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Suffer fools gladly is a phrase in contemporary use, first coined by Saint Paul in his second letter to the Church at Corinth . The full verse of the original source of the idiom, 2 Corinthians 11:19 ( KJV ), reads "For ye suffer fools gladly, seeing ye yourselves are wise."
Do not try to walk before you can crawl; Do not upset the apple-cart; Do not wash your dirty linen in public; Do not sympathize with those who can not empathize; Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. Often referred to as the Golden Rule; Doubt is the beginning, not the end, of wisdom
This parable compares building one's life on the teachings and example of Jesus to a flood-resistant building founded on solid rock. The Parable of the Wise and the Foolish Builders (also known as the House on the Rock), is a parable of Jesus from the Sermon on the Mount in the Gospel of Matthew as well as in the Sermon on the Plain in the Gospel of Luke ().
Etching by Jan Luyken illustrating the parable, from the Bowyer Bible.. The Parable of the Faithful Servant (or Parable of the Door Keeper) is a parable of Jesus found in Matthew 24:42-51, Mark 13:34-37, and Luke 12:35-48 about how it is important for the faithful to keep watch.
Gregory the Great: "He says not 'to the foolish', but to babes, showing that He condemns pride, not understanding." [4] Chrysostom: "Or when He says, The wise, He does not speak of true wisdom, but of that which the Scribes and Pharisees seemed to have by their speech. Wherefore He said not, ‘And hast revealed them to the foolish,’ but, to ...
Warren Buffett, the CEO and chairman of Berkshire Hathaway, shared more than just financial details in the company's annual shareholder letter.
The Paradoxa Stoicorum (English: Stoic Paradoxes) is a work by the academic skeptic philosopher Cicero in which he attempts to explain six famous Stoic sayings that appear to go against common understanding: (1) virtue is the sole good; (2) virtue is the sole requisite for happiness; (3) all good deeds are equally virtuous and all bad deeds equally vicious; (4) all fools are mad; (5) only the ...
The second of five storms that will slam the eastern half of the United States with snow and ice over a two week period is on the way – and this one has more snow than the first.