Fondare 557 Risultati per: Human Spirit

• Soon as the dawn broke, they engaged; on the one side, all trust in the Lord, valour’s best pledge of victory and fairer times; on the other, naught but human eagerness to inspire courage. (2 Maccabees 10, 28)

• He who oppresses the poor, insults man’s Maker; him if thou wouldst honour, take pity on human need. (Proverbs 14, 31)

• 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)

• What though I be ignorant, beyond human wont? (Proverbs 30, 2)

• 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)

• I thought, too, of human toil and striving; how much it owed to man’s rivalry with his fellows! All was frustration and lost labour here. (Ecclesiastes 4, 4)

• 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)

• 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)