Proverbs
Proverbs
A proverb is a simple and concrete statement popularly known and repeated, that expresses a truth based on common sense or experience...
rome
When you are at Rome, live as Romans live.
humble humility opportunity
If someone offends you, don't tell anyone about it except your elder, and you will be peaceful. Bow to everyone, paying no attention whether they respond to your bow or not. You must humble yourself before everyone and consider yourself the worst of all. If we have not committed the sins that others have, perhaps this is because we did not have the opportunity - the situation and circumstances were different. In each person there is something good and something bad; we usually see only the vices in people and we see nothing that is good.
learning past
There is no time of life past learning something.
father son desire
As a servant desireth the approval of his master, and a son the approval of his father, so should we desire the approval of God and our own conscience.
spiritual inspiration illumination
The prime objective of all Initiatory music in the Temples of Antiquity was to bring about physical purification and renewal, mental stimulation and alertness, spiritual exhilaration and Illumination.
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.