Top 100 Be Fruitful Quotes
#1. Grace will ever speak for itself and be fruitful in well-doing; the sanctified, cross is a fruitful tree.
Samuel Rutherford
#2. At Vatican Council II, one dissenting Roman Catholic theologian declared: "Yes, the Bible says "Be fruitful and multiply," but that was when the population was two per square world.
Israel Shenker
#3. The vice of envy is not only a dangerous, but a mean vice; for it is always a confession of inferiority. It may promote conduct which will be fruitful of wrong to others, and it must cause misery to the man who feels it.
Theodore Roosevelt
#4. Through selfless service, you will always be fruitful and find the fulfillment of your desires
Bhagavad Gita
#5. I find it ironic that people who are against things that cause sexual thoughts are generally fundamentalist Christians who also believe you should be fruitful and multiply.
Bill Hicks
#6. For dialogue to be fruitful, we need to live deeply our own tradition and, at the same time, listen deeply to others. Through the practice of deep looking and deep listening, we become free, able to see the beauty and values in our own and others' tradition.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#7. To be fruitful is to understand the process of growth
Sunday Adelaja
#8. The painter pondered the mournful puzzle of life demanding to be born and, once born, demanding to be fruitful ... to multiply and to live as long as possible - to do all that on a very small planet that would have to last forever.
Kurt Vonnegut
#9. There's no absolutely reliable way to achieve a great citation. However,
hardworking could be fruitful.
Eraldo Banovac
#10. In a sort of ghastly simplicity we remove the organ and demand the function. We make men without chests and expect of them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honour and are shocked to find traitors in our midst. We castrate and bid the geldings be fruitful.
C.S. Lewis
#11. I am of the opinion that all the finer speculations in the realm of science spring from a deep religious feeling, and that without such feeling they would not be fruitful.
Albert Einstein
#12. As full and equal partners Adam and Eve were responsible to tend the garden, to be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth, to subdue the earth, and to rule over the creatures. In other words, together they were given stewardship of the earth because they were equals.
Alan F. Johnson
#13. Olden days cannot be reversed even with the strongest incantation, but fresh days could be invoked to be fruitful in order to stop old fruitless years
Michael Bassey Johnson
#14. The bland assumption that the Church's life will continue to be fruitful so long as we go on praying and cultivating our souls, irrespective of whether we trouble to think and talk Christianly, and therefore theologically, about anything we or others may do or say, may turn out to have dire results.
Harry Blamires
#15. The real question is: how can I live so that my death will be fruitful for others?
Henri Nouwen
#17. The beauty of a living organism-be it good or evil-is that it will follow the law of God with singular vision.
Be fruitful and multiply.
-Bertrand Zobrist
Dan Brown
#18. Mentoring is the cultivation of young adults, the tender caring for and nurturing of them so that they will grow, flourish, and be fruitful.
Jeff Myers
#19. Prayer to be fruitful must come from the heart and must be able to touch the heart of God.
Mother Teresa
#20. When you meditate, don't think about what is happening. Rather, let your awareness be seated in the tender warmth you feel in your body. If you do this, any meditation practice you do will be fruitful.
Gil Fronsdal
#21. In a strange way the spiritual life isn't "useful" or "successful." But it is meant to be fruitful. And fruitfulness comes out of brokenness.
Henri Nouwen
#22. He was the firstborn Bridgerton of a firstborn Bridgerton of a firstborn Bridgerton eight times over. He had a dynastic responsibility to be fruitful and multiply.
Julia Quinn
#24. All acts suppose certain dispositions, and habits of mind and heart, which may be in themselves states of enjoyment or of wretchedness, and which must be fruitful in other consequences besides those particular acts.
John Stuart Mill
#25. Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth.
Anonymous
#26. To be fruitful and productive is to invest in time
Sunday Adelaja
#27. Once it was necessary that the people should multiply and be fruitful if the race was to survive. But now to preserve the race it is necessary that people hold back the power of propagation.
Helen Keller
#28. Some guy hit my fender the other day, and I said unto him, 'Be fruitful, and multiply'. But not in those words.
