All Quotes By Tag: Peace
“How, and when shall these things come to pass? wherefore are our years few and evil?”
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“Do not thou hasten above the most Highest: for thy haste is in vain to be above him, for thou hast much exceeded.”
“Did not the souls also of the righteous ask question of these things in their chambers, saying, “How long shall I hope on this fashion?” when cometh the fruit of the floor of our reward?”
“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.”
“Wherefore the present age is given up as a reproach to the heathen, and for what cause the people whom thou hast loved is given over unto ungodly nations?!”
“Why the law of our forefathers are brought to nought, and the written covenants come to none effect-”
“We pass away out of the world as grasshoppers, and our life is astonishment and fear, and we are not worthy to obtain mercy.”
“What will he then do unto his name whereby we are called? …of these things have I asked.”
“What man is able to do that, that thou should ask such things of me?”
“I went into a forest into a plain, and the trees took counsel- And said, Come, let us go and make war against the sea that it may depart away before us, and that we may make us more woods. The floods of the sea also in like manner took counsel, and said, Come, let us go up and subdue the woods of the plain, that there also we may make us another country. The thought of the wood was in vain, for the fire came and consumed it. The thought of the floods of the sea came likewise to nought, for the sand stood up and stopped them. If thou wart judge now betwixt these two, whom would thou begin to justify? or whom would thou condemn?”
“Verily it is a foolish thought that they both have devised, for the ground is given unto the wood, and the sea also had its place to bear its floods.”
“Thou hast given a right judgment, but why judge thou not thyself also?”
“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-”