a thing.

Whatever our dreams, ideas, or projects, we plant a seed, nurture it -- and then reap the fruits of our labors.

You do not live in a vacuum nor can you harvest the better fruits of life without help and ENCOURAGEMENT from others.

Stumbling is the fruit of haste.

I have known the fruits of strikes. The bitter and the sweet. Hunger and music.

Our opinions do not really blossom into fruition until we have expressed them to someone else.

The diligent farmer plants trees, of which he himself will never see the fruit.

Time is the best appraiser of scientific work, and I am aware that an industrial discovery rarely produces all its fruit in the hands of its first inventor.

No fruit on earth can rival the cemetery's crop

Food for her is not food, it is terror, dignity, gratitude, vengeance, joyfulness, humiliation, religion, history, and, of course, love. As if the fruit she always offered us were picked from the destroyed brances of out family tree.

Over time, grit is what separates fruitful lives from aimlessness.