Woody Allen
#29. Inside marriage, those feelings are pure. God wouldn't order us to be fruitful and multiply if He didn't want us to share intimacy. It fosters a special closeness.
Cathy Marie Hake
#31. The Blessing #1:
May your eyes be profitable,
may your ears be dutiful,
may your tongue be insightful,
may your hands be successful.
May your mind be fruitful,
may your heart be blissful,
may your soul be joyful,
may your life be peaceful.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#32. Life is so great. Life is so fun. Life is so great in my head because I see the love. I see what life could be. As long as I can fulfill it and fulfill my days, it will be fruitful and come about.
Lil B
#33. To be free, to be happy and to be fruitful, can only be attained through sacrifice of many common but overestimated things.
Robert Henri
#34. (When God said, "Be fruitful and multiply" [Genesis 1:28], he wasn't giving math homework.)
Gregory K. Popcak
#35. The command, 'Be fruitful and multiply', was promulgated, according to our authorities, when the population of the world consisted of two persons.
William Ralph Inge
#36. We are called to be fruitful - not successful, not productive, not accomplished. Success comes from strength, stress, and human effort. Fruitfulness comes from vulnerability and the admission of our own weakness.
Henri Nouwen
#37. Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb.
Winston S. Churchill
#38. In our complex world, there cannot be fruitful initiative without government, but unfortunately there can be government without initiative.
Bertrand Russell
#39. In an age of stagnant or declining birthrates, too, these communities' willingness to heed the admonition to be fruitful and multiply has led to speculation about what the demographer Philip Longman calls the survival of the godliest.
Ross Douthat
#40. Prunesquallor, as urbane as ever, had nevertheless something in his fish-like eyes that might almost be described as determination. One glance at his sister was sufficient to make him realize that to attempt to reason with her would be about as fruitful as to try to christianize a vulture.
Mervyn Peake
#41. Dear young people, don't be afraid to marry. A faithful and fruitful marriage will bring you happiness.
Pope Francis
#42. 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.
Ellen G. White
#43. Think truly, and thy thoughts shall the world's famine feed. Speak truly, and each word of thine Shall be a fruitful seed. Live truly, and thy life shall be A great and noble creed.
Horatius Bonar
#44. It may be old hat, but I see no reason to close off what is for me a fruitful subject of inquiry, especially so for one, like me, who is very much interested in creating stories and novels of ideas.
Norman Lock
#45. Peace comes by knowing you're dearly loved by the Lord, Who gives to His children the Holy Spirit to dwell within, to make their witness strong, so that one day they will be as a tree, fruitful and blessed with the wisdom of the forest.
Calvin W. Allison
#46. shows how fruitful analogies can be - not in proving points but in illustrating them, showing spiritual truths by means of material images.
Peter Kreeft
#47. The teacher's role in discussion is to keep it going along fruitful lines - be moderating, guiding, correcting and arguing like one more students.
Mortimer Adler
#48. This much should be clear by now: the term 'renaissance' can only remain fruitful and demanding as long as it refers to a far-reaching idea: that it is the fate of Europeans to develop life and forms of life according to and alongside the Christian definitions of life and forms of life.
Peter Sloterdijk
#49. There is only one way to be revived and healed from our backslidings so that we may become fruitful even in old age. We must take a steady look at the glory of Christ in His special character, in His grace and work, as shown to us in the Scripture.
John Owen
#50. All over the world there must be far-reaching changes in animal behavior and habitat; if only one could have another life in which to chart it all ... Ah, well, that's not a fruitful thing to wish, is it?
Brian Aldiss
#51. Power in Service - The carnal man can never be used in spiritual service. There is so much of the self life about him that God cannot gain control. The Spirit-filled life is necessary for fruitful Christian service.
Oswald J. Smith
#52. Silence! coeval with eternity! thou wert ere Nature's self began to be; thine was the sway ere heaven was formed on earth, ere fruitful thought conceived creation's birth.
Alexander Pope
#53. God made humans for a purpose: not simply for themselves, not simply so that they could be in relationship with him, but so that through them, as his image-bearers, he could bring his wise, glad, fruitful order to the world.
N. T. Wright
#54. A man can never be idle with safety and advantage until he has been so trained by work that he makes his freedom from times and tasks more fruitful than his toil has been.
