Best 621 quotes in «fruit quotes» category

To endure the cross is not tragedy; it is the suffering which is the fruit of an exclusive allegiance to Jesus Christ.

Too late for fruit, too soon for flowers.

Trees are not known by their leaves, nor even by their blossoms, but by their fruits.

True faith will always show itself by its fruits . . . I suspect that, with rare exceptions, men die just as they have lived.

True love is the ripe fruit of a lifetime.

Truth is a fruit that can only be picked when it is very ripe.

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

Truth is self-evident, nonviolence is its maturest fruit. It is contained in truth, but is not self-evident.

Truth is rare fruit in garden of murder.

We must teach plainly that the faith which saves the soul is not a dead faith, but a faith which operates with purifying effect upon our entire nature, and produces in us fruits of righteousness to the praise and glory of God.

Unkind language is sure to produce the fruits of unkindness--that is, suffering in the bosom of others.

Wealth is not the fruit of labor but the result of organized protected robbery.

We enjoy the fruit of the first coming but anticipate the glory of the second.

We have all a propensity to grasp at forbidden fruit.

Understanding is the soil in which grow all the fruits of friendship.

Using lots of fresh foods, fruits and vegetables, helps to keep the menu buoyant - I don't know if that's the right word, but it keeps a balance of freshness and health.

We identified various sectors of the economy, which we said were growth sectors. I have mentioned tourism. We said, for instance, agro-business. We grow a lot of food and fruit and things like that. It must be possible to process those.

We sell only fresh fruit and vegetables. I sell no saturated fats or anything like that.

We're taking on Social Security as a property rights issue. We figure that every single American has an absolute property right interest in the fruits of his or her own labor. What I work for should be my property.

We should all be eating fruits and vegetables as if our lives depend on it - because they do.

Whatever seeds each man cultivates will grow to maturity and bear in him their own fruit. If they be vegetative, he will be like a plant.

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.

When once the woman has tempted us, and we have tasted the forbidden fruit, there is no such thing as checking our appetites, whatever the consequences may be.

What sets us against one another is not our aims - they all come to the same thing - but our methods, which are the fruit of our varied reasoning.

When a draco has eaten much fruit, it seeks the juice of the bitter lettuce; it has been seen to do this.

When a society is organized around that which is fitting in each realm, then peace, the fruit of justice, can flourish.

When I planted my pain in the field of patience it bore fruit of happiness.

What reason is there that he which laboreth much, and, sparing the fruits of his labor, consumeth little, should be more charged than he that, living idly, getteth little and spendeth all he gets, seeing the one hath no more protection from the commonwealth than the other?

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

When life hands you a lemon, say, 'Oh yeah, I like lemons! What else ya got?

When phenomena are individually analyzed as selfless, and what has been analyzed is meditated upon, that is the cause for attaining the fruit, nirvana. One does not go to peace through any other cause

When the fruit appears the blossom drops off. Love of God is the fruit, and rituals are the blossom.

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

When the population is filled with peace and harmony it ripens like fruit that turns to rot in a jiff if not preserved by change.

When there is no desire for fruit, there is also no temptation for untruth or himsa.

When we don’t put the brakes on our self-absorption, we have nothing stopping us from total self-destruction. We become the fruits of our actions.

Where no visible fruit can be found, there you may be sure is no conversion.

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

When you start a business, go for the lowest hanging fruit.

Where the roots of private virtue are diseased, the fruit of public probity cannot but be corrupt.

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

Where there is a rotten root, there will always be rotten fruit. We must be rooted in Jesus Christ.

Where will you go to seek Brahman? He is immanent in all beings. Here, here is the visible Brahman! Shame on those who, neglecting the visible Brahman, set their minds on other things! Here is the visible Brahman before you as tangible as a fruit in one's hand! Can't you see? Here - here - is Brahman!

While forbidden fruit is said to taste sweeter, it usually spoils faster.

Words are leaves, the substance consists of deeds, which are the true fruits of a good tree.

Who has told you that the fruit belies the flower? For the fruit you have not tasted, and the flower you know but by report.

Why should I stay? Nor seed nor fruit have I, But, sprung at once to beauty's perfect round, Nor loss nor gain nor change in me is found, - A life-complete in death-complete to die.

Why should be fruit be held inferior to the flower?

Without action and fruit, all the theology in the world has little meaning.

Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.