Quotes About Fruit Of The Spirit

#1. We do not fail to enjoy the fruit of the Spirit because we live in a sea of corruption; we fail to do so because the sea of corruption is in us.

Billy Graham

#2. The fruit of the Spirit is love. Why? Because nothing but love can expel and conquer our selfishness.

Andrew Murray

#3. The fruit of the Spirit wasn't intended to be a list of goals for us to produce - it is the Holy Spirit through us who produces fruit.

Dan Kimball

#4. The fruit of the Spirit is ... self-control

Watchman Nee

#5. But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control.

Anonymous

#6. Joy, I think, is the main fruit of the Spirit missing among Christians, and peace and self-control are the main fruits or qualities that seem to be missing among those who are not Christian.

Lisa Bedrick

#7. 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

#8. The fruit of the Spirit, in contrast, gives a sure sign of transformed character. When our deepest attitudes and dispositions are those of Jesus, it is because we have learned to let the Spirit foster his life in us.

Dallas Willard

#9. Love and Self-control are the bookends of the fruit of the Spirit. Remove one of them and the rest fall over

Joyce Meyer

#10. The fruit of the Spirit is the outward evidence of the inward reality of a heart "abiding" in Christ.

Richard J. Foster

#11. 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

#12. Know that you are part of a joyful Universe. Allow your romantic, ecstatic, blissful emotions to appear more frequently in your daily life. When you feel joy, experience it and express it! As the New Testament says, 'Joy is the fruit of the Spirit.'

Wayne Dyer

#13. It is in my internal and external struggles, when it feels like someone is river-dancing on my last nerve, that the fruit of the Spirit is developed.

Matt Chandler

#14. Humility may well be one of the most difficult of the fruit of the Spirit to be cultivated in us - and to maintain. That's because without humility, it's not likely that you will put your complete trust in God.

Joyce Meyer

#15. Part of the fruit of the Spirit is self-control. Once you get married, however, a good defense is frequency and freedom.

Mark Driscoll

#16. But as nearly every denomination in the United States faces declining membership and waning influence, Christians may need to get used to the idea of measuring significance by something other than money, fame, and power. No one ever said the fruit of the Spirit is relevance or impact or even revival

Rachel Held Evans

#17. The fruit of the Spirit is the natural produce of his gracious inward influence, the spontaneous and inevitable result of his uniting us to Jesus Christ.

Philip Graham Ryken

#18. The fruit of the Spirit is fundamentally relational. Rather than originating with us, it flows to us from our union with Christ, and it flows beyond us to bring us into fellowship with others. The secret of this flow - and our unity with God and others - is humility.

Jerry Bridges

#19. If you are a true Christian ... you will reveal through your daily life the fruit of the Spirit ... and all the other Christian virtues which round out a Christlike personality.

Billy Graham

#20. The fruit of the Spirit is not what we can make ourselves do for a moment, But what God makes us to be for a lifetime.

Wayne Jacobsen

#21. Peace is a fruit of the Spirit, not the byproduct of accumulated wealth.

Andy Stanley

#22. if I do not build Scripture into my mind and heart, the satanic world system's influences have uncontrolled access to my mind and heart. I then will be captivated by every sensation. I become a victim of my environment. Instead of the fruit of the Spirit, the product of the flesh results,

Earl D. Radmacher

#23. Paul famously wrote, "The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, generosity, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control."5 How often do we measure Christian ideas and beliefs by these criteria?

Tony Jones

#24. God's children have a limitless supply of the fruit of the Spirit.

Henry R Brandt

#25. There is a fruit of the Spirit that must accompany the gift of healing and that is longsuffering.

Smith Wigglesworth

#26. Grow deep roots to harvest rich fruit! When your roots run deep, you cannot help but bear the fruit of the Spirit.

Michael Beckwith

#27. 22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law.

Anonymous

#28. Religion is the fruit of the Spirit, a Christian character, a true life.

Henry Ward Beecher

#29. In the book of James the first chapter and the fourth verse it talks about letting patience have her perfect work in us. God knows how to make us wait to develop patience in us. Sometimes, the wait can seem unbearable. But it is in this place that He is maturing this fruit of the Spirit.

