Fruit Quotes

Cause and effect, means and ends, seed and fruit cannot be severed; for the effect already blooms in the cause, the end preexists in the means, the fruit in the seed

The fruit of meditation is not the absence of thoughts, but the fact that thoughts cease to harm us. Once enemies, they become friends.

For if we are bidden to honor carnal fathers and mothers, how much more the spiritual? ... If this virtue of charity has been overlooked, a man will lose any fruit of salvation in any good he may do.

Love is the root; obedience is the fruit.

Grief, like a tree, has tears for its fruit.

Virtuous persons and fruit-laden trees bow, but fools and dry sticks break because they do not bend.

I often go on a liquid fast a couple of days a week. I never take just water. Instead, I'll have maybe six glasses of vegetable and fruit juices a day.

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.

Autumn is the mellower season, and what we lose in flowers we more than gain in fruits.

Obedience is the fruit of faith.

Love is often the fruit of marriage.

What gardening teaches us is that if you plant things, they'll come up. But you have to be willing to wait for them to bear fruit because things are seasonal.

A man's worth has its season, like fruit.

There are periods that we forget that in the pursuit of fruit, that if we just abide in Him, then fruitfulness is a guarantee.

Most fruits, if left alone on a tree, eventually do ripen, especially if they're not being yelled at.

I designed collections around whatever struck my fancy ... fruits, vegetables, politics, or peacocks!

A ruined man fell from her hands like a ripe fruit, to lie rotting on the ground.

Like a beautiful flower that is colorful but has no fragrance, even well spoken words bear no fruit in one who does not put them into practice.

Shake the tree of life itself and bring down fruits unheard of.

The fruit that you eat will never taste as beautiful as the fruit that I ate during the turmoil of war. You will never cherish it as much as I do.

Repentance is the sweet fruit that comes from faith in the Savior and involves turning toward God and away from sin.

He who lives upon the fruit of his own labor, escapes the contempt of haughty benefactors.

Depart from the highway, and transplant thyself in some enclosed ground; for it is hard for a tree that stands by the wayside to keep her fruit till it be ripe.

Where there is no fruit, there may be no root.

Several ripe persimmons Left on the branches; Gray clouds come and go.

My resolve to die was not the whim of an hour. It was the ripe, sound fruit that had slowly grown to full size, lightly rocked by the winds of fate whose next breath would bring it to the ground.

The wrinklier the raisin, the sweeter the fruit.

As the soil, however rich it may be, cannot be productive without cultivation, so the mind without culture can never produce good fruit

Beauty is a fruit which we look at without trying to seize it.

When I was young they used to say people only threw stones at the tree that was loaded with fruit.

As they say in Discworld, we are trying to unravel the Mighty Infinite using a language which was designed to tell one another where the fresh fruit was.

All fruit grows through abiding, not striving.

Vocations are born in prayer and from prayer; and only in prayer can they persevere and bear fruit.

Living life with a clear conscience is the fruit of a repentant heart and new life through Jesus Christ.

The Gospel purifies and renews, it bears fruit, wherever the community of believers hears it and receives God’s grace in truth and charity. This is my confidence, this is my joy.

Nature makes trees put down deep roots before having them bear fruit, and even this is done gradually.

I have a lot of fruit trees and my own little vegetable garden and chickens. And every time I eat, I bless my food; I say I'm grateful for for it and let it nourish every part of my body.

You can't plant a seed and pick the fruit the next morning.

The thing I don't understand is why so often one hears discussion of the fruits of human labor as if it's all the creation of some alien race.

Color is the fruit of life.

When the fruit of your service is out of all proportion to the gifts you possess, THAT is Blessing!

I imagined that if the surface of the package imitated the colour and texture of the fruit skin, then the object would reproduce the feeling of the real skin.

When I shop for fruit & melons I like to hold a grape next to a cantaloupe & think of Earth next to Jupiter. Then I eat Earth.

I still need practice in enjoying the fruits of success.

If it could only be like this always - always summer, always alone, the fruit always ripe and Aloysius in a good temper.

On the whole, my impression is that mercy bears richer fruits than any other attribute.

The irrepressible conflict propounded by abolitionism has produced now its legitimate fruits - disunion.

Jesus Christ said 'by their fruits ye shall know them,' not by their disclaimers.

Remorse is virtue's root; its fair increase is fruits of innocence and blessedness.

Too late for fruit, too soon for flowers.