Talált 618 Eredmények: Divine Wisdom

• wisdom is none in following the maxims of impiety, prudence is none in scheming as the wicked scheme. (Ecclesiasticus 19, 19)

• Cunning rogues they may be, yet altogether abominable; a fool he must ever be called, that lacks the true wisdom.✻ (Ecclesiasticus 19, 20)

• Wisdom keeps its utterance in reserve, where the fool’s vanity cannot wait. (Ecclesiasticus 20, 7)

• Wisdom hidden is wasted, is treasure that never sees the light of day; (Ecclesiasticus 20, 32)

• silence is rightly used when it masks folly, not when it is the grave of wisdom. (Ecclesiasticus 20, 33)

• no wisdom or discernment but is the fruit of God’s fear. (Ecclesiasticus 21, 13)

• Where true wisdom is, there discernment flows in full tide, there prudence springs up, an inexhaustible fountain of life. (Ecclesiasticus 21, 16)

• Heart of fool is leaking bucket, that loses all the wisdom it learns. (Ecclesiasticus 21, 17)

• Truths that wisdom will prize and cherish, the profligate hears no less, but hearing despises, and casts them to the winds. (Ecclesiasticus 21, 18)

• Speech may be out of season, like music in time of mourning; not so the rod, not so chastisement; there lies ever wisdom.✻ (Ecclesiasticus 22, 6)

• Be my thoughts ever under the lash, my heart disciplined by true wisdom; let it never deal gently with their unwitting offences, or gloss over the wrong they do! (Ecclesiasticus 23, 2)

• Lord, that gavest my life and art the divine ruler of it, let them not have me at their mercy; (Ecclesiasticus 23, 4)