Quotes about Futile

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.

How futile it is to spread the net where any bird can see it!

There is nothing Egypt can do—head or tail, palm or reed.

Fields plowed and sown, but yielding no fruit! Machinery constantly in motion, but all without one particle of produce! Nets cast into the sea and spread wide, but no fishes caught! All this for years — for a lifetime!

For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened.

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

Does worrying about it, complaining about it, change it? Nope, it just wastes your time. And if you complain about it to other people, you're also wasting their time. Nothing is gained by wasting all of that time.

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

To me, Herod symbolizes the terrible destruction that fearful people can leave in their wake if their fear is unacknowledged, if they have power but can only use it in furtive, pathetic, and futile attempts at self-preservation.

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

everyone will be put to shame because of a people useless to them. They cannot be of help; they are good for nothing but shame and reproach.”