Written by Pastor Jack Wellman20 Awesome Quotes about the Fruits of the Spirit
Christians usually memorize the verse about fruits of the spirit in Sunday School, but what does it really mean? Can we actually display these fruits in our lives on a daily basis? I believe that these quotes and verses can help us to more deeply understand what the fruits of the spirit truly are and how we can manifest them to the world around us.
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The fruit of the Spirit is not push, drive, climb, grasp and trample. Life is more than a climb to the top of the heap.
- Richard J. Foster
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Faith, and hope, and patience and all the strong, beautiful, vital forces of piety are withered and dead in a prayerless life. The life of the individual believer, his personal salvation, and personal Christian graces have their being, bloom, and fruitage in prayer.
- E.M. Bounds
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Love is the overflow of joy in God! It is not duty for duty's sake, or right for right's sake. It is not a resolute abandoning of one's own good with a view solely to the good of the other person. It is first a deeply satisfying experience of the fullness of God's grace, and then a doubly satisfying experience of sharing that grace with another person.
- John Piper
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But his delight is in the law of the Lord, and on his law he meditates day and night. He is like a tree planted by streams of water that yields its fruit in its season, and its leaf does not wither. In all that he does, he prospers.
- Psalm 1:2-3
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The Christian needs to walk in peace, so no matter what happens they will be able to bear witness to a watching world.
- Henry Blackaby
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Love seeks one thing only: the good of the one loved. It leaves all the other secondary effects to take care of themselves. Love, therefore, is its own reward.
- Thomas Merton
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Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all.
- George Washington
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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?
- Charles Spurgeon
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Love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. To these I commit my day.
- Max Lucado
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No one can get Joy by merely asking for it. It is one of the ripest fruits of the Christian life, and, like all fruits, must be grown.
- Henry Drummond
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Then he said to them, “Go your way. Eat the fat and drink sweet wine and send portions to anyone who has nothing ready, for this day is holy to our Lord. And do not be grieved, for the joy of the LORD is your strength.”
- Nehemiah 8:10
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A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another. By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.
- John 13:34-35
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Do not be lazy. Run each day's race with all your might, so that at the end you will receive the victory wreath from God. Keep on running even when you have had a fall. The victory wreath is won by him who does not stay down, but always gets up again, grasps the banner of faith and keeps on running in the assurance that Jesus is Victor.
- Basilea Schlink
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But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
- Galatians 5:22
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Have you ever noticed how much of Christ's life was spent in doing kind things?
- Henry Drummond
I pray that you will show peace, love, joy, kindess, and all of the fruits of the spirit today and every day. It may not always be easy to live life this way, but we can do all things through Christ!
