What does a strawberry blossom will not sweeten dry bread mean? It is an Eastern African proverb?
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Well taken at face value I assume it's suggesting that you need to wait for the strawberry to grow from the blossom and have patience before you'll have something to go on your bread. Of course it could also be somthing completly non-literal.
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This is about children of Israel (the Jews): you shall not shed your blood.  Means: you are not to kill each other.\nNo suicide or civil war concerned.
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Who's the quote from?\n\nWe are to fish for men/women with the truth of God's Word. When you fish you use bait or a lure. You dangle the bait enticingly and don't beat them over the head with it.\n\nGod and His Word do the cleaning.
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I love this excerpt from the Bible:\n\n“Love is always patient and kind; it is never jealous, love is never boastful or conceited; it is never rude or selfish; it does not take offense, and is not resentful. Love takes no pleasure in other people’s sins but delights in the truth; it is always ready to excuse, to trust, to hope, and to endure whatever comes. Love does not come to an end.”
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Well, I was going to answer your question, but.......you've already answered it yourself!  I's all in the scriptures.\n\nTo quote just a part of Proverbs 4 - "Acquire wisdom, acquire understanding. Do not forget, and do not turn aside from the sayings of my mouth.  Do not leave it, and it will keep you. Love it, and it will safeguard you.  Wisdom is the prime thing. Acquire wisdom; and with all that you acquire, acquire understanding.  Highly esteem it, and it will exalt you. It will glorify you because you embrace it.  To your head it will give a wreath of charm; a crown of beauty it will bestow upon you.”
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Almond Blossom\nA symbol of hope, sweetness, delicacy.\n\nAnemone\nWithered hopes, a dying love.\n\nAbor Vitae\nUnchanging friendship.\n\nBaby's Breath\nA symbol of the hope of procreation and new life, both for the married couple as a new unit and for future offspring.\n\nBleeding Heart\nA symbol of undying love. The petals of this perennial flower are slightly united into flattened, heart-shaped, or spurred corollas. Its colors are yellow, white, or red, pink or ivory and it blooms in the Spring. \n\nCamelia, white\nA symbol of loveliness.\n\nCarnation, deep red\nAlas! for my poor heart.\n\nCarnation, white\nA symbol of disdain.\n\nChina-Aster\nVariety.\n\nClover, four-leaf\nOne offers this to ask, "Be mine."\n\nClover, white\nThink of me.\n\nClover, red\nA symbol of industry.\n\nColumbine\nA symbol of folly.\n\nColumbine, purple\nThis means, "resolved to win."\n\nDaisy\nA symbol of innocence.\n\nDeadly Nightshade\nA symbol of falsehood.\n\nFern\nFascination.\n\nForget-me-not\nAs a symbol of true love. This also simply means, "forget me not." And it is, of course, also Alaska's state flower, and a wildflower that florists can use without risking insects creeping out in the middle of the service.\n\nFuchsia, scarlet\nTaste.\n\nGeranium, scarlet\nThis selection offers consolation.\n\nGeranium, rose\nA symbol of preference.\n\nGoldenrod\nThis says to the receiver: "Be cautious."\n\nHeliotrope\nA symbol of devotion.\n\nHoney-Flower\nLove, sweet and secret.\n\nHyacinth, white\nUnobtrusive loveliness.\n\nIvy\nA symbol of fidelity.\n\nLady's slipper\nWin me and wear me.\n\nLily, Day\nA symbol of coquetry.\n\nLily, white\nA symbol of purity and sweetness.\n\nLily, yellow\nA symbol of falsehood or gaiety.\n\nLily of the Valley\nThis symbolizes the return of happiness.\n\nMignonette\nThis says, "Your qualities surpass your charms."\n\nMonkshead\nDanger is near.\n\nMyrtle\nA symbol of love.\n\nOats\nThe witching soul of music.\n\nOrange Blossom\nChastity.\n\nPansy\nSymbolizes one's thoughts.\n\nPassion flower\nFaith.\n\nPeach Blossom\nThis says, "I am your captive."\n\nPear\nA symbol of affection.\n\nPeriwinkle\nAs a symbol of early friendship (blue), happy memories (white).\n\nPoppy\nAs a symbol of fantastic extravagance (scarlet), consolation (red). If the love is faithful, placing a petal in the palm of the hand and hitting it with a fist should produce a popping sound.\n\nPrimrose\nInconstancy.\n\nQuaking Grass\nA symbol of agitation.\n\nRose\nAs a symbol of love, pure and lovely (red rose buds), jealousy (yellow). See the listing for rose color symbols for more meanings.\n\nShamrock\nA symbol of lightheartedness.\n\nSnowdrop\nA symbol of hope, consolation. The flower is thought mythologically to have been a snowflake which was transformed to comfort Adam and Eve after they had been expelled from the Garden of Eden.\n\nStraw\nThis symbolizes agreement if it is intact, a broken agreement if it is broken.\n\nSunflower\nAs a symbol of the sun, and also haughtiness.\n\nTuberose\nDangerous pleasures.\n\nTulip\nAs a symbol of powerful love being declared (red), hopeless love (yellow). The heart burning symbolically like a flame.\n\nVerbena\nThis says, "Pray for me."
