Top 47 Quotes About Ecclesiastes
#1. Ecclesiastes 9:10 Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with all your might for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave whither you go.
Ray Looker
#2. The thoughts of the wise are in the house of mourning, but the thoughts of fools are in the house of pleasure" (CJB, Ecclesiastes 7:4).
H.W. Charles
#3. A cord of three strands is not quickly broken (Ecclesiastes 4:12). Obeying God is too hard. Trying to understand, and obey, the Scriptures will break you. If you go it alone.
Ben Reed
#4. It's interesting that in the Bible, in the book of Ecclesiastes, the only practical advice given about living a meaningful life is to find a job you like, enjoy your marriage, and obey God. It's as though God is saying, Write a good story, take somebody with you, and let me help.
Donald Miller
#5. That which has been is now;
and that which is to be
has already been.
Ecclesiastes 3:15
Amy Harmon
#6. Very well, said Oak, firmly, with the bearing of one who was going to give his days and nights to Ecclesiastes for ever.
Thomas Hardy
#7. The more the words the less the meaning and how does that benefit anyone?
Ecclesiastes 6:11
N.D. Richman
#8. Do we have the Book of Ecclesiastes?"
"One. A man named Harris in Youngstown."
"Montag." Granger took Montag's shoulder firmly. "Walk carefully. Guard your health. If anything should happen to Harris, you are the Book of Ecclesiastes. See how important you've become in the last minute!
Ray Bradbury
#9. God has made everything beautiful for its own time. - Ecclesiastes 3:11
Gary Chapman
#10. As Ecclesiastes tells it, a wholesale devotion to pleasure will, paradoxically, lead to a state of utter despair.
Philip Yancey
#11. There was "nothing new under the sun," as the beautiful Bible verses in Ecclesiastes put it - not so much because everything had been discovered but because everything would be forgotten.
Nate Silver
#12. The authors of Job and Ecclesiastes explicitly state that there is no afterlife.
Bart D. Ehrman
#13. Godly fear, faith, and humility is the true threefold cord that can't easily be broken (see Ecclesiastes 4:12).
John Bevere
#14. I have thought deeply about all that goes on here under the sun, where people have the power to hurt each other. - Ecclesiastes 8:9
Marc Seraphs
#15. Ecclesiastes said that "all is vanity," Most modern preachers say the same, or show it By their examples of true Christianity: In short, all know, or very short may know it.
Lord Byron
#16. Nothing is original. It says it right there in the Bible. Ecclesiastes:
That which has been is what will be, That which is done is what will be done, And there is nothing new under the sun.
Every new idea is just a mashup or a remix of previous ideas.
Austin Kleon
#17. The Ecclesiastes of the Old Testament says there is no new thing under the sun. We can also say there is no new thing above the sun!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#18. Ecclesiastes shows that man without God is in total ignorance and inevitable misery.
Blaise Pascal
#19. Ecclesiastes 7:20 clearly sounds the futility of legalism: There is not a righteous man on earth / who does what is right and never sins.
Beth Moore
#20. Madeline displayed the bright sadder-but-wiser outlook of an alert first grader who'd discovered the alphabet in a school where Ecclesiastes is the primer - life is futility, a deeply terrible experience, but the really serious thing is reading.
Philip Roth
#21. Torn between violence and disillusionment, I seem to myself a terrorist who, going out in the street to perpetrate some outrage, stops on the way to consult Ecclesiastes or Epictetus.
Emil Cioran
#22. When life is good, enjoy it. But when life is hard, remember:
God gives good times and hard times, and no one knows what tomorrow will bring. (Ecclesiastes 7:14, New Century Version)
Anonymous
#23. God is asking you to take care of this special place. He says: If a man is lazy, the rafters sag; if his hands are idle, the house leaks (Ecclesiastes 10:18).
Jim George
#24. 'There's nothing new under the sun': that's what you wrote, Ecclesiastes. But you yourself were born new under the sun.
Wislawa Szymborska
#25. But today I would suggest you ponder these verses from Ecclesiastes: "And he would have seven flights of madness in his soul, who, having hung his clothes beneath the sun, would groan at the hour of rain,
Arthur Rimbaud
#26. Meaningless! Meaningless!"
says the Teacher.
"Utterly meaningless!
Everything is meaningless."
Ecclesiastes 1:2
Anonymous
#27. God will bring into judgment
both the righteous and the wicked,
for there will be a time for every activity,
a time to judge every deed.
~Ecclesiastes 3:17
Jessica Fortunato
#28. And I declared that the dead, who had already died, are happier than the living, who are still alive. But better than both is the one who has never been born, who has not seen the evil that is done under the sun. (Ecclesiastes 4:2-3)
Anonymous
#29. Ecclesiastes would be quite unbearable were it not for Heavens eternity and its citizens".
~R. Alan Woods [2013]
R. Alan Woods
#30. He was right. Without God at the center, it is hopeless; it is empty; and it was designed by God to be so. The theme of Ecclesiastes could be stated, Life is supposed to taste like cardboard if you insist on eating the box!
Jim Berg
#31. Two are better off than one, because together they can work more effectively. If one of them falls down, the other can help him up ... Two people can resist an attack that would defeat one person alone. A rope made of three cords is hard to break. Ecclesiastes 4:9 (TEV)
Rick Warren
#32. But Ecclesiastes tells us, "There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under heaven." God's timing is not the same as ours. His ways are not our ways.
Stormie O'martian
#33. [Based upon the message of "nothing new under the sun" in Ecclesiastes,] If nothing ever changes, then God has no plan.
Jennifer Michael Hecht
#34. Enjoy life with the woman whom you love all the days of your fleeting life which He has given to you under the sun; for this is your reward ...
Ecclesiastes 9:9 (NASB)
Anonymous
#35. Because of laziness the roof caves in, and because of negligent hands the house leaks. Ecclesiastes 10:18
Beth Moore
#36. As he came from his mother's womb
Naked shall he return to go as he came
Nothing from his labor will he carry away in his hand
Ecclesiastes
Anonymous
#37. this saying of Ecclesiastes: "Who knoweth whither the soul of the animal goeth?
Victor Hugo
#38. I'll quote from Ecclesiastes to the Catholics, from the Koran to the Muslims, from the Torah to the Jews, from Aristotle to the atheists.
Paulo Coelho
#39. And further, by these, my son, be admonished: of making many books there is no end; and much study is a weariness of the flesh.
Ecclesiastes 12 12
#40. He who loves money never has money enough,
He who loves wealth never has enough profit;
This too is vanity.
Anonymous
#41. Live in such a way that even if given another opportunity to live your life all over again, you would still choose to live it exactly the same way that you are living your life now.
William B. Girao
#43. What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun
Solomon
#44. In the day of prosperity rejoice, but in the day of adversity consider: God hath set the one over against the other, to the end that man should find nothing after him.
Anonymous
#45. Of making many books there is no end, and much study wearies the body
Ecclesiastes 12 12
#46. All things come alike to all; there is one event to the righteous, and to the wicked; to the good and to the clean, and to the unclean; to him that sacrificeth, and to him that sacrificeth not.
Doris Lessing
#47. I Have Learned Why People Work So Hard To Succeed: It Is Because They Envy The Things Their Neighbors Have. But It Is Useless. It Is Like Chasing The Wind ... It Is Better To Have Only A Little, With Peace Of Mind, Than Be Busy All The Time With Both Hands, Trying To Catch The Wind
Anonymous
