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140 best Irish blessings for St. Patrick's Day. It's normal to hear various "season's greetings" around the holidays, and different types of "best wishes" and congratulatory statements when ...
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
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 humble." (2:45) "O you who believe! Seek help with patient perseverance and prayer, for God is with those who patiently persevere." (2:153)
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. dis manibus sacrum (D.M.S.) Sacred to the ghost-gods
These wise sayings of men of former times, the words of famous men, are consecrated at holy Pytho; from there Klearchos [c] copied them carefully, to set them up, shining afar, in the precinct of Kineas. When a child, show yourself well-behaved; When a young man, self controlled; In middle age, just; As an old man, a good counsellor;
glory to God alone: A motto of the Protestant Reformation and one of the five solas, referring to the idea that God is the creator of all good things and deserves all the praise for them. Johann Sebastian Bach often signed his manuscripts with the abbreviation S.D.G. to invoke this phrase, as well as with AMDG (ad maiorem Dei gloriam).
And consider that fate does not send the greatest portion of these misfortunes to good men. There are many sorts of reasonings among men, good and bad; Do not admire them too easily, nor reject them. But if falsehoods are advanced, hear them with mildness, and arm yourself with patience. Observe well, on every occasion, what I am going to tell ...
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 .