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Ephisians 4:29\nLet a rotten saying not proceed out of YOUR mouth, but whatever saying is good for building up as the need may be, that it may impart what is favorable to the hearers.
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"He is no fool who gives up what he cannot keep to gain that which he can never lose."\n\n--Jim Elliot, Christian missionary to South America, in Through Gates of Splendor, by Elisabeth Elliot
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Anything very fresh. Try grapefruit or watermelon. DO NOT eat dry fruit. That's stupid because dry fruit has naturally more sugars and less water. So you'll eat lots but never feel full.
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Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravenous wolves. You will know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes from thornbushes or figs from thistles? Even so, every good tree bears good fruit, but a bad tree bears bad fruit. A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, nor can a bad tree bear good fruit. Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. Therefore by their fruits you will know them. (Matthew 7:15-20)
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Unfortunately your first answer is the translation of the polite command "do not fear any but God."\n\nSwahili is not written in symbols.  \nI fear no one but god, with the implication that the lack of fear is a continuous verb etc...\n"Siogopi yoyote lakini Mungu."
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God maks no mistakes! It is man who makes mistakes!\n\n  I can;t believe that Christians are answering in such a childish manner concerning this question. First of all the apple bit is a myth incerted into our bibles by those we allow to translate and print it .for the past three hundred years Jews have been translating and printing the Christians Bible and perverting it I believe in order to make us ignorant of GODs true word\n\n The BIBLE says to STUDY TO SHOW YOURSELF THE APPROVED WORD OF GOD.  To do that you must not believe that simply because someone hands you a Bible it is the "approved word " of GOD. To do this you must put some effort in it in order to prove your love for GOD. You must research history and go back and research the anciant writings of the bible . The greek Septuagint is one such anciant manuscript of Gods true word, untouched by Jewish translator. It was left in the hands of the Greeks because God knew they would not misstanslate it  and would present it as it was given to them. You can purchase an English version of the GReek Septuagitn today in order to put all these childhood , judao myths to rest.\n\n   First there was no fruit such as an apple in the bible. i have several old versions and in my 1703 verson it says that EVE WAS BEGUILED BY the SERPENT which is to mean that Eve was sexually tempted and did partake of the serpant in sex. \n\n God calls all things fruit because they are the fruit of GODS labor Adam and Eve were the fruit of GOdS labor and so was Satan.He says be fruitful and multiply meaning this toward humans and the multiplying of the people. He warned Adam and Eve that they could partake of any fruit in the garden which consisted only of Adam and Eve and the other fruit that God forbade them to partake of was the Fruit ( creation of satan whoc had more knwledge than they) of knowledge which was satan himself.\nDictionary\n par·take    ( P )  Pronunciation Key  (pär-tk)\nv. par·took, (-tk) par·tak·en, (-tkn) par·tak·ing, pa·takes \nv. intr.\nTo take or have a part or share; participate.  \nTo have part of the quality, nature, or character of something. \n\nv. tr.\nTo take or have a part in; share in.\n \n Eve was "Beguiled " (seduced ) by satan and that resulted in the son CAIN and later the Cannites.\n\nDictionary:Beguiled\n\nadj : filled with wonder and delight [syn: captivated, charmed, delighted, enthralled, entranced]\n\n     It was Cain who is the son of Satan and thusly the earthly seed of satan was born. \n\n  God warned them and Eve partook with satan once he beguiled and suduced her and then she shared with Adam whom when God asked why is it that they know they are naked, Adam responded " lord it is that woman you gave me." God was not madd at Adam because of the lust between Adam and Eve , He was angry because Eve disobeyed GOD and did partake of the fruit of knowledge ( the only one who had knowledge besides GOd at that time) and was impregnated with satans seed. God refers to all human creation as Fruit!\n\nGen 30:2 And Jacob's anger was kindled against Rachel: and he said, [Am] I in God's stead, who hath withheld from thee the fruit of the womb? \n\nExd 21:22 If men strive, and hurt a woman with child, so that her fruit depart [from her], and yet no mischief follow: he shall be surely punished, according as the woman's husband will lay upon him; and he shall pay as the judges [determine]. \n\nDeu 7:13 And he will love thee, and bless thee, and multiply thee: he will also bless the fruit of thy womb, and the fruit of thy land, thy corn, and thy wine, and thine oil, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep, in the land which he sware unto thy fathers to give thee. \n\n  In all transcripts of the Bible from 1611 back to the time of Christ there is no mention of an apple or the fruit of a tree . It read that Adam and Eve was not to partake of the fruit of knowledge whcih is the serpent satan. Jewish translation
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idioms. ever hear "as dry as a bone"? as in licked clean to the bone?\n\never see the hunt on the Serengeti?
