Quotes about Fruit

The apple in June is a perfect apple for June. It is the best apple that June can produce. But it is very different from the apple in October, which is a perfected apple.

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

It is said that in some countries trees will grow, but will bear no fruit because there is no winter there.

The tree that is beside the running water is fresher and gives more fruit.

Only the believer obeys — obedience follows faith, the way good fruit comes from a good tree. Only the obedient believe.

Each tree Laden with fairest fruit, that hung to th' eye Tempting, stirr'd in me sudden appetite To pluck and eat.

A tree may always be known by its fruit, and a true Christian may always be discovered by their habits, tastes & affections.

Trust is the fruit of a relationship in which you know you are loved.

The fruit of sin is thorns—spiny, prickly, cutting thorns. I emphasize the "point" of the thorns to suggest a point you may have never considered: if the fruit of sin is thorns, isn't the thorny crown on Christ's brow a picture of the fruit of our sin that pierced his heart?

You long for the fruit of the Spirit. But how do you bear this fruit? Try harder? No, hang tighter. Our assignment is not fruitfulness but faithfulness.

We Christians tend to miss this. We banter about pledges to "change the world," "make a difference for Christ," "lead people to the Lord." Yet these are by-products of the Christ-focused life. Our goal is not to bear fruit. Our goal is to stay attached.

The Holy Spirit is the presence of God in our lives, carrying on the work of Jesus. The Holy Spirit helps us in three directions—inwardly (by granting us the fruits of the Spirit, Gal. 5: 22—24), upwardly (by praying for us, Rom. 8: 26), and outwardly (by pouring God's love into our hearts, Rom. 5: 5).