Quotes about Fruitless
He will be like a vine stripped of its unripe grapes, like an olive tree that sheds its blossoms.
— Job 15:33
The prayer that is faithless is fruitless.
— Thomas Watson
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!
— Horatius Bonar
for as gospel gifts are useless without attending unto gospel institutions, so gospel institutions are found to be fruitless and unsatisfactory without the attaining and exercising of gospel gifts.
— John Owen
Should he argue with useless words or speeches that serve no purpose?
— Job 15:3
Other seed fell among thorns, which grew up and choked the seedlings, and they yielded no crop.
— Mark 4:7
Seeing a fig tree by the road, He went up to it but found nothing on it except leaves. “May you never bear fruit again!” He said. And immediately the tree withered.
— Matthew 21:19
He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own dispositions will waste his life in fruitless efforts and multiply the griefs which he purposes to remove
— Samuel Johnson
You will seek them but will not find them. Those who wage war against you will come to nothing.
— Isaiah 41:12
A persistently fruitless hearer of the Word cannot be a disciple of Jesus.
— John Piper
Thus they in mutual accusation spent The fruitless hours, but neither self—condemning; And of their vain contest' appeared no end. (The closing lines of Book Nine, which illuminates The Fall.)
— John Milton
Do not turn aside after worthless things that cannot profit you or deliver you, for they are empty.
— 1 Samuel 12:21