Bible Dictionary: Vanity: All Earthly Things Are

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Nave's Topical Index

Ecclesiastes 1:2
Vanity of vanities, said the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity.
Nave's Topical Index

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Of Fairness of Mind: Vanity of the World: Love of God: and Union ...
... Therefore the virtue of our life stands in this: that vanity being despised and
spurned, we cleave unpartingly to truth. All earthly things which are desired ...
//christianbookshelf.org/rolle/the fire of love/chapter xix of fairness of.htm

Of Man's Turning to God; and what Helps and what Lets his Turning.
... concupiscence; and holding to old manners of wickedness, they love the vanity of
this ... all their mind to God they take entent, and in all earthly things not lust ...
//christianbookshelf.org/rolle/the fire of love/chapter i of mans turning.htm

That a True Lover Despises Worldly Things and Desires Heavenly ...
... truly, must empty out all desire for all kinds of passing vanity before it ... For love
therefore it longs, because it sets at nought all earthly things whiles it ...
//christianbookshelf.org/rolle/the fire of love/chapter xxviii that a true.htm

Popular Renown and Inquisitiveness are Condemned in the Sacred ...
... there is one book of Solomon, called Ecclesiastes, which at great length brings
all earthly things into utter contempt. The book begins thus: "Vanity of the ...
/.../chapter 21 name renown and.htm

Of the Sighings, Desire, and Meekness of a Perfect Lover: and of ...
... that they only take heed to earthly things; everlasting putting ... The righteous forsooth
putting back all feignedness of ... not to the love of void vanity, that, in ...
/...//christianbookshelf.org/rolle/the fire of love/chapter xxvi of the sighings.htm

The Image of the Earthly and the Heavenly
... Easter day says, Your labour is not vanity and vexation of ... written that he was of
the earth, earthly, therefore my ... the author of eternal life to all who obey ...
/.../kingsley/all saints day and other sermons/sermon x the image of.htm

On St Barbara's Day, or that of any Other Holy virgin
... Augustine says: "He can contemplate who is free from all earthly thoughts, and thinks
of the things that are ... May I be able to withstand the vanity and the ...
//christianbookshelf.org/tauler/the inner way/sermon ii on st barbaras.htm

Of the Praise and Might of Charity: and of Forsaking the World ...
... with unlawful things and flatteries of this world, and all vanity and softness ... raise
us to the heavens; and we through all our life desire earthly things. ...
//christianbookshelf.org/rolle/the fire of love/chapter xviii of the praise.htm

On Earthly Things
... On Earthly Things. ... same in a bad part about the sinner: you devour the earth all
the days of ... The dust is a sinner or the vanity of the flesh; in the psalm: like ...
/.../eucherius/the formulae of st eucherius of lyons/iii on earthly things.htm

James i. 9-11
... in earthly things, and has wholly merged himself in them, to him is transferred
what is said of the vanity of those possessions, which he has made his all. ...
/.../neander/the epistle of james practically explained/james i 11-sep.htm