Erudition can produce foliage without bearing fruit.
Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.
A life without love is like a tree without fruit.
Bushido is in being crazy to die. Fifty or more could not kill one such a man.
The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.
Education is only a ladder to gather fruit from the tree of knowledge, not the fruit itself
Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand.
Unless a tree has borne blossoms in spring, you will vainly look for fruit on it in autumn.
Every time a resolve or a fine glow of feeling evaporates without bearing practical fruit is worse than a chance lost; it works so as positively to hinder future resolutions and emotions from taking the normal path of discharge.
Intelligence is the flower of discrimination. There are many examples of the flower blooming but not bearing fruit. Bushido is in being crazy to die. Fifty or more could not kill one such a man.
In his commerce with men I mean him to include- and that principally- those who live only in the memory of books. By means of history he will frequent those great souls of former years. If you want it to be so, history can be a waste of time; it can also be, if you want it to be so, a study bearing fruit beyond price.
If you want it to be so, history can be a waste of time; it can also be, if you want it to be so, a study bearing fruit beyond price.
It is of no use for any of you to try to be soul-winners if you are not bearing fruit in your own lives. How can you serve the Lord with your lips if you do not serve Him with your lives.? How can you preach His gospel with your tongues, when with hands, feet, and heart you are preaching the devil’s gospel, and setting up an antichrist by your practical unholiness?
The soul, too has her virginity and must bleed a little before bearing fruit.
The processes of growth are gradual, bearing fruit in a decade, not a day.
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