L. J. Boulding

#30. Because peace is a fruit of the Spirit, we are dependent upon the Spirit's work in our lives to produce the desire and the means to pursue peace. But we are also responsible to use the means He has given us and to take all practical steps to attain both peace within and peace with others.

Jerry Bridges

#31. The single dynamic that helps people be most aware of God and most experiencing the fruit of the Spirit is gratitude.

John Ortberg

#32. Patience is a fruit of the spirit that grows only under trial. It is useless to pray for patience. Well, actually I encourage you to pray for patience, but I'll tell you what you'll get TRIALS!

Joyce Meyer

#33. It is implanted in the Christian soul, by the side of the running waters, under the sky of the theological virtues, amid the breaths of the seven gifts of the Spirit. It is natural for it to bear Christian fruit.

Jacques Maritain

#34. Pulling weeds and planting seeds. That's the story of life. We are individual lots on which either weeds of selfishness or fruit of the Holy Spirit grows and flourishes.

Dennis Rainey

#35. But when the Holy Spirit controls our lives, he will produce this kind of fruit in us: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. Galatians 5:22

Nicholas Sparks

#36. Some people talk a lot about - even boast of - the Spirit, but their lives do not bear His fruit. Others

Francis Chan

#37. I tend to make my joy a private experience and hoard all the fruit for myself, forgetting that the tree doesn't eat its own fruit but presents it to others.

Hayley DiMarco

#38. The animals possess a soul and men must love and feel solidarity with our smaller brethren. All animals are fruit of the creative action of the Holy Spirit and merit respect and they are as near to God as men are.

Pope John Paul II

#39. Like other spiritual fruit, joy must be cultivated.

George Foster

#40. In a word, what characterizes the spiritist revelation is that while divine in its origin and of the initiative of the Spirits, its elaboration is fruit of man's work.

Allan Kardec

#41. Well, if that's what you call being at peace, for heaven's sake just warn me before you go to war, will you?

Sinclair Lewis

#42. The most important thing we can pray about for others is that they will know God better and that He will help them understand His will, grow in spiritual wisdom, and live lives that honor Him. We can pray that they will become more like Him and bear the fruit of His Spirit.

Stormie O'martian

#43. For prayers to be efficacious, they must be in harmony with the plan of heaven. The prayer of faith bears fruit when such harmony exists, and this harmony exists when prayers are inspired by the Holy Spirit.

Keith B. McMullin

#44. Joy is a fruit of the Holy Spirit, which is most greatly experienced in the heart of those willing to surrender all self-sufficiency: self-promotion, self-reliance, self-protection, and self-absorption: it is a gift given.

Robin M. Bertram

#45. The Holy Spirit gives liberty to the Christian, direction to the worker, discernment to the teacher, power to the Word, and fruit to faithful service. He reveals the things of Christ.

Billy Graham

#46. The spirit of humility is sweeter than honey, and those who nourish themselves with this honey produce sweet fruit.

Anthony Of Padua

#47. A man does not have the character of God if he does not have the fruit of the Holy Spirit.

Sunday Adelaja

#48. We are taught, by past experience, that the more simply we depend upon the grace of God in Christ, and wait upon the Holy Spirit, the more we shall bring forth fruit unto God.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#49. The devotion of such titans of spirit as Lenin to an Ideal must bear fruit. The nobility of his selflessness will be an example through centuries to come, and his Ideal will reach perfection.

Mahatma Gandhi

#50. Christian holiness is not a matter of painstaking conformity to the individual precepts of an external law code; it is rather a question of the Holy Spirit's producing His fruit in the life, reproducing those graces which were seen in perfection in the life of Christ.

F.F. Bruce

#51. A person's fruit is more important than having the gifts of the Holy Spirit.

Sunday Adelaja

#52. God prefers fruits of the spirit over religious nuts.

Adrian Rogers

#53. Offended people still may experience miracles, words of utterance, strong preaching, and healing in their lives. But these are gifts of the Spirit, not fruits. We will be judged according to fruit, not gifting. A gift is given. Fruit is cultivated.

John Bevere