Found 343 Results for: Worldly Wisdom

• My son, learn the lessons of youth, and garner wisdom against thy grey hairs; (Ecclesiasticus 6, 18)

• how light the toil wisdom claims, the fruits of her how soon enjoyed! (Ecclesiasticus 6, 20)

• The enlightenment which comes with wisdom is true to its name; known to so few, yet where men are acquainted with it, it waits to light them into the presence of God.✻ (Ecclesiasticus 6, 23)

• Yield foot of thine to wisdom’s fetters, neck of thine to her collar, (Ecclesiasticus 6, 25)

• here is true knowledge for the listening, here is wisdom if thou wilt lend an ear. (Ecclesiasticus 6, 34)

• Think ever upon God’s commandments, and be constant in the following of his will; be sure he will give thee perseverance, and all thy desire for wisdom shall be granted thee. (Ecclesiasticus 6, 37)

• A man may be lowly born, and yet rise high through the wisdom that is in him, till at last he takes his seat among men of rank. (Ecclesiasticus 11, 1)

• in God’s keeping are wisdom and temperance and knowledge of the law, charity and the good life. (Ecclesiasticus 11, 15)

• For all thy wisdom, do not hold thyself too cheap, or thou wilt lower thyself to folly. (Ecclesiasticus 13, 11)

• that can plan out in his heart all wisdom’s twists and turns, fathom her secrets! Like a spy he follows her, and lingers in her tracks, (Ecclesiasticus 14, 23)

• Wisdom shall be the shade under which his children find their appointed resting-place; her spreading boughs (Ecclesiasticus 14, 26)

• shall protect them from the noon-day heat; wisdom shall be the monument of his glorious repose. (Ecclesiasticus 14, 27)