“If you have any helpful suggestions I'd be pleased to hear them. If all you can do is make snide insinuations then it would probably benefit all concerned if you bestowed the fruits of your prodigious wit on someone with the spare time to give them the consideration they doubtless deserve.” IfsGivingCan DoBenefitsDeserveConcernedFruitWitConsiderationHelpfulSparesSuggestionsSpare TimeProdigious Author:Iain Banks
“Emancipation of human labor from economic servitude and exploitation, i.e., from organizations of production in which the conditions of work are determined by a master class who own the means of production, and in which the fruits of work are alienated from workers to the benefit of masters.” HumansMeanWisdomPoliticsClassEconomyEconomicConditionsMastersBenefitsLaborOrganizationFruitWorkersProductionsDeterminedLiberalismExploitationEmancipationServitude Author:Mortimer Adler
“What earnest worker, with hand and brain for the benefit of his fellowmen, could desire a more pleasing recognition of his usefulness than the monument of a tree, ever growing, ever blooming, and ever bearing wholesome fruit?” HandsDesireBrainGrowingTreeBenefitsFruitWorkersRecognitionEarnestMonumentUsefulnessBlooming Author:Washington Irving
“O youth.......be assured that knowledge alone does not strengthen the hand......Though a man read a hundred thousand scientific questions and understood them or learned them, but did not work with them---They do not benefit him except by working.....Knowledge is the tree, and working is its fruit; and though you studied a hundred years and assembled a thousand books, you would not be prepared for the mercy of Allah the Exalted except by working.” MenYearsDoeBookHandsTreeYouthThousandBenefitsUnderstoodHundredMercyPreparedFruitBe PreparedAssuredExalted Author:Al-Ghazali
“Faith and repentance are as much benefits of the covenant of grace as justification . . . . faith and repentance themselves . . . . are components of the gospel, not the workings or fruits of the law.” LawGraceBenefitsFruitRepentanceJustificationComponentsCovenant Book:Reformed Dogmatics : Volume 4: Holy Spirit, Church, and New Creation Source: Reformed Dogmatics : Volume 4: Holy Spirit, Church, and New Creation