Earnest Quote by James Russell Lowell

Any moment you're willing to give up your fig leaves, which you think are covering you, God will give you His righteousness, which will…

— Johnny Hunt

When you get honest with God, you can exchange the fig leaves you used to cover your sin with the righteousness of Jesus Christ.

— Johnny Hunt

In the Garden of Eden, figuring out what to wear was easy and the fig leaves were environmentally friendly. Today, it's much harder to…

— Tatiana Schlossberg

I ask you, is it the fig tree's fault that it's not the season for figs? What kind of thing is that to do…

— Yann Martel

Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away.

— Charles Caleb Colton

Puritans should wear fig leaves on their eyes.

— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

The truth is that there are no things for which men will make such herculean efforts as the things of which they know they…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

And never since harvests were ripened, / Or laborers born, / Have men gathered figs of the thistle, / Or grapes of the thorn!

— Phoebe Cary

The self-righteous have their fig leaves so tightly bound that they have forgotten the seeping wounds beneath the foliage.

— Mark Lowry

“That men of a certain type should behave as they do is inevitable. To wish it otherwise were to wish the fig-tree would not…

— Marcus Aurelius

“The fig leaf garments of good works will never do! Faith in the blood of Christ is the only righteousness we can claim.”

— Ervin N. Hershberger

Our Lord never condemned the fig tree because it brought forth so much fruit that some fell to the ground and spoiled. He only…

— Edwin Louis Cole