I think," said the Vizier, "that the pretended Cadi showed a wisdom and a judgment that the real Cadi would do well to imitate.
As for you," said he to the Cadi, "you have not shown the wisdom I demand from my judges.
A brief season of prayer, looking above for wisdom and grace and strength, and seeking for an outpouring of the Holy Spirit, helps us to carry our religion into the business of the day.
In asking for temporal blessings, true wisdom lies in putting the matter into the Lord's hand, and leaving it there.
Dost thou want more wisdom than exists in the Father, more love than displays itself in the Son, or more power than is manifest in the influences of the Spirit?
That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Him: the eyes of your understanding being enlightened.
How many troops do you think the wisdom of the Aulic Council had provided to protect the provinces?
Elnathan was a man of many cares, and every kind of wisdom, but one--the wisdom of knowing when he had wealth enough.
As through the church the manifold wisdom of God is made manifest "to principalities and powers in the heavenly places" (Eph.
Yesterday there was not a blade in my field; to-day I returned to my field and found some; who can have given to the earth the wisdom and the power to produce it?
James 3:17--"the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable.
Sir Thomas More went back to the doctrine of transubstantiation which the wisdom of his age was almost unanimous in rejecting.
Though the wicked forfeit all claim to this future, we have here an argument from God's love and wisdom to the immortality of the righteous.
It is morally impossible that Moses should not have known the Egyptian doctrine of immortality: Acts 7:22--"And Moses was instructed in all the wisdom of the Egyptians.
For to one is given through the Spirit the word of wisdom .
Secondly,--as expressing the wisdom of the Lawgiver.
Social progress has followed to a hair's breadth the lines of His gospel; and He lays His hand to-day with heavenly wisdom on the social wants that still trouble us, "the social lies that warp us from the living truth.
But in the hours of silence, the Spirit of Wisdom whispers a secret to our hearts.
The Spirit of Wisdom tells us that we are not to work this way out by logarithms, or evolve it from our own inner consciousness, but to learn what it is by looking at the lives of other men and marking the lessons which they teach us.
These recollections led me to admire that wisdom which had placed them in stations for which they had proved themselves so eminently qualified.
I cannot give my conscience to one as its guide, and adore another for the wisdom of the universe.
These marks of purpose are what they appear to be, tokens of the wisdom of God.
And so in ancient times there were coincidences between the lightning and thunder of Sinai, and the legislative wisdom of Moses--between the fire that fell on Carmel, and the reforming zeal of Elijah.
Is it no sign of the superhuman wisdom of its Founder, that He not only taught the great secret of life; but that He devised means whereby that secret should be guarded and handed on to men?
By personifying Natural Selection Mr. Darwin makes it appear to be a cause, attributes to it a real power, nay, wisdom and providence, as well as power.
It commends itself to men's consciences in the sight of God, and when believed, vindicates the justness and wisdom of such belief.
Whence had this man this wisdom and these mighty works?
No mind has presided over its destinies, has animated its energies; no providence of Divine power and wisdom has guided its changes and progress, has renewed and replenished and sustained it.
But the wisdom that made the laws needs not to revise its work, and erase and insert and amend its code.
What wisdom she had she did not pick off the hedge, like blackberries.
The grain of dust is a thought of God; God's power made it; God's wisdom gave it whatsoever properties or qualities it may possess.
God is too kind to give away wisdom after that useless fashion.
And the attainment of this heavenly wisdom requires neither ecstacy nor revelation, but prayer and watchfulness, and observation, and deep and solemn thought.
The older we grow, the more we understand our own lives and histories, the more we shall see that the spirit of wisdom is the spirit of love; that the true way to gain influence over our fellow-men is to have charity towards them.
In one of the Pahlavi texts it is said that when the Spirit of Wisdom was asked, "Through how many ways and motives and good works do people arrive most at heaven?
Buddhism regards sensuality as altogether incompatible with wisdom and holiness; it is said that "a wise man should avoid married life as if it were a burning pit of live coals.
This disposition is particularly obvious in young children; it is acquired wisdom and experience only that teach incredulity, and, as Adam Smith observes, they very seldom teach it enough.
