Fondare 251 Risultati per: comfort in difficult times

• while if they die early, they have neither hope nor comfort on the day of judgement, (Wisdom of Solomon 3, 18)

• the beginning, end and middle of the times, the alternation of the solstices and the succession of the seasons, (Wisdom of Solomon 7, 18)

• Or if you are eager for wide experience, she knows the past, she forecasts the future; she knows how to turn maxims, and solve riddles; she has foreknowledge of signs and wonders, and of the unfolding of the ages and the times. (Wisdom of Solomon 8, 8)

• I therefore determined to take her to share my life, knowing that she would be my counsellor in prosperity and comfort me in cares and sorrow. (Wisdom of Solomon 8, 9)

• Do not try to understand things that are too difficult for you, or try to discover what is beyond your powers. (Ecclesiasticus 3, 21)

• Reflect on the injunctions of the Lord, busy yourself at all times with his commandments. He will strengthen your mind, and the wisdom you desire will be granted you. (Ecclesiasticus 6, 37)

• My child, do not sow in the furrows of wickedness, for fear you have to reap them seven times over. (Ecclesiasticus 7, 3)

• In prosperous times, disasters are forgotten and in times of disaster, no one remembers prosperity. (Ecclesiasticus 11, 25)

• He will make you feel small at his dinner parties and, having cleaned you out two or three times over, will end by laughing at you. Afterwards, when he sees you, he will avoid you and shake his head about you. (Ecclesiasticus 13, 7)

• In a time of plenty remember times of famine, think of poverty and want when you are rich. (Ecclesiasticus 18, 25)

• The wise will be cautious in everything, in sinful times will take care not to offend. (Ecclesiasticus 18, 27)

• There is the person who buys much for little, yet pays for it seven times over. (Ecclesiasticus 20, 12)