Fondare 1009 Risultati per: Holy Days
Never a blessing for sinners; never be it said they lived out their full span of days! Reckless of God’s frown, see, they pass like a shadow, and are gone! (Ecclesiastes 8, 13)
live at ease with the wife that is thy heart’s love, long as this uncertain life is granted thee; fugitive days, here beneath the sun. Live thou and labour thou under the sun as thou wilt, this thy portion shall be, and nothing more. (Ecclesiastes 9, 9)
Only be thy years never so many, never so happy, do not forget the dark days that are coming, the long days, when frustration will be the end of it all. (Ecclesiastes 11, 8)
Do not forget thy Maker, now, while youth lasts; now, while the evil days are still far off, the years that pass unwelcomed. (Ecclesiastes 12, 1)
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 curse lies on their begetting. Blessed, rather, her lot, that childless is, yet chaste, that never knew the bed of shame; offspring she will not lack, when holy souls have their reward. (Wisdom of Solomon 3, 13)
Nay, let there be some eunuch that has kept his hands clear of wrong, has never harboured treasonable thought against the Lord; he too with rare gifts shall be faithfully rewarded, shall have the portion that most contents him in God’s holy place.✻ (Wisdom of Solomon 3, 14)
and now they are reckoned as God’s own children, now it is among his holy ones that their lot is cast.✻ (Wisdom of Solomon 5, 5)
How glorious is that kingdom, how beautiful that crown, which the Lord will bestow on them! His right hand is there to protect them, his holy arm to be their shield. (Wisdom of Solomon 5, 17)
He that would find soul’s health, holy must be and hallowed precepts observe; master these he must, if he would make good his defence. (Wisdom of Solomon 6, 11)
Alone, with none to aid her, she is all-powerful; herself ever unchanged, she makes all things new; age after age she finds her way into holy men’s hearts, turning them into friends and spokesmen of God. (Wisdom of Solomon 7, 27)
More than this, thou hast bidden me raise thee temple and altar, upon this mountain, in the holy city where thou dwellest, model of that holy tabernacle, made long ago, whose pattern was of thy own devising.✻ (Wisdom of Solomon 9, 8)
