Quotes about Fruitfulness

Seeds are proof that God puts within you what is supposed to enrich the world around you.

Trees endure the hot sun and rainstorms by sending their roots down deeper. The adversity they face is eventually the source of great stability. The harshness of the elements surrounding them causes them to seek another source of life. They will one day come to the place that even the greatest of windstorms cannot affect their ability to produce fruit.

Train up a fig tree in the way it should go, and when you are old sit under the shade of it.

Unless the believer offers his soul life to death, he shall cultivate that life, incur the displeasure of God, and miss the fruit of the Holy Spirit.

The familiar words of Jesus are "Without me you can do nothing" (John 15:5). But these must be balanced by the insight that, in general, if we do nothing it will certainly be without him.

Annoying mishaps always seem to cluster around times of spiritual fruitfulness. That's not exactly coincidence.

God has predestined every single one of us for fruitfulness. (See John 15.) We need to be familiar with a place of divine intimacy in which we are so consumed by the Holy Spirit that we will nurture and protect the seed He places in us. We need to fearlessly step out and activate His promises. It is intimacy that gives us the grace and strength we need to push through suffering, pain, and inconvenience.

The fruitfulness of our lives depends in large measure in our ability to doubt our own words and to question the value of our own work. The man who completely trusts his own estimate of himself is doomed to sterility.

If we have been diligent to hide the Word of God in our hearts, and if we continue to labor over that Word, we can be assured that in the time of harvest we will reap a bountiful reward if we faint not. (See Galatians 6:9.)

Whether the man is an atheist or a Christian, I would judge him by his fruits, and I have therefore many agnostic friends.

Untilled ground, however rich, will bring forth thistles and thorns; so also the mind of man.

A Christian should resemble a fruit tree with real fruit, not a Christmas tree with decorations tied on