Quotes About Fruitless

A persistently fruitless hearer of the Word cannot be a disciple of Jesus.

The great need to grasp principles had caused me to spend most of my time on fruitless persuits.

Like the fabled Charge of the Light Brigade, Farnsworth's Charge was brave, memorable, and fruitless.

I trusted Barney's political instincts and concluded that fighting the council proposal would be fruitless.

When I was ready, I eased in beside him. Immediately I felt my muscles trying to shrink back from the heat, and knew that in a moment they would give up their fruitless struggle and surrender to delirious relaxation.

Idleness is emptiness; the tree in which the sap is stagnant, remains fruitless.

Harvey Hill expressed no regrets for his mulishness and no sympathy for what Lee was seeking to accomplish. "Genl. Lee is venturing upon a very hazardous movement," he told his wife; "and one that must be fruitless, if not disastrous.

This path`s a dire thing, the gate it leads to is like a corpse over which ten thousand nightmares bicker their fruitless claims.

Self-pity is not a pleasant emotion and is a fruitless one as well, for its point of no return is an onset of black despair in very short order.

He had to go there because of Patrick; and because it was fated. Yes, that gave him courage, to feel that he had not sought it, it had come upon him, and however fruitless or disastrous that journey might be, he had to undertake it, because it was his fate.

The man is as useless as nipples on a breastplate.

Liberty without Learning is always in peril and Learning without Liberty is always in vain.

The avaricious man is like the barren sandy ground of the desert which sucks in all the rain and dew with greediness, but yields no fruitful herbs or plants for the benefit of others.

Intuition, like a flash of lightning, lasts only for a second. It generally comes when one is tormented by a difficult decipherment and when one reviews in his mind the fruitless experiments already tried. Suddenly the light breaks through and one finds after a few minutes what previous days of labor were unable to reveal.

You can spend fruitless hours in prayer if your heart is not prepared beforehand. Preparation of the heart, the spirit, comes from meditation in the Father's Word, meditation on who you are in Christ, what He is to you, and what the Holy Spirit can mean to you as you become God-inside minded.

We go hungry because we keep expecting fruit from barren lands.

The rage of the disesteemed is personally fruitless, but it is also so absolutely inevitable; this rage, so generally discounted, so little understood even among the people whose daily bread it is, is one of the things that makes history. Rage can only with difficulty, and never entirely, be brought under the domination of the intelligence and is therefore not susceptible to any arguments whatever.

I kind of embarked on a fruitless search to find information about my character, Frederick Aiken. And it was fruitless, unfortunately, because there's so little about him.

Why then I'll fit you, say no more.When I was young, I gave my mindAnd plied myself to fruitless poetry:Which though it profit the professor naughtYet it is passing pleasing to the world.

The prayer that is faithless is fruitless.

Convencer es infructuoso.

It looked exhausting and pointless, two things that should be avoided at all costs

Dreams grow holy put in action; work grows fair through starry dreaming, But where each flows on unmingling, both are fruitless and in vain.

Their useless torches on dry hedges throw, That catch the flames, and kindle all the row; So burns the God, consuming in desire, And feeding in his breast a fruitless fire