“Every age bears its fruits, it's all in knowing how to harvest them.”
Raymond Radiguet (1903–1923) French writer
Tout âge porte ses fruits, il faut savoir les cueillir.
Raymond Radiguet: Le bal du comte d'Orgel. Paris 1924. P. 15.
“Fruit-bearing involves cross-bearing. We know how the Lord Jesus became fruitful – not by bearing His Cross merely, but by dying on it. Do we know much of fellowship with Him in this?”
(J. Hudson Taylor. Fruit Bearing. Philadelphia: Overseas Missionary Fellowship).
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