Quotes about Empty
For you know that it was not with perishable things such as silver or gold that you were redeemed from the empty way of life you inherited from your forefathers,
- 1 Peter 1:18
With lofty but empty words, they appeal to the sensual passions of the flesh and entice those who are just escaping from others who live in error.
- 2 Peter 2:18
Principles without facts are empty, but facts without principles are blind.
- Peter Kreeft
There is no life as empty as the self-centered life. There is no life as centered as the self-empty life.
- John Maxwell
A wasteland is a confrontation to a man of stature: an empty place, a gauntlet thrown down in challenge and defiance. A place like that cries out to be conquered and civilised.
- John C. Wright
the fullness of God is tucked into the sacred places within them. The full taking in of God is their soul oxygen. It's not that they don't need people. They do. God created them for community. But the way they love is from a full place, not from an empty desperation.
- Lysa TerKeurst
The posture is the lowest possible position in which we can put ourselves with empty hands and eager hearts.
- Lysa TerKeurst
The first thing that stuck in the minds of the disciples was not the empty tomb, but rather the empty grave clothes - undisturbed in form and position.
- Josh McDowell
This grace of light has been given to me during my retreat. Our Lord desires that we should receive Him into our hearts, and no doubt they are empty of creatures. Alas! mine is not empty of self; that is why He bids me come down. And I shall come down even to the very ground, that Jesus may find within my heart a resting-place for His Divine Head
- St. Therese of Lisieux
The Lord bestows his blessings there, where he finds the vessels empty.
- Thomas a Kempis
To yield is to be preserved whole.To be bent is to become straight.To be empty is to be full.To be worn out is to be renewed.To have little is to possess.To have plenty is to be perplexed.
- Lao Tzu
Without meaning, life is empty and day will follow day, month will follow month.
- Jane Goodall