Hamilton Wright Mabie
#55. Our life is made up of time, and time is a gift from God, so it is important that it be used in good and fruitful actions.
Pope Francis
#56. Happiness calls out responsive gladness in others. There is enough sadness in the world without yours ... never doubt the excellence and permanence of what is yet to be. Join the great company of those who make the barren places of life fruitful with kindness.
Helen Keller
#57. Total intimacy is a myth; that said, a particular kind of loneliness can be both beautiful and fruitful.
Lauren Groff
#58. May you live a rich and fruitful life, and may there be nothing to cast dark shadows on it.
Haruki Murakami
#59. You cannot fathom your mind ... The more you draw from it, the more clear and fruitful it will be.
George Augustus Henry Sala
#60. He thought against Napoleon, in both senses of the word. See how fruitful resentment can be, and how it can make one
Rene Girard
#61. To be in love involves the most irresistible conviction that one will go on being in love until one dies, and that possession of the beloved will confer, not merely frequent ecstasies, but settled, fruitful, deep-rooted, lifelong happiness.
C.S. Lewis
#62. Politics should be the part-time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free people and who would preserve what is good and fruitful in our national heritage.
Lucille Ball
#63. Great men's errors are to be venerated as more fruitful than little men's truths.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#64. What can be richer and more fruitful than a greater fulfillment of the vow of nonviolence in thought, word and deed or the spread of that spirit?
Mahatma Gandhi
#65. Hope
your time from the end of the year to
start of a new year
always sounds 'it will be happier and fruitful' ...
Santosh Kalwar
#66. Let's pray for whole world that there be brotherhood. I hope this journey of the church we begin today is fruitful for evangelization.
Pope Francis
#67. The principal prayer and aim of Christians should be that we "walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing, being fruitful in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God" (Col 1:10).
Arthur W. Pink
#68. Education confers humility, endows one with the authority to command, that will entitle one to affluence. With the help of charity and compassion this affluence can be made fruitful, and by this means, happiness in this world and peace in the next can be won.
Sai Baba
#69. Jealousy is one of the wickedest of all the passions. It is that which has been the most fruitful mother of tragedies, murders, and wars. But reprehensible though it is, jealousy is almost rather to be pitied than blamed
its first victims are those who harbour the feeling.
Arthur Alfred Lynch
#70. A working definition of fathering might be this: fathering is the act of guiding a child to behave in ways that lead to the child's becoming a secure child in full, thus increasing his or her chances of being happy and fruitful as a young adult.
Clyde Edgerton
#71. The idea is to become an old wizard; to live a long and fruitful life and have family and be healthy and enjoy the ride. And speaking of the ride, why not let it rip, at least a little bit? Everyone I know who's really stoked about getting out of bed in the morning does that to some extent.
Laird Hamilton
#72. As long as anger lives, it continues to be the fruitful parent of many unhappy children.
John Climacus
#73. You, O Books, are the golden vessels of the temple, the arms of the clerical militia with which the missiles of the most wicked are destroyed; fruitful olives, vines of Engaddi, fig-trees knowing no sterility; burning lamps to be ever held in the hand.
Richard De Bury
#74. In fact, the more each person can remove his or her ego from the discussion and focus on the subject matter, the more fruitful the conversation will be for all involved.
Matthew Kelly
#75. Life can be pleasant or miserable. To lead a fruitful life, and to make it positive, practice analytical meditation.
Dalai Lama
#76. In the luxuriance of a bowl of grapes set out in ritual display, in a bottle of wine, the soil and sunshine of California reached millions for whom that distant place would henceforth be envisioned as a sun-graced land resplendent with the goodness of the fruitful earth.
Kevin Starr
#77. Reflecting on this, Albert LaChance recognized an opportunity - what if the work he and so many others found so fruitful in the 12-Step recovery programs could be expanded to an ecological, a global, or even a cosmic level?
Albert J. LaChance
#78. Let us not be needlessly bitter: certain failures are sometimes fruitful.
Emile M. Cioran
#79. I think the Eritrean government is aware that any full-scale invasion of Ethiopia along the lines of 1998 could turn out to be suicidal ... And we will not respond to any provocation short of all-out invasion. We are already engaged in a much more fruitful war - against poverty.
