Quotes About Vain

...it is human nature, I suppose, to be futile and ridiculous.

It is in vain for man to endeavor to instruct man in those things which the Holy Spirit alone can teach.

We will bankrupt ourselves in the vain search for absolute security.

It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics.

With stupidity, even the gods struggle in vain.') Friedrich Schiller (1759–1805)

Odor of blood when Christ was slainMade all Platonic tolerance vainAnd vain all Doric discipline.

If thy thoughts be not broadly wicked, then inquire whether they be not empty, frothy, vain imaginations, that have no subserviency to the glory of God, thy own good or others'; and if so, leave not till thou hast made thyself apprehensive of Satan's design on thee, in them. Though such are not for thy purpose, yet they are for his; they serve his turn to keep thee from better.

Death is not more certainly a separation of our souls from our bodies than the Christian life is a separation of our souls from worldly tempers, vain indulgences, and unnecessary cares.

This Truth, therefore, that the Kingdom of God is within us, that its light is solely the Lamb of God, its Spirit solely the Spirit of God, stands upon a Rock, against which all Attempts are in vain.

Wherever Christ is not, there is the Wrath of Nature or Nature left to itself and its own tormenting Strength of Life, to feel nothing in itself but the vain, restless Contrariety of its own working Properties.

How vain the opinion is of some certain people of the East Indies, who think that apes and baboons, which are with them in great numbers, are imbued with understanding, and that they can speak but will not, for fear they should be imployed and set to work. —Antoine Le Grand, c. 1675

Accuracy is, in every case, advantageous to beauty, and just reasoning to delicate sentiment. In vain would we exalt the one by depreciating the other.

If God had not intended that Women shou'd use their Reason, He wou'd not have given them any, 'for He does nothing in vain.

Against boredom the gods themselves fight in vain.

I was very precocious. I was pleased with myself. I thought I was very good-looking and I thought I was very clever - and I was.

If we are in earnest about giving the Union energy and duration we must abandon the vain project of legislating upon the States in their collective capacities.

It's a vain hope to believe that people will voluntarily turn their back on government subsidies.

Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain.

Smile is the vainest thing you can wear without costing you anything

Why abandon a seat in your own home to wander in vain through dusty regions of another land? If you make one false step, you miss what is right before your eyes.

Baz arched an elegant brow. "Are you going to snog the Humdrum-is that your plan? Because he's eleven. And he looks just like you. That's both vain and deviant, Snow, even for you.

Anything that one imagines of God apart from Christ is only useless thinking and vain idolatry.

Ask, and it shall be given until you. That is no vain or untried promise, Ruth!

i shall imagine life is not worth dying,if (and when)roses complain their beauties are in vain but though mankind persuades itself that every weed's a rose,roses(you feel certain)will only smile