Quotes about Vain

We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain.

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

If there be ground for you to trust in your own righteousness, then, all that Christ did to purchase salvation, and all that God did to prepare the way for it is in vain.

I reflected much on that vain desire, which had pursued me for so many years, of being in solitude in order to be a Christian. I have now, thought I, solitude enough; but am I therefore the nearer being a Christian? Not if Jesus Christ be the model of Christianity.

Sow truth, if thou the truth wouldst reap: Who sows the false shall reap the vain.

But vain to popularize profundities, and all truth is profound.

Remarriage while the true partner is living is a vain attempt to give respectability to dishonor by invoking a human law that overthrows God's law:

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

Was never true love loved in vain, For truest love is highest gain.

When the heart is far from God, worship is vain, empty, and nonexistent, no matter how proper the forms are. The experience of the heart is the defining, vital, indispensable essence of worship.

Fight for us, O God, that we not drift numb and blind and foolish into vain and empty excitements. Life is too short, too precious, too painful to waste on worldly bubbles that burst. Heaven is too great, hell is too horrible, eternity is too long that we should putter around on the porch of eternity.

Favour is deceitful and beauty is vain, but I should not have minded finding that out for myself, if it had been so ordained. I have no doubt we will all be beautiful when we are angels, but what good will it do us then?