Bible Dictionary: Vanity: Worldly Anxiety

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Psalm 39:6
Surely every man walks in a vain show: surely they are disquieted in vain: he heaps up riches, and knows not who shall gather them.
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Psalm 127:2
It is vain for you to rise up early, to sit up late, to eat the bread of sorrows: for so he gives his beloved sleep.
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Library

Homilies on the Epistles to Timothy, Titus, and Philemon.
... Garments, vanity of worldly, [3366]414. ... Lusts, worldly, [3527]536 ... appointed by command
of God, [3633]408; sent by Father and Son, [3634]ib.; anxiety for Timothy ...
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How the Promise of an Hundredfold in this Life is Made to those ...
... patience, instead of the stress of anxiety and trouble ... fruits of sorrow, instead
of the vanity of temporal ... this world for our scorn of worldly advantages, more ...
/.../cassian/the conferences of john cassian/chapter xxvi how the promise.htm

Vocation.
... in the interest of his client, awaiting with pious anxiety the issue of ... her choice
with a view of pandering to her vanity, curiosity, worldly love, or ...
/.../sainte-foi/serious hours of a young lady/chapter xii vocation.htm

Divine Calls.
... through which the call comes to us; which shows us the vanity of things ... so it is;
let our temptation be to sloth, or irresolution, or worldly anxiety, or pride ...
/.../newman/parochial and plain sermons vol viii/sermon ii divine calls.htm

With the Entry of Angela's Great Picture "The Coming of Christ" ...
... If we make our marriages for worldly advantage, vanity, blind desire, or ... souls of
too-exultant politicians and statesmen with anxiety for themselves ...
/.../corelli/the master-christian/xxxviii with the entry of.htm

Book Eight Conversion to Christ. ...
... servant's hope and he paid no attention to their vanity and lying ... so tightly held,
and from the slavery of worldly business. ... 252] With increasing anxiety I was ...
/.../augustine/confessions and enchiridion/book eight conversion to christ .htm

The one Escape.
... and struggle, any more than of distress and anxiety, or of ... turn away mine eyes, lest
they behold vanity, and quicken ... as I am afraid too many worldly men, poor ...
/.../kingsley/westminster sermons/sermon xiii the one escape.htm

Letter xvi. --Sensitiveness About Defects.
... wrong in finding your weakness a subject for anxiety. ... and desire of abjection, just
as worldly people feed their minds on thoughts and desires of vanity. ...
/.../abandonment to divine providence/letter xvi sensitiveness about defects.htm

1 Timothy v. 15-Nov
... be able to correct that indolence and vanity of mind ... with the Levites; they had no
worldly concerns, because ... another wears himself out with anxiety and exertion ...
/.../homily xv 1 timothy v.htm

Letter ccxx. (AD 427. )
... while that event was yet recent, the vanity of this ... not with a godly desire, but
from worldly motives? ... partially gratified by you, in your anxiety to prevent ...
/.../augustine/the confessions and letters of st/letter ccxx a d 427.htm