Quotes about Empty

If you aren't hungry for God, you are full of yourself. That's why God cannot fill you with His Spirit. But if you will empty yourself, if you will die to self, you'll be a different person by the time you reach the last page of this book.

It is rumored that the plague has broken out here, but the report is empty and false; by the favor of Christ everything is safe and quiet.

History, I believe, brings us to the point where we are bound to say: there really was an empty tomb, and there really were sightings of Jesus, the same and yet transformed. History then says: so how do you explain that? It offers us no easy escapes at that point, no quick side-exits to the question.

Desire in itself is empty, in other words it merely indicates direction, but never destination; destinations, in any case, always remain phantasmagoric and unclear; the closer we get to them, the more enigmatic they become. By no means is it possible to ever actually attain a given destination, nor, in so doing, appease desire.

They replied, “If you return the ark of the God of Israel, do not send it away empty, but by all means return it to Him with a guilt offering. Then you will be healed, and you will understand why His hand has not been lifted from you.”

Do not turn aside after worthless things that cannot profit you or deliver you, for they are empty.

“Go,” said Elisha, “borrow jars, even empty ones, from all your neighbors. Do not gather just a few.

So they arose at twilight and went to the camp of the Arameans. But when they came to the outskirts of the camp, there was not a man to be found.

You claim to have a strategy and strength for war, but these are empty words. In whom are you now trusting, that you have rebelled against me?

“Does a wise man answer with empty counsel or fill his belly with the hot east wind?

So how can you comfort me with empty words? For your answers remain full of falsehood.”

Surely God does not listen to empty pleas, and the Almighty does not take note of it.