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She laid bare the shallowness of their thoughts, the selfishness of their purposes, and the spiritual unfruitfulness of their teachings.

From George Eliot; a Critical Study of Her Life, Writings & Philosophy by Cooke, George Willis

Too long has she cursed me by her unfruitfulness.

From Shorter Novels, Eighteenth Century The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia; The Castle of Otranto, a Gothic Story; Vathek, an Arabian Tale by Beckford, William

Origen believed that demons produce famine, unfruitfulness, corruptions of the air and pestilences.

From Modern Religious Cults and Movements by Atkins, Gaius Glenn

A day was set apart “to humble themselves before God, for all their unfruitfulness under the means of grace enjoyed in the old meeting-house, and to bless the building of another one.”

From The New England Magazine, Volume 1, No. 4, Bay State Monthly, Volume 4, No. 4, April, 1886 by Various

Because He wished to impress upon His disciples the terrible danger of unfruitfulness.

From Mother Stories from the New Testament A Book of the Best Stories from the New Testament that Mothers can tell their Children by Anonymous