Quotes about Transience
on the day the keepers of the house tremble and the strong men stoop, when those grinding cease because they are few and those watching through windows see dimly,
— Ecclesiastes 12:3
A voice says, “Cry out!” And I asked, “What should I cry out?” “All flesh is like grass, and all its glory like the flowers of the field.
— Isaiah 40:6
The grass withers and the flowers fall when the breath of the LORD blows on them; indeed, the people are grass.
— Isaiah 40:7
The grass withers and the flowers fall, but the word of our God stands forever.”
— Isaiah 40:8
No sooner are they planted, no sooner are they sown, no sooner have their stems taken root in the ground, than He blows on them and they wither, and a whirlwind sweeps them away like stubble.
— Isaiah 40:24
Therefore they will be like the morning mist, like the early dew that vanishes, like chaff blown from a threshing floor, like smoke through an open window.
— Hosea 13:3
Your guards are like the swarming locust, and your scribes like clouds of locusts that settle on the walls on a cold day. When the sun rises, they fly away, and no one knows where.
— Nahum 3:17
If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the furnace, will He not much more clothe you, O you of little faith?
— Matthew 6:30
If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the furnace, how much more will He clothe you, O you of little faith!
— Luke 12:28
and those who use the things of this world, as if not dependent on them. For this world in its present form is passing away.
— 1 Corinthians 7:31
For we brought nothing into the world, so we cannot carry anything out of it.
— 1 Timothy 6:7
But the one who is rich should exult in his low position, because he will pass away like a flower of the field.
— James 1:10