Talált 427 Eredmények: Downcast Spirit

• At these words, the spirit of the whole people revived; (1 Maccabees 13, 7)

• All at once the spirit of God, the omnipotent, gave signal proof of its presence; daunted by the divine power they trembled and stood irresolute, these ministers of wrong. (2 Maccabees 3, 24)

• Gay heart, gay looks; sad thoughts crush the spirit. (Proverbs 15, 13)

• All mortal ills the spirit of man can bear; if the spirit itself be impatient, there is no lightening his lot. (Proverbs 18, 14)

• Man’s spirit is a lamp the Lord gives, to search out the hidden corners of his being. (Proverbs 20, 27)

• Banish the reckless spirit, and strife goes out with him; thou art rid of quarrelling and of disgrace. (Proverbs 22, 10)

• Who has a right to tell us that the spirit of man mounts upwards, and the spirit of a beast sinks down to the depth? (Ecclesiastes 3, 21)

• Look well what thou art doing when thou goest into God’s house; present thyself there in a spirit of obedience. Obedience is far better than the sacrifice made by fools, that are guilty of unwitting sacrilege.✻ (Ecclesiastes 4, 17)

• Frown ere thou smile; the downcast look betokens a chastened heart. (Ecclesiastes 7, 4)

• with that, back goes dust to its parent earth, and the spirit✻ returns to God who gave it. (Ecclesiastes 12, 7)

• A holy thing it is, the spirit that brings instruction; how it shrinks away from the touch of falsehood, holds aloof from every rash design! It is a touchstone, to betray the neighbourhood of wrong-doing. (Wisdom of Solomon 1, 5)

• A good friend to man is this spirit of wisdom, that convicts the blasphemer of his wild words; God can witness his secret thoughts, can read his heart unerringly, and shall his utterance go unheard? (Wisdom of Solomon 1, 6)