Fondare 31 Risultati per: Piety

• The fear of the Lord lends wisdom that piety which is hers; (Ecclesiasticus 1, 17)

• such piety as shall keep the heart safe and make it acceptable, bring it joy and content. (Ecclesiasticus 1, 18)

• True insight wisdom has in her treasure-house, and the piety that comes of knowledge; no wonder if sinners hate the name of her. (Ecclesiasticus 1, 26)

• and still sinners hate the name of piety. (Ecclesiasticus 1, 32)

• Some men’s lives are all toil and haste and anxiety; yet the more they toil, the less advantage they win, for want of piety. (Ecclesiasticus 11, 11)

• Evil matched with good, life matched with death, sinner matched with man of piety; so everywhere in God’s works thou wilt find pairs matched, one against the other. (Ecclesiasticus 33, 15)

• scoffer about piety, rogue about honesty, farm labourer about work to be done, (Ecclesiasticus 37, 13)

• there are times when a man of piety sees truth clearer than seven sentinels high in a watch-tower. (Ecclesiasticus 37, 18)

• how true he kept his heart to the Lord’s bidding, what comfort he gave to piety, when wickedness abounded! (Ecclesiasticus 49, 4)

• One shall be born, on whom the spirit of the Lord will rest; a spirit wise and discerning, a spirit prudent and strong, a spirit of knowledge and of piety,✻ (Isaiah 11, 2)

• and the name by which he will call thee for ever is, Loyalty rewarded, Piety crowned.✻ (Baruch 5, 4)

• Fled is piety, vanished honesty, from human kind; murderous plots afoot; the hunt is up everywhere, man spreading his nets for man. (Micah 7, 2)