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Praise is God's sunlight in the heart. It destroys sin germs. It ripens the fruits of the Spirit. It is the oil of gladness that lubricates life's activities.
Smith Wigglesworth
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The fruit of the Spirit is . . . self-control
Watchman Nee
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God prefers fruits of the spirit over religious nuts.
Adrian Rogers
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The Bible says the fruit of the spirit is longsuffering. I'll tell you one thing about fruit: you will never see a fruit factory. Isn't that right? You see a shirt factory, but you see a fruit orchard. You see, there is no fruit without life. You cannot manufacture patience. The fruit of the Spirit is patience.
Adrian Rogers
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There is a fruit of the Spirit that must accompany the gift of healing and that is longsuffering.
Smith Wigglesworth
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Fruit is always the miraculous, the created; it is never the result of willing, but always a growth. The fruit of the Spirit is a gift of God, and only He can produce it. They who bear it know as little about it as the tree knows of its fruit. They know only the power of Him on whom their life depends
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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Peace is a fruit of the Spirit, not the byproduct of accumulated wealth.
Andy Stanley
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Love and Self-control are the bookends of the fruit of the Spirit. Remove one of them and the rest fall over
Joyce Meyer
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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God's children have a limitless supply of the fruit of the Spirit.
Henry R Brandt
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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
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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
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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