Quotes About Fruitful

Poets are immersed in process, and I mean process not as an amorphous blur but as a discipline. The hard work of writing has taught me that in matters of the heart, such as writing, or faith, there is no right or wrong way to do it, but only the way of your life. Just paying attention will teach you what bears fruit and what doesn't. But it will be necessary to revise--to doodle, scratch out, erase, even make a mess of things--in order to make it come out right.

Did you realize that one of the few commands given to mankind through Adam was "to be fruitful and multiply" (Genesis 1:286)? If man had intense disobedience to God (e.g., Genesis 6:5,7 6:128) 120 years prior to the Flood (Genesis 6:39), are we to believe they were still being obedient to God's command here? Likely not!

Fruitful discourse in science or theology requires us to believe that within the contexts of normal discourse there are some true statements.

A rapprochement between empirical science and religious experience would in my opinion be fruitful for both. Harm can result only if one side or the other remains unconscious of the limitations of its claim to validity.

The errors of great men are venerable because they are more fruitful than the truths of little men.

Writing of, about, and within a world committed to racial dominances without employing the linguistic strategies that supported it seemed to me the most urgent, fruitful, challenging work a writer could take on.

The search for a new personality is futile; what is fruitful is the human interest the old personality can take in new activities.

When men are rightfully occupied, then their amusement grows out of their work as the color petals out of a fruitful garden.

The search for a new personality is futile; what is fruitful is the interest the old personality can take in new activities.

When men are rightly occupied, their amusement grows out of their work, as the color-petals out of a fruitful flower.

It is on the mango tree full of fruits that they throw stones.

Empirical explorations ultimately change our understanding of which questions are important and fruitful and which are not.

We live on the brink of disaster because we do not know how to let life alone. We do not respect the living and fruitful contradictions and paradoxes of which true life is full.

Of all the beautiful truths pertaining to the soul None is more gladdening or fruitful than to know You can regenerate and make yourself what you will.

Whatsoever is done out of pure love, be it ever so little or contemptible in the sight of men, is wholly fruitful; for God measures more with how much love one worketh, than the amount he doeth.

God never uses anyone to a great degree until He breaks the person completely. Joseph experienced more sorrow than the other sons of Jacob, and it led him into a ministry of food for all the nations. For this reason, the Holy Spirit said of him, "Joseph is a fruitful vine . . . near a spring, whose branches climb over a wall" (Gen. 49:22). It takes sorrow to expand and deepen the soul. from The Heavenly Life

Give me juicy autumnal fruit, ripe and red from the orchard...

Labour is the human element which makes the fruitful seasons of the earth useful to men.

The life of man is made up of action and endurance; the life is fruitful in the ratio in which it is laid out in noble action or in patient perseverance.

Green leafy happiness and cherry-red life, bursting with seeds.

Successful low-hanging fruit results will be clear, compelling, and, potentially, paradigm shifting.

Without charity external work is of no value, but anything done in charity, be it ever so small and trivial, is entirely fruitful inasmuch as God weighs the love with which a man acts rather than the deed itself.

Likewise, when you make time alone with Christ the priority, it affects and influences every single facet of your life—He gives you His energy, wisdom, and strength to fulfill His purposes and make you fruitful for His kingdom.

A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value.