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Good feelings and desires are useless if they are not accompanied by action.
— JC Ryle
One useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three is a Congress.
— John Adams
Look at God's incredible waste of His saints, according to the world's judgment. God seems to plant His saints in the most useless places. And then we say, "God intends for me to be here because I am so useful to Him." Yet Jesus never measured His life by how or where He was of the greatest use. God places His saints where they will bring the most glory to Him, and we are totally incapable of judging where that may be.
— Oswald Chambers
When critics disagree, the artist is in accord with himself. We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it. The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely. All art is quite useless.
— Oscar Wilde
Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful. —SAMUEL JOHNSON (1709—1784)
— RT Kendall
Anything that one imagines of God apart from Christ is only useless thinking and vain idolatry.
— Martin Luther
God plants His saints in the most useless places. We say, 'God intends me to be here because I am so useful.' Jesus never estimated His life along the line of the greatest use. God puts His saints where they will glorify Him, and we are no judge at all of where that is.
— Oswald Chambers
Learning without thinking is useless. Thinking without learning is dangerous.
— Confucius
Should he argue with useless words or speeches that serve no purpose?
— Job 15:3
Worry does no good and can impact your life in negative ways. I'm sure you have noticed how absolutely powerless you feel when you worry or you're anxious and troubled, because worry is indeed completely useless. It is a waste of time and energy because it never changes your circumstances.
— Joyce Meyer
So the former commandment is set aside because it was weak and useless
— Hebrews 7:18
A life once spent is irrevocable. It will remain to be contemplated through eternity. If it be marked with sins, the marks will be indelible. If it has been a useless life, it can never be improved. Such it will stand forever and ever. The same may be said of each day.
— Adoniram Judson