All Quotes By Tag: Funny
“Thou hast given a right judgment, but why judge thou not thyself also?”
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“For like as the ground is given unto the wood, and the sea to his floods: even so they that dwell upon the earth may understand nothing but that which is upon the earth: and he that dwell above the heavens may only understand the things that are above the height of the heavens.”
“I beseech thee, O Lord, let me have understanding: For it was not my mind to be curious of the high things, but of such as pass by us daily.”
“The more thou search, the more thou shall marvel.”
“The more thou search, the more thou shall marvel; for the world hast fast to pass away-”
“Nevertheless now have I asked thee but only of the fire and wind, and of the day where-through thou hast passed, and of things from which thou canst not be separated, and yet canst thou give me no answer of them.”
“Thine own things, and such as are grown up with thee, canst thou not know; How should thy vessel then be able to comprehend the way of the Highest, and, the world being now outwardly corrupted to understand the corruption that is evident in my sight?”
“It were better that we were not at all, than that we should live still in wickedness, and to suffer, and not to know wherefore.”
“Consider with thyself; as the rain is more than the drops, and as the fire is greater than the smoke; but the drops and the smoke remain behind: so the quantity which is past did more exceed.”
“Like as a young child may not bring forth the things that belong to the aged, even so have I disposed the world which I created.”
“The creature may not haste above the maker; neither may the world hold them at once that shall be created therein.”
“As thou hast said unto thy servant, that thou, which gives life to all, hast given life at once to the creature that thou hast created, and the creature bare it: even so it might now also bear them that now be present at once.”
“Ask the womb of a woman, and say unto her, If thou bring forth children, why dost thou it not together, but one after another? pray her therefore to bring forth ten children at once.”
“You do not love me; you love my success!”
“O Lord that bear rule, who may know these things, but he that had not his dwelling with men?”