{"query": "The Fruit Does Not Manufacture Itself", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_549b1b10d669", "title": "The Fruit Does Not Manufacture Itself", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "\"I am the vine, ye are the branches. He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing.\"\n\nNotice what the branch does not do: it does not produc"}, {"id": "card_n_62eb388b9b67", "title": "The Fruit Is Not Your Project", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "\"I am the vine, ye are the branches. He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing.\"\n\nA branch does not manufacture sap. It does not schedul"}, {"id": "card_n_10e0d719020f", "title": "The Branch Does Not Choose the Soil", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "\"I am the vine; you are the branches. Whoever abides in me and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.\"\n\nA branch has no say in where the root goes. It does not"}, {"id": "card_n_4b8250d3571a", "title": "The Vine Does the Holding", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "\"I am the vine, ye are the branches. He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing.\"\n\nA branch does not strain to stay attached. It does not"}, {"id": "card_n_d025499fc999", "title": "The Voice Finds You Where You Are", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "He cried with a loud voice, Lazarus, come forth.\n\nFour days in the tomb. Wrapped in grave-cloth. Beyond argument, beyond remedy. And Jesus does not dig, does not negotiate, does not explain the biolog"}, {"id": "card_n_61213be989a5", "title": "The Branch Does Not Strain", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "\"I am the vine, ye are the branches. He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing.\"\n\nA branch does not produce fruit by effort. It produces"}, {"id": "card_n_828ccd4d8a9a", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_07_xiii: This may ever be my comfort and security: my understanding, that ruleth over ...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "This may ever be my comfort and security: my understanding, that ruleth over all, will not of itself bring trouble and vexation upon itself. This I say; it will not put itself in any fear, it will not"}, {"id": "card_n_f0bafed54207", "title": "The Initiative Was Never Yours", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit.\n\nThere is a quiet relief in these words that we often miss because we read them too quickly. Je"}, {"id": "card_n_a2d4265d581b", "title": "John 15", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "1. “I am the true vine, and my Father is the farmer.\n2. Every branch in me that doesn’t bear fruit, he takes away. Every branch that bears fruit, he prunes, that it may bear more fruit.\n3. You are alr"}, {"id": "card_n_592b275b3694", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_08_021: Whence is this monstrousness?", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Whence is this monstrousness? and to what end? Let Thy mercy gleam that I may ask, if so be the secret penalties of men, and those darkest pangs of the sons of Adam, may perhaps answer me. Whence is t"}, {"id": "card_n_934645b2b6b4", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_10_004: But do Thou, my inmost Physician, make plain unto me what fruit I may reap by...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "But do Thou, my inmost Physician, make plain unto me what fruit I may reap by doing it. For the confessions of my past sins, which Thou hast forgiven and covered, that Thou mightest bless me in Thee, "}, {"id": "card_n_416a0ee2264d", "title": "The Voice Before the Step", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "\"My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me.\"\n\nNotice the sequence Jesus gives: hearing comes first, then knowing, then following. He does not say the sheep study a map and then find "}, {"id": "card_n_79769921b892", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_13_028: And hereby, in Thy Word, not the deepness of the sea, but the earth separated...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "And hereby, in Thy Word, not the deepness of the sea, but the earth separated from the bitterness of the waters, brings forth, not the moving creature that hath life, but the living soul. For now hath"}, {"id": "card_n_25ca17495cba", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_13_040: Was it for his own necessities, because he said, Ye sent unto my necessity?", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Was it for his own necessities, because he said, Ye sent unto my necessity? Rejoiceth he for that? Verily not for that. But how know we this? Because himself says immediately, not because I desire a g"}, {"id": "card_n_2f05f5f9c92e", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_11_033: Does not my soul most truly confess unto Thee, that I do measure times?", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Does not my soul most truly confess unto Thee, that I do measure times? Do I then measure, O my God, and know not what I measure? I measure the motion of a body in time; and the time itself do I not m"}, {"id": "card_n_8c107f598c19", "title": "Easton: Fig", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "First mentioned in Gen. 3:7. The fig-tree is mentioned (Deut. 8:8) as one of the valuable products of Palestine. It was a sign of peace and prosperity (1 Kings 4:25; Micah 4:4; Zech. 3:10). Figs were "}, {"id": "card_n_4e743297cf2f", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_11_017: At no time then hadst Thou not made any thing, because time itself Thou madest.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "At no time then hadst Thou not made any thing, because time itself Thou madest. And no times are coeternal with Thee, because Thou abidest; but if they abode, they should not be times. For what is tim"}, {"id": "card_n_cbcebb1c3afb", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_10_028: But what when the memory itself loses any thing, as falls out when we forget ...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "But what when the memory itself loses any thing, as falls out when we forget and seek that we may recollect? Where in the end do we search, but in the memory itself? and there, if one thing be perchan"}, {"id": "card_n_4ab28a27c153", "title": "The Source Is Already Inside", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Whoever drinks of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life.\n\nJesus does not tell the w"}, {"id": "card_n_eb934acbad16", "title": "Pilgrim's Progress §4: May I not write in such a style as this?", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "May I not write in such a style as this? In such a method, too, and yet not miss My end--thy good? Why may it not be done? Dark clouds bring waters, when the bright bring none. Yea, dark or bright, if"}]}