English Proverbs
English Proverbs
government church emperor
The emperor is in the Church, not about the Church.
people dialectics
It was not by dialectic that it pleased God to save His people.
prayer angel ifs
But if these beings guard you, they do so because they have been summoned by your prayers.
soul world body
Let us take refuge from this world. You can do this in spirit, even if you are kept here in the body. You can at the same time be here and present to the Lord. Your soul must hold fast to him, you must follow after him in your thoughts, you must tread his ways by faith, not in outward show.
prayer men names
Stephen prayed for his persecutors, who had not been able even to listen to the Name of Christ, when he said of those very men by whom he was being stoned: "Lord, lay not this sin to their charge" And we see the result of this prayer in the case of the Apostle, for Paul, who kept the garments of those who were stoning Stephen, not long after became an apostle by the grace of God, having before been a persecutor.
love life relationship
To be content, to find true love, is what essentially drives us all, but if found, would it be recognized?
wise wisdom looks
It is easier to look wise than to talk wisely.
catholic novelty predecessors
We do not innovate anything ... How is it that novelties are introduced which were never even thought of by our predecessors?
travel rome elsewhere
When in Rome, live as the Romans do. When elsewhere, live as they live elsewhere.
wise eye men
The wise man does nothing but what can be done openly and without falseness, nor does he do anything whereby he may involve himself in any wrong-doing, even where he may escape notice. For he is guilty in his own eyes before being so in the eyes of others; and the publicity of his crime does not bring him more shame than his own consciousness of it.
law gambling justice
Dice have their laws, which the courts of justice cannot undo.
rome style elsewhere
If you are at Rome live in the Roman style; if you are elsewhere live as they live elsewhere.
love life relationship
Love is like a shadow, one can only catch it by falling into it.
honesty clothes simplicity
The body should be bedecked naturally and without affectation, with simplicity, with neglect rather than nicety, not with costly and dazzling apparel, but with ordinary clothes, so that nothing be lacking to honesty and necessity, yet nothing be added to increase its beauty.