Meles Zenawi
#80. To be aware how fruitful the playful mood can be is to be immune to the propaganda of the alienated, which extols resentment as a fuel of achievement.
Eric Hoffer
#81. Waste not your Hour, nor in the vain pursuit
Of This and That endeavor and dispute;
Better be merry with the fruitful Grape
Than sadden after none, or bitter, fruit.
Omar Khayyam
#82. Most great writers suffer and have no idea how good they are. Most bad writers are very confident. Be willing to be a child and be the Lilliputian in the world of Gulliver, the bat girl in Yankee Stadium. That's a more fruitful way to be.
Mary Karr
#83. Christian scholarship will be a poor and paltry thing, worth little attention, until the Christian scholar, under the control of his authentic commitment, devises theories that lead to promising, interesting, fruitful, challenging lines of research.
Craig G. Bartholomew
#84. The only fruitful promise of which the life of any individual or any nation can be possessed, is a promise determined by an ideal.
Herbert Croly
#85. I am incapable of carrying on a discussion to fruitful lengths. I am incapable of the audacity of being logical. I confess to you, my boy, I have not the strength to be right.
Henri Barbusse
#86. It is possible for a mathematician to be "too strong" for a given occasion. He forces through, where another might be driven to a different, and possible more fruitful, approach. (So a rock climber might force a dreadful crack, instead of finding a subtle and delicate route.)
John Edensor Littlewood
#87. The first step is always one of surrender. Not my will but your will be done. I believe the fastest way to get God's attention and become fruitful in the Kingdom is to surrender yourself to him.
Steve Uppal
#88. Marriage can be tough. It really is. But God is calling you to do everything you can. It's just not you and your spouse. There's a third person in your marriage. And God would like to bless and protect that marriage, and give you many fruitful days ahead.
Tim Huelskamp
#89. Emotions are not 'bad.' At the roots of our emotions are primal energies which can be put to fruitful use. Indeed ... the energies of enlightenment arises from the very same natural origins as those which give rise to our everyday passions and emotions.
James H. Austin
#90. A well organized education should not be one which prepares students for a good remuneration alone. It should be one that can help and guide them towards acquiring clear thinking, a fruitful mind, and an elevated spirit.
Haile Selassie
#91. One of the pleasures of art is that it enables the mind to move in unanticipated directions, to make connections that may be in some sense errors but are fruitful nonetheless.
Donald Barthelme
#92. I ought to spend the best hours of the day in communion with God. It is my noblest and most fruitful employment, and is not to be thrust into any corner.
Robert Murray M'Cheyne
#93. Therefore, mobilize vigor to attain what is unattained, to master what is unmastered, to realize what is unrealized. In this way your taking to the spiritual life will not be barren, but fruitful and ever-growing. (Samyutta Nikaya II.29) How
Anonymous
#94. Letting ourselves be forgiven is one of the most difficult healings we will undertake. And one of the most fruitful. (79)
Stephen Levine
#95. Those whose lives are fruitful to themselves, to their friends, or to the world are inspired by hope and sustained by joy: they see in imagination the things that might be and the way in which they are to be brought into existence.
Bertrand Russell
#96. Isn't it time that these most ancient sorrows of ours
grew fruitful? Time that we tenderly loosed ourselves
from the loved one, and, unsteadily, survived:
the way the arrow, suddenly all vector, survives the string
to be more than itself. For abiding is nowhere.
Rainer Maria Rilke
#97. The start shall indeed be challenging and painful but the end has to be exceedingly fulfilling and fruitful.
Arkaprava De
#98. Mindful of not thanking their benefactors, in case, like wights, they took offense, she added, Your kindness is gratefully acknowledged. May your trees be forever fruitful.
Cecilia Dart-Thornton
#99. Chaos, if it does not harden into a pattern of disorder, may be more fruitful than a regularity too easily accepted and a success too easily achieved.
Lewis Mumford
#100. I think a commission set up to examine slavery and the consequences of it, would probably be a very fruitful, important dialogue for the United States to be involved in.
Bob Matsui
