Quotes About Transience

“Do you see all these great buildings?” Jesus replied. “Not one stone here will be left on another; every one will be thrown down.”

The seeds on rocky ground are those who hear the word and receive it with joy, but they have no root. They believe for a season, but in the time of testing, they fall away.

Jesus replied, “Foxes have dens and birds of the air have nests, but the Son of Man has no place to lay His head.”

On that day, let no one on the housetop come down to retrieve his possessions. Likewise, let no one in the field return for anything he has left behind.

John was a lamp that burned and gave light, and you were willing for a season to bask in his light.

The poor you will always have with you, but you will not always have Me.”

What I am saying, brothers, is that the time is short. From now on those who have wives should live as if they had none;

those who weep, as if they did not; those who are joyful, as if they were not; those who make a purchase, as if they had nothing;

and those who use the things of this world, as if not dependent on them. For this world in its present form is passing away.

For if what was fading away came with glory, how much greater is the glory of that which endures!

So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen. For what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.

Now we know that if the earthly tent we live in is dismantled, we have a building from God, an eternal house in heaven, not built by human hands.

For in this tent we groan, longing to be clothed with our heavenly dwelling,

Therefore we are always confident, although we know that while we are at home in the body, we are away from the Lord.

For we brought nothing into the world, so we cannot carry anything out of it.

They will perish, but You remain; they will all wear out like a garment.

You will roll them up like a robe; like a garment they will be changed; but You remain the same, and Your years will never end.”

The words “Once more” signify the removal of what can be shaken—that is, created things—so that the unshakable may remain.

For here we do not have a permanent city, but we are looking for the city that is to come.

But the one who is rich should exult in his low position, because he will pass away like a flower of the field.

For the sun rises with scorching heat and withers the plant; its flower falls and its beauty is lost. So too, the rich man will fade away in the midst of his pursuits.

You do not even know what will happen tomorrow! What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes.

Your riches have rotted and moths have eaten your clothes.

For, “All flesh is like grass, and all its glory like the flowers of the field; the grass withers and the flowers fall,