Talált 842 Eredmények: Earth
the storm-wind shall rise in their faces, and scatter them as the gust scatters chaff. The whole earth ransacked, and the thrones of the mighty pulled down, by their own disobedience, their own malignancy! (Wisdom of Solomon 5, 24)
Or if sound judgement is man’s business, who else on earth goes to work so skilfully as she?✻ (Wisdom of Solomon 8, 6)
Ever the soul is weighed down by a mortal body, earth-bound cell that clogs the manifold activity of its thought. (Wisdom of Solomon 9, 15)
Thus ever were men guided by the right way, here on earth, and learned to know thy will; (Wisdom of Solomon 9, 18)
the whole world, matched against thee, is but a scruple on the balance, is but a drop of dew, falling to earth at sunrise. (Wisdom of Solomon 11, 23)
Despise we not the potter’s toil, that works the pliant earth between his fingers, and makes a cup here, a dish there for our use. Serve they noble ends or base, all alike come from the same clay, and what employment each of them shall find, it is the potter’s right to determine. (Wisdom of Solomon 15, 7)
But very ill is that toil bestowed, when he uses the same clay to fashion some god that is no god. Bethink thee, potter, that it is but a little while since thou thyself wast fashioned out of the same earth, and ere long, when the lease of thy soul falls due, to that earth thou shalt return. (Wisdom of Solomon 15, 8)
never was sword so sharp, errand so unmistakable; thy word that could spread death everywhere, that trod earth, yet reached up to heaven. (Wisdom of Solomon 18, 16)
Sand thou mayst count, or the rain-drops, or the days of the world’s abiding; heaven-height thou mayst measure, or the wide earth, or the depth of the world beneath, (Ecclesiasticus 1, 2)
Lion if thou must be, let not thy own house feel the brunt of it, thy own servants harried, thy own slaves beaten to the earth. (Ecclesiasticus 4, 35)
No generous act but shall win God’s consideration; he weighs each man’s merits, knows how each passed his time on earth. (Ecclesiasticus 16, 15)
Why, the very heavens, and the heavens that are above the heavens, the great deep, and the whole earth with all it contains, shrink away at the sight of him; (Ecclesiasticus 16, 18)
