Fondare 36 Risultati per: Poverty
Grow he rich, the poor man shall boast indeed; that other, grow he poor, has good cause to fear his poverty. (Ecclesiasticus 10, 34)
And others are backward folk, that cannot hold their gains, men of little power and much poverty; (Ecclesiasticus 11, 12)
From God all comes, good fortune and ill, life and death, poverty and riches; (Ecclesiasticus 11, 14)
wealth hates poverty, as the proud heart scorns humble rank. (Ecclesiasticus 13, 24)
Yet, where there is no sin to smite a man’s conscience, a full purse is a blessing, and poverty itself is a great evil when it goes with a blasphemer’s tongue.✻ (Ecclesiasticus 13, 30)
fit punishment for his poverty of soul that never did good except by oversight, and to his manifest remorse! (Ecclesiasticus 14, 7)
When all abounds, bethink thee of evil times; of pinching poverty, when thou hast wealth in store. (Ecclesiasticus 18, 25)
The sieve shaken, nothing is left but refuse; so thou wilt find a man’s poverty in his thought.✻ (Ecclesiasticus 27, 5)
Poverty, on a fool’s lips, will pass for a thing desirable; but trust me, he has a fire raging within. (Ecclesiasticus 40, 32)
how well they have stood the test of distress, how abundantly they have rejoiced over it, how abject is their poverty, and how the crown of all this has been a rich measure of generosity in them.✻ (2 Corinthians 8, 2)
(You do not need to be reminded how gracious our Lord Jesus Christ was; how he impoverished himself for your sakes, when he was so rich, so that you might become rich through his poverty), (2 Corinthians 8, 9)
I know how sorely tried thou art, how stricken with poverty (yet, all the while, so rich); how thy name is traduced by men who claim to be Jews (though they are no true Jews; they are rather the chosen people of Satan). (Revelation 2, 9)
