Trouvé 50 Résultats pour: futile

  • futile. And for all of us is reserved a common fate, for the upright and for the wicked, for the good and for the bad; whether we are ritually pure or not, whether we offer sacrifice or not: it is the same for the good and for the sinner, for someone who takes a vow, as for someone who fears to do so. (Ecclesiastes 9, 2)

  • Spend your life with the woman you love, all the days of futile life God gives you under the sun, throughout your futile days, since this is your lot in life and in the effort you expend under the sun. (Ecclesiastes 9, 9)

  • Rid your heart of indignation, keep your body clear of suffering, though youth and the age of black hair are both futile. (Ecclesiastes 11, 10)

  • Sheer futility, Qoheleth says, everything is futile. (Ecclesiastes 12, 8)

  • Then -- ill -- spent effort!-from the same clay he models a futile god, although so recently made out of earth himself and shortly to return to what he was taken from, when asked to give back the soul that has been lent to him. (Wisdom of Solomon 15, 8)

  • Bring no more futile cereal offerings, the smoke from them fills me with disgust. New Moons, Sabbaths, assemblies -- I cannot endure solemnity combined with guilt. (Isaiah 1, 13)

  • Egypt, whose help is vain and futile; and so I call her 'Rahab -the-collapsed'. (Isaiah 30, 7)

  • But I said, 'My toil has been futile, I have exhausted myself for nothing, to no purpose.' Yet all the while my cause was with Yahweh and my reward with my God. (Isaiah 49, 4)

  • Yahweh says this, 'What did your ancestors find wrong in me for them to have deserted me so far as to follow Futility and become futile themselves? (Jeremiah 2, 5)

  • Hark, from the daughter of my people the cry for help, ringing far and wide throughout the land! 'Is Yahweh no longer in Zion, her King no longer there?' (Why have they provoked me with their idols, with their futile foreign gods?) (Jeremiah 8, 19)

  • Yes, the customs of the peoples are quite futile: wood, nothing more, cut out of a forest, worked with a blade by a carver's hand, (Jeremiah 10, 3)

  • All of them are brutish and stupid: the Futile Ones' teaching is but wood, (Jeremiah 10, 8)


“Não queremos aceitar o fato de que o sofrimento é necessário para nossa alma e de que a cruz deve ser o nosso pão cotidiano. Assim como o corpo precisa ser nutrido, também a alma precisa da cruz, dia a dia, para purificá-la e desapegá-la das coisas terrenas. Não queremos entender que Deus não quer e não pode salvar-nos nem santificar-nos sem a cruz. Quanto mais Ele chama uma alma a Si, mais a santifica por meio da cruz.” São Padre Pio de Pietrelcina