Fruitless Quotes

84 quotes by 80 authors

Stop trying to change the world since it is only the mirror. Manâ€™s attempt to change the world by force is as fruitless as breaking… — Neville Goddard
To believe in the God over us and around us and not in the God within us - that would be a powerless and fruitless… — Phillips Brooks
Although I am a strong political conservative, I now believe that the costs of our fruitless struggle against illegal drugs are not worth the modest… — Ernest Van den Haag
And as this is the obvious appearance of things, it must be admitted, till some hypothesis be discovered, which by penetrating deeper into human nature,… — David Hume
If we are to reach real peace in this world and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have… — Mahatma Gandhi
KFC has no excuse for refusing to adopt these basic, minimal animal-welfare standards ... After two years of fruitless negotiations with the company, we're trying… — Bruce Friedrich
All pursuits are pointless and fruitless unless and until love and compassion are found and then are the foundation and destination of all you do — Rasheed Ogunlaru
The rage for wanting to conclude is one of the most deadly and most fruitless manias to befall humanity. Each religion and each philosophy has… — Gustave Flaubert
A church in the land without the Spirit is rather a curse than a blessing. If you have not the Spirit of God, Christian worker,… — Charles Spurgeon
This deliberately nurtured hatred then spreads to all that is alive, to life itself, to the world with its colors, sounds, and shapes, to the… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Fruits fail and love dies and time ranges;Thou art fed with perpetual breath, and alive after infinite changes,And fresh from the kisses of death,Of langours… — Algernon Charles Swinburne
Grace does not demonize our desires nor destroy them nor lead us to deny them. Grace is the work of the Holy Spirit in transforming… — Sam Storms
Oh external worshiper, know that worship without heart is motions. Oh seeker of knowledge, know that knowledge without purification is a dangerous weapon of the… — Yasmin Mogahed
Language should almost break up or explode in its fruitless effort to contain so many meanings. — Eugene Ionesco
One of the most fruitless, irritating wastes in the world is arguing-the contentious, endless kind of arguing that is akin to quarreling, and causes feuding… — Richard L. Evans
Are not our desires inseparably intertwined with the continuation of life? Even the idea of eliminating desire is fruitless. The desire to eliminate all desire… — Sadhu Sundar Singh
I am suggesting that we spend a little less time in idleness, in the fruitless pursuit of watching inane and empty television programs. Time so… — Gordon B. Hinckley
Dreams grow holy put in action; work grows fair through starry dreaming, But where each flows on unmingling, both are fruitless and in vain. — Adelaide Anne Procter
I find life itself provides ample and sufficient tests of my valor and mettle: illness; betrayal; fruitless searches for love; working for the abusive, the… — David Rakoff
Your touch has still its ancient power, No word from You can fruitless fall; Hear, in this solemn evening hour, And in Your mercy heal… — Henry Twells

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