Fruit Quotes
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It is the property of a great and good mind to covet, not the fruit of good deeds, but good deeds themselves, and to seek for a good man even after having met with bad men.
Seneca the Younger
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To assault the total culture totally is to be free to use all the fruits of mankind's wisdom and experience without the rotten structure in which these glories are encased and encrusted.
Judith Malina
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Vengeance is a delicious fruit, which must be allowed to ripen in order that it may be fully enjoyed.
Emile Gaboriau
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We're children of God through our blood kinship with Christ. We're also sons and daughters of Adam and Eve, with a hereditary craving for forbidden fruit salad.
Barbara Brown Taylor
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Love is a verb. Love is something you do: the sacrifices you make, the giving of self. If you want to study love, study those who sacrifice for others. Love - the feeling - is a fruit of love the verb.
Stephen Covey
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The whole iconography of ancient science is simply the fruit of wishful thinking.
George Sarton
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God prefers fruits of the spirit over religious nuts.
Adrian Rogers
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For prayers to be efficacious, they must be in harmony with the plan of heaven. The prayer of faith bears fruit when such harmony exists, and this harmony exists when prayers are inspired by the Holy Spirit.
Keith B. McMullin
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She looked like autumn, when leaves turned and fruit ripened.
Sarah Addison Allen
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My fruit grows on other people’s trees.
Bob Buford
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The month of May was come, when every lusty heart beginneth to blossom, and to bring forth fruit.
Thomas Malory
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Religion is the fruit of the Spirit, a Christian character, a true life.
Henry Ward Beecher
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Life's very like a husband you know, my dear; it makes you bring forth fruit.
Elizabeth Goudge
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A fruit is not afraid of its own weight. It grows into its skin fully. It is whole, each part of its body equally alive.
Gayle Brandeis
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I pop a beautiful sentence into my mouth and suck it like a fruit drop.
Bohumil Hrabal
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The fruit of the Spirit wasn't intended to be a list of goals for us to produce - it is the Holy Spirit through us who produces fruit.
Dan Kimball
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Fruit forced is never half so sweet / As that comes quite in season.
Caroline Anne Southey
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Happiness can be defined, in part at least, as the fruit of the desire and ability to sacrifice what we want now for what we want eventually.
Stephen Covey
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Whenever we feel that we are definitely right, so much so that we refuse to open up to anything or anybody else, right there we are wrong. It becomes wrong view. When suffering arises, where does it arise from? The cause is wrong view, the fruit of that being suffering. If it was right view it wouldn't cause suffering.
Ajahn Chah
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Nobody knows when you make an effort or when you plant a seed if it will bear fruit or not.
Jimmy Carter
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Get passed the low hanging fruit. Anybody can grab that! Elevate your thought process and your mind and be creative.
Eric Thomas
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One of the fruits of longevity is establishing a reputation you may not deserve.
Carolyn Hart
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The fruit of the Spirit is not what we can make ourselves do for a moment, But what God makes us to be for a lifetime.
Wayne Jacobsen
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As I "won," I didn't feel the fruits of that. I felt the fruits when I served others, when I gave myself away. . . . I've always seen my life as an experiment. I just want to go to what works. As I felt the charity aspect in my life, the giving aspect, I felt a power and I've walked more into that.
Tom Shadyac