Man: Compared to Vanity

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Psalm 144:4
Man is like to vanity: his days are as a shadow that passes away.
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The Fortieth Chapter: Man Has no Good in Himself and Can Glory in ...
... For when a man is pleased with himself he displeases You, when he ... all temporal honor,
all worldly position is truly vanity and foolishness compared to Your ...
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That Man Hath no Good in Himself, and Nothing Whereof to Glory
... whilst he gapeth after the praises of man, he is ... glory, all temporal honour, all
worldly exultation, compared to Thy eternal glory, is but vanity and folly ...
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Upon Compassion. Preached the First Sunday in Lent.
... the principles of action in the heart of man, compared with the ... deficiencies of human
life itself; that every man at his best estate is altogether vanity. ...
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Of the Truth of the Christian Doctrine, and the Vanity of Its ...
... Doubtless the crafty man wished to conceal the wolf ... own conclusion [951] convicts
you of folly, vanity, and error ... The pagans compared his life and actions with ...
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God's Exhaustive Knowledge of Man.
... But if the whole universe of matter should combine to crush him, man would be ... The
action of a little child is altogether nothing and vanity compared with the ...
/.../shedd/sermons to the natural man/gods exhaustive knowledge of man.htm

Remembering How Far the Writer of Our Book Excels all who have ...
... they only increase vanity. ... his own heart to find out what is that good portion for
man; and the ... Solomon in all his glory had no throne to be compared to hers ...
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The Conversion of Paul.
... to perish in ignorance; while to this man, compared with whom ... with the Holy Ghost."
Grace makes a man soon forget ... of passion, of self-interest, or of vanity. ...
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Their Rock and Our Rock
... of their objects of trust, when compared with that of ... We do not assert that every
man consciously comes to ... generation, of the old, old wail, 'Vanity of vanities ...
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That Forgetfulness of Reason Makes Men Ignorant of the True God,
... the emptiness of these things, and brought to light the impious vanity of men ... [115]
The allusion is to the upright attitude of man, as compared with other ...
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Man's Greatness and God's Greatness.
... Compared with these stupendous figures, 6,000 years of our ... similitude by condescension,
than the man who has ... of which this world is full"vanity and pride. ...
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