fruitfulness

• “Note, Christ knows beforehand who will bring forth gospel fruits in the use of gospel means; because our fruitfulness is all the work of his own hands, and known unto God are all his works.”

  Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John)

• “Further fruitfulness is the blessed reward of forward fruitfulness.”

  Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John)

• “And the reason of this extraordinary fruitfulness is because their waters issued out of the sanctuary; it is not to be ascribed to any thing in themselves, but to the continual supplies of divine grace, with which they are watered every moment (Isa.xxvii. 3); for, whoever planted them, it was that which gave the increase.”

  Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)

• “The purging of fruitful branches, in order to their greater fruitfulness, is the care and work of the great husbandman, for his own glory.”

  Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John)

• “The land of Canaan, which was once the glory of all lands for fruitfulness, is said to be, at this day, a fruitless, useless, worthless spot of ground, as was foretold, Deut. xxix.”

  Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon)

• “Professor, solemnly examine yourself; 'in proportion to your fruitfulness will be your blessedness.”

  Works of John Bunyan — Volume 03

• “Here it is crucial for him to find “the right definitions”; and this involves not just basic adequacy, but also desiderata such as fruitfulness, generality, simplicity, and “purity”, i.e., the elimination of aspects “foreign” to the case at hand.”

  Dedekind's Contributions to the Foundations of Mathematics

• “There is in hospitals an opportunity of extraordinary importance, a field of great fruitfulness which is largely neglected.”

  Missionary Survey As An Aid To Intelligent Co-Operation In Foreign Missions

• “But it is more likely that it has direct reference to the wind which accompanies the rain storm rather than to "fruitfulness," as Seler supposes.”

  Day Symbols of the Maya Year Sixteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1894-1895, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1897, pages 199-266.

• “Thus you may perceive the infinite fruitfulness of the Sacrament of Holy Orders.”

  Pope Benedict XVI

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