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I am the Vine, you are the branches.\nHe who abides in Me, and I in him,\nbears much fruit, for without Me,\nyou can do nothing.\n\nJohn 15:5 \n\nI think it means you need Jesus in your daily life to be happy, and to prosper. He wants to be your best friend.
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In its simplest form it means what you don't know won't hurt you.\nIt's from Thomas Gray's 1742 poem, "Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College" and the full quote is:\nWhere ignorance is bliss, 'tis folly to be wise.
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I was always told to remember that dried fruit is real fruit.  You wouldn't eat a whole punnet of Apricots would you?  So don't eat a whole packet of dried ones.
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Hello happylife22842.. :)\n\nJesus said this:\n\nMatthew 5\n\n3  ¶ Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.\n \n4  ¶ Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted. Is. 61.2 \n \n5  ¶ Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth. Ps. 37.11 \n \n6  ¶ Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled. Is. 55.1, 2 \n \n7  ¶ Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy.\n \n8  ¶ Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God. Ps. 24.4, 5 \n \n9  ¶ Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God.\n \n10  ¶ Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness' sake: 1 Pet. 3.14 for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.\n \n11  ¶ Blessed are ye, when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake. 1 Pet. 4.14 \n \n12  Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great is your reward in heaven: for so persecuted they the prophets 2 Chr. 36.16 · Acts 7.52 which were before you.\n \n\nThe Salt of the Earth \n13  ¶ Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his savor, wherewith shall it be salted? it is thenceforth good for nothing, but to be cast out, and to be trodden under foot of men. Mk. 9.50 · Lk. 14.34, 35 \n \n\nThe Light of the World \n14  ¶ Ye are the light of the world. Joh. 8.12 ; 9.5 A city that is set on a hill cannot be hid.\n \n15  Neither do men light a candle, and put it under a bushel, but on a candlestick; Mk. 4.21 · Lk. 8.16 ; 11.33 and it giveth light unto all that are in the house.\n \n16  Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven. 1 Pet. 2.12 \n \n\nJesus' Attitude toward the Law \n17  ¶ Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil.\n \n18  For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled. Lk. 16.17 \n \n19  Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments, and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven: but whosoever shall do and teach them, the same shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven.\n \n20  For I say unto you, That except your righteousness shall exceed the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, ye shall in no case enter into the kingdom of heaven.\n \n\nJesus' Attitude toward Anger \nLk. 12.57-59  \n21  ¶ Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time, Thou shalt not kill; Ex. 20.13 · Deut. 5.17 and whosoever shall kill shall be in danger of the judgment:\n \n22  but I say unto you, That whosoever is angry with his brother without a cause shall be in danger of the judgment: and whosoever shall say to his brother, Raca, shall be in danger of the council: but whosoever shall say, Thou fool, shall be in danger of hell fire.\n \n23  Therefore if thou bring thy gift to the altar, and there rememberest that thy brother hath aught against thee;\n \n24  leave there thy gift before the altar, and go thy way; first be reconciled to thy brother, and then come and offer thy gift.\n \n25  Agree with thine adversary quickly, while thou art in the way with him; lest at any time the adversary deliver thee to the judge, and the judge deliver thee to the officer, and thou be cast into prison.\n \n26  Verily I say unto thee, Thou shalt by no means come out thence, till thou hast paid the uttermost farthing.\n \n===========================================================\n\nMatthew 5\n\nLove for Enemies \nLk. 6.27-36  \n38  ¶ Ye have heard that it hath been said, An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth: Ex. 21.24 · Lev. 24.20 · Deut. 19.21 \n \n39  but I say unto you, That ye resist not evil: but whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also.\n \n40  And if any man will sue thee at the law, and take aw