Fondare 165 Risultati per: Soul
And this was the last sigh he uttered, as he lay there dying under the lash, Lord, in thy holy wisdom this thou well knowest; I might have had life if I would, yet never a cruel pang my body endures, but my soul suffers it gladly for thy reverence. (2 Maccabees 6, 30)
As my brethren, so I for our country’s laws both soul and body forfeit; my prayer is, God will early relent towards this nation, while thou dost learn, under the lash of his torments, that he alone is God. (2 Maccabees 7, 37)
And Judas? Not for nothing had he devoted body and soul, this long while, to the service of his fellow countrymen! Nicanor’s head, and one of his arms cut off from the shoulder downwards, he bade them carry to Jerusalem; (2 Maccabees 15, 30)
Guard thy tongue, guard thy soul; thoughtless speech may bring ruin. (Proverbs 13, 3)
He holds his life cheap, that will not listen to a warning; heed reproof, and be master of thy soul. (Proverbs 15, 32)
but wise teaching is no less thy soul’s food, tomorrow’s resource, and a resource unfailing. (Proverbs 24, 14)
Beware, then, of whispering, and to ill purpose; ever let your tongues refrain from calumny. Think not that the secret word goes for nought; lying lips were ever the soul’s destroying. (Wisdom of Solomon 1, 11)
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)
Ever the soul is weighed down by a mortal body, earth-bound cell that clogs the manifold activity of its thought. (Wisdom of Solomon 9, 15)
those five cities whose shame is yet unforgotten, while smoke issues from the barren soil, and never tree bears seasonable fruit, and the pillar of salt stands monument to an unbelieving soul. (Wisdom of Solomon 10, 7)
To know thee as thou art, is the soul’s full health; to have proof of thy power, is the root whence springs immortality. (Wisdom of Solomon 15, 3)
But very ill is that toil bestowed, when he uses the same clay to fashion some god that is no god. Bethink thee, potter, that it is but a little while since thou thyself wast fashioned out of the same earth, and ere long, when the lease of thy soul falls due, to that earth thou shalt return. (Wisdom of Solomon 15, 8)