On the one hand they regarded him as a man of wit and sense, and on the other he seemed to them a maundering blockhead, and they could not make up their minds whereabouts between wisdom and folly they ought to place him.
Heroic resolve of the great Philip the Third, and unparalleled wisdom to have entrusted it to the said Don Bernardino de Velasco!
A war with the Indians above the Hudson Highlands had also given the governor much trouble; but his energy and wisdom had brought it to a close.
It is sometimes difficult to distinguish between fanaticism and the keenest sagacity, and the folly of one age may become the wisdom of a succeeding century.
Mr. Holmes, having sufficiently recovered to realize the wisdom of the course pursued by Stevens, joined him in his entreaties, and they got the captain and some of his crew to make one more effort.
In that book, o'er which Chaldean Wisdom pored and many an eon Of philosophy long dead, This is all that man has read.
Aristotle with all his wisdommight not have done so well.
This young lad," King Loc murmured as he went on his way, "has neither the wisdom nor the wealth.
I have kept Honey-Bee with me to teach her the wisdom of the dwarfs.
Dispassionately, I recognise as much wit as wisdom in the notion.
The Newcastle Guardian, with unconscious irony, proclaimed the golden era; and declared that its columns, even in other days and under other ownership, had upheld the wisdom of Jethro Bass.
It was wisdom such as few lords get from their seneschals, but Isaac D.
Prove your wisdom before you pretend to it, and overvalue it not: Heb.
In the lips of him that hath understanding, wisdom is found.
No power or wisdom in heaven or earth could have delivered us but thine.
Therefore you must study and take unwearied pains for knowledge; wisdom never grew up with idleness, though the conceit of wisdom doth no where more prosper.
The wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, easy to be entreated, full of mercy and good works, without partiality and hypocrisy.
If christianity required no wisdom and skill, it were below men's common trades and callings.
And that the Eternal "Wisdom from above, hath bid you learn of him to be meek and lowly in spirit as ever you would find rest to your souls," Matt.
He is the power of God and the wisdom of God; the true Light that lighteth every man that cometh into the world.
God's ordinary way to give men wisdom according to their time and means, unless their own negligence deprive them of his blessing.
Scene III In the meantime, Tamino, instead of looking for Pamina himself, had been invoking wisdom and help from a number of Genii he had come across.
If he is a soldier, we are likely to get the worst of it"--showing that he had as much wisdom as bravado.
The law of the Lord is unspotted, converting souls: the testimony of the Lord is faithful, giving wisdom to little ones.
They were troubled, and reeled like a drunken man; and all their wisdom was swallowed up.
That is, crafty, subtle, deep projects and designs; which nevertheless shall not succeed; for God shall be exalted in bringing them to nought by his wisdom and power.
For behold thou hast loved truth: the uncertain and hidden things of thy wisdom thou hast made manifest to me.
Great is our Lord, and great is his power: and of his wisdom there is no number.
The wisdom of the policy was agreed in by all, and the schools were reported as doing well, as were their graduates.
Truly I am tempted to say to the men as Job did to his friends: "No doubt but ye are the people, and wisdom shall die with you!
Speech and wisdom give to us, the excellent twain, and healing hands during life.
Give us, your noble children, the glory of wisdom and speech, And the hearts and the hands of healing, and the mouths and hands that teach!
Our wisdom and valour have kissed, and thine eyes shall see the fruit, And the joy for his days that shall be hath pierced my heart to the root.
The particular wisdom of Butler's recommendation lies in the fact that he advocated along with the civil government a material force which would be located "not at fixed points or forts.
There was wisdom in all this, for to teach people to enjoy proper recreation and play is to make them better citizens and more cordial one to the other.
War echoes are heard during that period, but for the most part alien enemies soon recognized the wisdom of pursuing their work quietly, and in such cases they were not molested.
And the other special point in which Butler's wisdom in recommendation comes out in regard to the force to be established is where he states that such a force should be independent of any faction or party either in church or state.
There is little wisdom in knowing that every man must be up and doing, and that all mankind are made dependent on one another.
