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Patience is a virtue; Pearls of wisdom; Penny wise and pound foolish; Penny, Penny. Makes many. People who live in glass houses should not throw stones; Physician, heal thyself; Play stupid games, win stupid prizes [23] Possession is nine-tenths of the law; Power corrupts; absolute power corrupts absolutely; Practice makes perfect
20. Happiness being a dessert so sweet, May life give you more than you can ever eat. 21. My seven blessings on you. 22. May you live long, Die happy,
The faithful sayings (translated as trustworthy saying in the NIV) are sayings in the pastoral epistles of the New Testament. There are five sayings with this label, and the Greek phrase ( πιστος ὁ λογος ) is the same in all instances, although the KJV uses a different word in 1 Timothy 3:1 .
In Quran there is usually a close connection between being patiently persisting in doing right and expecting relief or deliverance from God . Thus Muhammad is told to be "patient till your Lord decides, for you are in Our sight". [6] [7] "Seek God (Allah)'s help with patient perseverance and prayer. It is indeed hard except for those who are ...
In other words, the gods have ideas different from those of mortals, and so events do not always occur in the way persons wish them to. Cf. Virgil, Aeneid, 2: 428. Also cf. "Man proposes and God disposes" and "My Thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways My ways", Isaiah 55, 8–9.
Based on Jesus' doctrine of the sheep and the goats, the corporal and spiritual works of mercy are a means of grace as good deeds; it is also a work of justice pleasing to God. [6] The precept is an affirmative one, that is, it is of the sort which is always binding but not always operative, for lack of matter or occasion or fitting circumstances.
[39] His overall concern is that "The mind that takes up with images is a mind that has not yet learned to love and attend to God's Word." [40] In other words, image making relies on human sources rather than on divine revelation. Another typical Christian argument for this position might be that God was incarnate as a human being, not as an ...
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