Sentences with phrase «clanging symbols»

Paul said that without love, no amount of eloquence, wisdom, knowledge, prophecy, faith, charity, or sacrifice can compensate for the fact that we are little more than noisy, clanging symbols.

Even if I'm right about something, without love, I become nothing more than an annoying, clanging symbol (1 Corinthians 13:1).

the dilation of which plunges me into the depths of an eternal well of wisdom momentarily cut to the quick i put down my clanging symbol

Do I hear a clanging symbol?

«If I come to a place where I value my want over someone else's need, I've become a clanging symbol dressed in rags.»