Quotes about Fruit

The fruit of the Spirit is love." Why? Because nothing but love can expel and conquer our selfishness.

A machine can do work; only life can bear fruit. A law can compel work; only love can spontaneously bring forth fruit. Work implies effort and labor; the essential idea of fruit is that it is the silent, natural, restful produce of our inner life.

The Spirit of God is love, and "the fruit of the Spirit is love.

The Spirit of love, to come and banish selfishness and envy and pride, and bring the love of God into the hearts of men. "The fruit of the Spirit is love.

Love Conquers Selfishness "The fruit of the Spirit is love." Why? Because nothing but love can expel and conquer our selfishness.

Let a man be what he will, you are to love him. Love is to be the fruit of the Spirit all the day and every day.

Offended people still may experience miracles, words of utterance, strong preaching, and healing in their lives. But these are gifts of the Spirit, not fruits. We will be judged according to fruit, not gifting. A gift is given. Fruit is cultivated.

Wherefore, when we wander and go astray, we are justly shut out from every species of excuse, because all things point to the right path. But while man must bear the guilt of corrupting the seed of divine knowledge so wondrously deposited in his mind, and preventing it from bearing good and genuine fruit, it is still most true that we are not sufficiently instructed by that bare and simple, but magnificent testimony which the creatures bear to the glory of their Creator. For

God uses the opposite situation of each fruit to allow us a choice. You can't claim to be good if you have never been tempted to be bad.

The ones that fell among thorns are those who, when they have heard, go out and are choked with cares, riches, and pleasures of life, and bring no fruit to maturity. (vv. 12—14)

If you so sparingly, look for sparingly results.

A ministry of power must be the fruit of a holy, peaceful, loving intimacy with the Lord.