{"quotes":[{"text":"The fact that a seed is viable is not a proof that it’s going to bear good fruits. Some good seeds are destroyed by bad soils. So is leadership; everyone was born to lead, but not all become leaders!","author":"Israelmore Ayivor","tags":["a-good-seed","bad-company","bad-soil","bear-fruits","food-for-thought","fruitfulness","fruits","good-seeds","israelmore-ayivor","lead","lead-people","leader","leaders","leadership","leading","myles-munroe","potent","potentials","proof","seed","seeds","soils","succeed","success","successful","viable"],"id":1158,"author_id":"Israelmore+Ayivor"},{"text":"You win when you are able to convert that time into an investment, into seeds or fruits or products of cultivating your own land or products in other people’s lives.","author":"Sunday Adelaja","tags":["calling","conversion","convert","fruitfulness","gift","great","greatness","humanity","impactful-living","investment","life","poverty","produce","product","productivity","purpose","time","time-conversion","time-investment","value","waste","wealth","work","world"],"id":45332,"author_id":"Sunday+Adelaja"},{"text":"There is a great difference between successfulness and fruitfulness. Success comes from strength, control, and respectability. A successful person has the energy to create something, to keep control over its development, and to make it available in large quantities. Success brings many rewards and often fame. Fruits, however, come from weakness and vulnerability. And fruits are unique. A child is the fruit conceived in vulnerability, community is the fruit born through shared brokenness, and intimacy is the fruit that grows through touching one another's wounds. Let's remind one another that what brings us true joy is not successfulness but fruitfulness.","author":"Henri J.M. Nouwen","tags":["community","fruitfulness","success","vulnerability-intimacy"],"id":82522,"author_id":"Henri+J.M.+Nouwen"},{"text":"Light inside of us can overcome, withstand or overshadow any darkness outside of us.","author":"Ikechukwu Joseph","tags":["christian-living","fruitfulness","insight"],"id":115385,"author_id":"Ikechukwu+Joseph"},{"text":"A time of solitude will always produce some fruits.","author":"Sunday Adelaja","tags":["calling","conversion","convert","fruitfulness","fruits","gift","great","greatness","humanity","life","poverty","produce","product","productivity","purpose","solitude","time","time-of-solitide","value","waste","wealth","work","world"],"id":164795,"author_id":"Sunday+Adelaja"},{"text":"True passion motivates the life forces and brings forth all things good.... Desire is the poor cousin to passion, ever hungry and with no real result.","author":"Gabriel Brunsdon","tags":["desire","fruitfulness","hunger","passion","permanence"],"id":183634,"author_id":"Gabriel+Brunsdon"},{"text":"We must stay connected to vine to keep bearing fruits.","author":"Lailah Gifty Akita","tags":["christian","faith","fruitfulness","goodness","hope","inspirational","jesus-christ","wise-words"],"id":247268,"author_id":"Lailah+Gifty+Akita"},{"text":"When you invest your time you will notice that you are being fruitful and that you are multiplying your life.","author":"Sunday Adelaja","tags":["calling","conversion","convert","fruitful-living","fruitfulness","gift","great","greatness","humanity","investment","life","multiplying-your-life","poverty","produce","product","productivity","purpose","reproductive-life","time","time-investment","value","waste","wealth","work","world"],"id":250397,"author_id":"Sunday+Adelaja"},{"text":"Don't wait for people to dress your bed for you, do it yourself and you'll be glad to sleep and feel relaxed.","author":"Michael Bassey Johnson","tags":["achievement","action","advise","awake","awoke","awoken","bed","bed-of-roses","dull","food-for-thought","force","fruit-of-labour","fruitful","fruitfulness","harvest","labour","laziness","lazy","michael-bassey-johnson","procrastination","reaction","reap","reaping","rose","sow","sowing","start-working","think","thinking","work"],"id":255249,"author_id":"Michael+Bassey+Johnson"},{"text":"[The Bible] warns us about “the little foxes, that spoil the vines” [Song of Solomon 2:15 KJV]. This is a picture of the way “little” sinscan destroy our fruitfulness for the Lord.","author":"Billy Graham","tags":["bible","billy-graham","fruitfulness","little-foxes","lord","sins"],"id":270465,"author_id":"Billy+Graham"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":20,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}