Sentences with phrase «bear fruit -lsb-»

Of course, we don't know that our words will bear fruit, but we should have a goal.

Life is not simple and our response to the challenges surrounding mental health needs to be seasoned with the same wisdom and honesty shown by Warren: «In God's garden of grace, even broken trees bear fruit.»

To bear fruit is to allow ourselves to be crushed for the sake of the world, and become wine in the chalice so that others may drink of it.

To bear fruit there is one condition: abide in Christ.

«You did not choose Me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit and your fruit should abide.»

I am like a vine putting out graceful shoots, my blossoms bear the fruit of glory and wealth.

It has no worries in a year of drought, and never fails to bear fruit.»

We may ask whether any of them have been able to take up and preserve the» positive seeds of» the «60s so that under more favorable circumstances they may grow and bear fruit once again.

As John insisted, that meant to love «one another»; to abide in Christ as the vine is to bear the fruit of loving the members of the Spirit community John 15:7 - 12).

As the branch can not bear fruit by itself, unless it remains in the vine, so neither can you, unless you remain in me.

Though sin may have been introduced by Adam and Eve in Genesis 3, when did sin actually «bear fruit» and what did this look like?

Hey, «bear fruit», I hate to break it to you, but I have a good friend who's a lesbian.

If they do not bear fruit, they are burned — that means they will be judged.

Jesus tells us there that there are Christians who will not bear fruit.

Even some of his sympathetic critics were disappointed that this approach did not always bear fruit in his dogmatics.

Will our experiment in religion and science bear fruit?

You can identify whether or not someone is an authentic Christian because if they are then God's spirit lives in them and they bear the mind and characteristics of God, in other words, they will bear fruit.

little is to be expected of that day, if it is to be called a day, to which we are not awakened by our Genius... to a higher life than we fell asleep from; and thus the darkness bear its fruit, and prove itself to be good, no less than the light.

Already the axe is laid at the root of the trees, and every tree which does not bear fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire!»

I wrote in my journal: «In God's garden of grace, even broken trees bear fruit.»

He takes Psalm 92:14 as his inspiration: «They will still bear fruit in old age, they will stay fresh and green.»

As the branch can not bear fruit by itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in me.

But I was impressed by the number of people who interpreted Question 9 — «I believe I bear fruit for the Lord, that I live a life worthy of Christ» — as saying something about social involvement.

The questions that people most wanted to talk about were those concerning growth as a Christian, life goals, the mix of personal and corporate spiritual practices, how to understand God's will in today's world, how to make use of the Bible, and what it means to bear fruit for the Lord.

And then in vs 16 says, «You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you to go and bear fruit...» That word «go» is the greek word «hupago» which means «to lead oneself under, to sink out of sight».

I was impressed by the breadth of Paul's concern for their well - being; he wanted God to help them grow in many ways to be able to live their faith, to bear fruit in good deeds, and ultimately to come to salvation.

Even humiliation and defeat can bear fruit in self examination and renewed effort.

Every branch in me that does not bear fruit he takes away, and every branch that does bear fruit he prunes, that it may bear more fruit.

Spiritual reading is like plant food to the seedling of contemplative life, boosting its chances of developing in to a robust plant that will bear fruit.

And there shall come forth a shoot out of the stock of Jesse, and a branch out of his roots shall bear fruit.

I hoped that your heart would bear fruit, that you would worship all your days the God who created the world, that you would lift up your prayer only to him without forgetting alms or charity and that this would be the pure and bloodless sacrifice that you would offer to God.»

In the face of this horrible oppression, Jesus holds out a message of hope to his people Israel: God will liberate Israel from oppression, placing the vineyard into the hands of tenants who know how to care for it lovingly, and who will enable it to fulfill its mission; only non-Jews who are willing to protect Israel and encourage it to bear fruit will be given control over it.

Ynetnews: Top rabbi: Soften attitude towards gays Religious gays» battle for rabbinical and communal recognition continues to bear fruit: Rabbi Dr. Aharon Lichtenstein, a senior Religious Zionism rabbi, has ruled that people with homosexual inclinations should not be condemned more than Shabbat desecrators or frauds.

Trusting in God does bear fruit, because it frees us to act better.

After Eve did bear the fruit of Adam's loins twice, with his sons Cain and Abel, she hath expressed to him no longer was there an interest for her in the intimate relations.

«Works» is a new pattern of behavior — a new set of choices replacing the old — which will bear fruit if done in faith and humility.

Those who fully appropriate the central message of Jesus into their lives, whatever portion of «Christians» this may be, evidence a combination of freedom, moral concern, inner peace and good works of love that often bear fruit in the lives of others.

Yet what was germinative was bound to bear fruit, and it is bearing it today.

The most straightforward way to translate it would be to say that those branches who do bear fruit, Jesus cleans.

The group called on the general assembly to confess «our continued sins of racism and failure to love brothers and sisters from minority cultures» and to recommit itself «to bear fruit in keeping with our repentance.»

A branch can't decide to not bear fruit.

Every branch in Me that does not bear fruit He takes away; and every branch that bears fruit He prunes, that it may bear more fruit.

I remember writing in my journal that in God's garden of grace, even broken trees bear fruit.»

On the contrary, just as the ground liberates the causality of the seed, enabling it to germinate, grow, mature and bear fruit, so God's causality liberates man's causality, makes man to be truly creative and make himself.

Then from the decay the mightiness of the Ruler's providence raises them up, and many grow from the one and bear fruit.

You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit and that your fruit should abide.

If you are not hearing the Word, you will never bear fruit.

An especially noteworthy and brilliant example of how this refusal can bear fruit is found in Nussbaum's reading of Plato's Symposium in her first book, The Fragility of Goodness: Luck and Ethics in Greek Tragedy and Philosophy (1986).

Both insights would bear fruit at the Second Vatican Council.

The evangelist himself speaks of Mary's memory, how she treasured in her heart all that she had heard and seen, so that the word could bear fruit in her life.