Quotes about fruit
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Stephen Antony Pillai photo

“If God so wills, I will bear fruit. I am a grown up plant of forty years in priesthood service. This is God's plan and His will. I never thought that, at the age of sixty-six, I would be made a bishop. God has fulfilled His own dream in this way. That's how I take it.”

Stephen Antony Pillai (1952) Roman Catholic bishop

My Priority Is Spiritual Awakening (28 February 2019) Light of truth http://lightoftruth.in/coverstory/priority-spiritual-awakening/

God, Age, Dreams, Way
Bruno Forte photo

“There is still a long way but the model of conjugation between synodality and primacy certainly opens a fruitful way.”

Bruno Forte (1949) Catholic bishop

INTERVIEW: “Reconciliation” Between Catholics, Orthodox “Now Closer,” Says Archbishop Forte (29 September 2016) Zenit https://zenit.org/2016/09/29/interview-reconciliation-between-catholics-and-orthodox-is-now-closer-says-monsignor-forte/

Way
Zafar Mirzo photo

“The formation of one genius is an effort of thousands of people, precisely the whole of society. Consequently, the fruits of his ingeniousness belong to everyone.”

Zafar Mirzo (1972)

People, Effort
Alexis Karpouzos photo

“I know that our efforts all come to nothing. Analyze life, tear its trappings off, lay it bare with thought, with logic, with philosophy, and its emptiness is revealed as a bottomless pit; its nothingness frankly confesses to nothingness, and Despair comes to perch in the soulI know the end of us all is nothing, I know that at the end of Time, the reward of our toil will be nothing — and again nothing. I know that all our handiwork and all our ideas will be destroyed. I know that not even ash will be left from the fires that consume us. I know that our ideals, even those we achieve, will vanish in the eternal darkness of oblivion and final non-being. There is no hope, none, in my heart. I know, No promise, none, can I make to myself and to others. No recompense can I expect for my labors. No fruit will be born of my thoughts. I know the time — eternal seducer of all men, eternal cause of all effects — offers me nothing but the blank prospect of annihilation. So, my dignity is broken and weak, in recognition of my impending defeat.

The man who is alone, who stands on his own feet, who is stripped bare, who asks for nothing and wants nothing, who has reached the apex of disinterested­ness not through blind renunciation but through ex­cess of clear vision, turns to the world which stretches out before him as a burned prairie, as a devastated city — a world in which no churches, asylums, refuges, ideals, are left — and says: «Though you promise me nothing I am still with you, I am still an atom of your energies, my work is part of your work; I am your companion and your mirror as you march on your merciless way. But I owe nothing to any one. I would be responsible to freedom alone.”

Alexis Karpouzos (1967)

Source: https://alexiskarpouzos.medium.com/at-the-end-of-time-alexis-karpouzos-0b5a34cfbbe9

Life, Men, World, Hope

“Those who do not have enough patience will not reap the fruits of wisdom. This is because the tree of virtue takes time to bear fruit.”

Titon Rahmawan

Wisdom, Tree, Time, Patience