Quotes about Vain

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

There will not be, nor arise in us, the righteousness of God, unless our own righteousness falls and perishes utterly. We do not rise unless we who are standing badly have first fallen. Thus altogether the being, holiness, truth, goodness, life of God, etc., are not in us, unless in the presence of God we first become nothing, profane, lying, evil, dead. Otherwise the righteousness of God would be mocked, and Christ would have died in vain.

A voice may whisper that it was no image, but only imagination; it was a mirage, a fantasy. But as the water settles, with gentle ripples still visible where the arrows went in, the image will return. We will gaze at it once more, and know that in the Lord our labour is not in vain.

and your strength will be spent in vain. For your land will not yield its produce, and the trees of the land will not bear their fruit.

May its morning stars grow dark; may it wait in vain for daylight; may it not see the breaking of dawn.

Since I am already found guilty, why should I labor in vain?

Should he argue with useless words or speeches that serve no purpose?

So Job opens his mouth in vain and multiplies words without knowledge.”

Why do the nations rage and the peoples plot in vain?

who speak of You deceitfully; Your enemies take Your name in vain.

When Moab appears on the high place, when he wearies himself and enters his sanctuary to pray, it will do him no good.

“I have struck your sons in vain; they accepted no discipline. Your own sword has devoured your prophets like a voracious lion.”