Francis Bacon Quote

God grant that we may contend with other churches as the vine with the olive, which of us shall bear the best fruit; but not as the brier with the thistle, which of us shall be most unprofitable.

Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical (1917)

God grant that we may contend with other churches as the vine with the olive, which of us shall bear the best fruit; but not as the brier with the...

God grant that we may contend with other churches as the vine with the olive, which of us shall bear the best fruit; but not as the brier with the...

God grant that we may contend with other churches as the vine with the olive, which of us shall bear the best fruit; but not as the brier with the...

God grant that we may contend with other churches as the vine with the olive, which of us shall bear the best fruit; but not as the brier with the...