Fruits Of The Spirit Quotes - Page 2

And perhaps, exhibiting the fruit of the Spirit may be our very best defense against a materialist view of mankind here on earth.

Philip Yancey

Views, Defense, Earth

7 Copy quote
Peace should be a hallmark of the godly person, first because it is a Godlike trait: God is called the God of peace several times in the New Testament. He took the initiative to establish peace with rebellious men, and He is the author of both personal peace as well as peace among men. Peace should be part of our character also because God has promised us His peace, because He has commanded us to let peace rule in our lives and relationships, and because peace is a fruit of the Spirit and therefore an evidence of His working in our lives.

Jerry Bridges

Character, Godly, Men

7 Copy quote
Peace is a fruit of the Spirit, not the byproduct of accumulated wealth.

Andy Stanley

Fruit, Spirit, Wealth

Andy Stanley (2011). “Enemies of the Heart: Breaking Free from the Four Emotions That Control You”, p.149, Multnomah

16 Copy quote

Show source
There is a great deal we never think of calling religion that is still fruit unto God, and garnered by Him in the harvest. The fruits of the Spirit are love, joy, peace, long suffering, gentleness, patience, goodness. I affirm that if these fruits are found in any form, whether you show your patience as a woman nursing a fretful child, or as a man attending to the vexing detail of a business, or as a physician following the dark mazes of sickness, or as a mechanic fitting the joints and valves of a locomotive; being honest true besides, you bring forth truth unto God.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Children, Dark, Nursing

6 Copy quote
Patience is a godly attribute that can heal souls, unlock treasures of knowledge and understanding, and transform ordinary men and women into saints and angels. Patience is truly a fruit of the Spirit. Patience means staying with something until the end. It means delaying immediate gratification for future blessings.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

Mean, Angel, Godly

"Continue in Patience". Dieter F. Uchtdorf's address at the General Conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, www.lds.org. April 2010.

15 Copy quote

Show source
Though we as Christians are like Christ, having the first fruits of the spirit, yet we are unlike him, having the remainders of the flesh.

Thomas Watson

Faith, Christian, Flesh

Thomas Watson (1794). “A Body of Practical Divinity Consisting of Above One Hundred and Seventy-six Sermons on the Shorter Catechism Composed by the Reverend Assembly of Divines at Westminster: With a Supplement of Some Sermons on Several Texts of Scripture Together with the Art of Divine Contentment ; to which is Added, Christ's Various Fulness”, p.98

9 Copy quote

Show source
Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.

Aristotle

Best Friend, Friendship, Real Friends

40 Copy quote
True humility is a Christian grace and one of the fruits of the Spirit, originating in a deep consciousness of sin past and present, and leading us to discover our nothingness in the view of God, our insufficiency for any thing that is good, and prompting us, as we feel our infirmities, to strive after higher and yet higher attainments.

James McCosh

Christian, Humility, Past

"Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Dictionary by Gilbert, Josiah Hotchkiss, p. 329, 1895.

9 Copy quote

Show source
Religion is the fruit of the Spirit, a Christian character, a true life.

Henry Ward Beecher

Christian, Character, True Life

Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

9 Copy quote

Show source
My body is the fruit of spirits' play.

Vanna Bonta

Play, Body, Birth

4 Copy quote
To speak of sin without grace is to minimize the resurrection of Jesus Christ, the fruit of the Spirit, and the hope of shalom.

Cornelius Plantinga

Jesus, Grace, Speak

13 Copy quote
Prayer, fasting, vigils, and all other Christian practices, however good they may be in themselves, certainly do not constitute the aim of our Christian life: they are but the indispensable means of attaining that aim. For the true aim of the Christian life is the acquisition of the Holy Spirit of God. As for fasts, vigils, prayer and almsgiving, and other good works done in the name of Christ, they are only the means of acquiring the Holy Spirit of God. Note well that it is only good works done in the name of Christ that bring us the fruits of the Spirit.

Seraphim of Sarov

Christian, Spiritual, Prayer

18 Copy quote
Since we have placed justification in the revelation of Jesus Christ formed and brought forth in the heart, there working his works of righteousness and bringing forth the fruits of the Spirit.

Robert Barclay

Jesus, Heart, Christ

Robert Barclay (1850). “An Apology for the Christian Divinity: As the Sameis Held Forth and Preached by the People Called, in Scorm Quakers, Being a Full Explanation and Vindication of Their Principles and Doctrines”, p.110

8 Copy quote

Show source