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“And O! be sure to fear the Lord alway, And mind your duty, duly, morn and night; Lest in temptation's path ye gang astray, Implore His counsel and assisting might: They never sought in vain that sought the Lord aright.”

Mind Might Night Lord Path Duty Temptation Vain Gang Assisting

Author:Robert Burns

“The Lord who cannot endure vain repetitions is equally weary of vain variations.”

Lord Endure Vanity Vain Weary Repetition Variation

Book:Treasury of David

Source: Treasury of David

“Those who have not obtained the Blessed Vision, the Blessed Vision of the Darshan of the True Guru, the Almighty Lord God they have fruitlessly, uselessly wasted their whole lives in vain.”

Whole Vision Lord Blessed Whole Life Vain Almighty Guru Lord God

Author:Guru Nanak

“He that can toy with his ministry and count it to be like a trade, or like any other profession, was never called of God. But he that has a charge pressing on his heart, and a woe ringing in his ear, and preaches as though he heard the cried of hell behind him, and saw his God looking down on him-oh, how that man entreats the Lord that his hearers may not hear in vain!”

Source: The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 60: Sermons 3387-3439

“The secret belief that the Lord of conscience loves and accepts each faithful sacrifice is the ultimate and sufficient support of all goodness; dispensing with the chorus of approving voices; replacing all vain self-reliance with a Divine strength; and with the peace of a reconciled nature consoling the inevitable sorrows of a devoted life.”

Source: Hours of thought on sacred things, sermons

“I am ever Thine. If Thou cast me out, who shall take me in? If Thou disregard me, who shall look on me? More canst Thou remit, than I commit; more canst Thou spare, than I offend. Let not hurtful pleasures overcome me; at the least let not any perverse habit overwhelm me; From evil and unlawful desires; From vain, hurtful, impure imaginations; from the illusions of evil spirits; from pollutions of soul and of body; Good Lord, deliver me.”

Ifs Looks Soul Body Spirit Desire Evil Imagination Pleasure Lord Habit Illusion Overcoming Casts Commit Vain Take Me Pollution Spares Disregard Hurtful Unlawful Evil Spirits

Author:Lancelot Andrewes

“Labor in the Lord is not in vain. Labor outside the Lord may well be in vain. We labor in the Lord when we labor using His enablement for His glory.”

Wells May Lord Glory Labor Vain

Author:Aiden Wilson Tozer

“Love can take what shape he pleases; and when once begun his fiery inroad in the soul, how vain the after knowledge which his presence gives! We weep or rave; but still he lives, and lives master and lord, amidst pride and tears and pain.”

Giving Stills Soul Pain Lord Tears Masters Pride Please Shapes Vain Fiery Cupid Rave

Author:Bryan Procter

“I know I don't want to take the Lord's name in vain, and I don't want to drop any F-bombs.”

Knows Want Names Lord Vain Bombs

Author:Larry the Cable Guy

“We have been assured, Sir, in the Sacred Writings, that 'except the Lord build the House, they labor in vain that build it' I firmly believe this; by our partial local interests; our projects will be confounded, and we ourselves shall become a reproach and a by word down to future ages.”

Source: The Works of Benjamin Franklin: Containing Several Political and Historical Tracts Not Included in Any Former Edition, and Many Letters, Official and Private Not Hitherto Published; with Notes and a Life of the Author

“I shall look for whatever success may attend my public service; and knowing that "except the Lord keep the city the watchman waketh but in vain," with fervent supplications for His favor, to His overruling providence I commit with humble but fearless confidence my own fate and the future destinies of my country.”

Source: The Selected Writings of John and John Quincy Adams

“I feel like God has moved me into a different way of doing things. I teach basic on-camera acting class called Acting 101...In my classroom, the students get every ounce of encouragement and craft and anything I'm able to give them.We have some rules. We don't take the name of The Lord in vain. We don't use foul language when we mess up on camera...There's a climate of safety...They feel very protected.”

“It is vain to try and hide a bad spirit from the eyes of them who are spiritual, for it will show itself in speaking and in writing as well as in all other conduct, it is also useless to make great pretensions when the heart is not right before God, for God looks at the heart, and where the heart is not right the Lord will expose it to the view of the faithful.”

Writing Trying Wells Looks Heart Shows Eye Spiritual Spirit Views Lord Useless Vain Faithful Pretension

Author:Joseph Smith, Jr.

“Forbid it Lord that I should boast, save in the death of Christ, my God: All the vain things that charm me most, I sacrifice them to his blood.”

Should Christ Lord Sacrifice Blood Vain Charm Boast

Book:The Penny Watts's Hymns ... Selected and Abridged from Dr. Watts's Hymns

Source: The Penny Watts's Hymns ... Selected and Abridged from Dr. Watts's Hymns

“Let my lips avoid vain repetition as I lift my voice in praise, O Lord. Distract me from my distractions, awaken me from the dullness of mind, and transform habit and routine into vibrant times of worship.”

Mind Voice Lord Habit Worship Praise Lips Lifts Vain Routine Distraction Repetition Dullness

Book:The Heart of Praise: Daily Ways to Worship the Father with Psalms

Source: The Heart of Praise: Daily Ways to Worship the Father with Psalms