405 quotes found
“How my adventures become your sins?”
“Go thy way, weigh me the weight of the fire, or measure me the blast of the wind, or call me again the day that is past.”
“What man is able to do that, that thou should ask such things of me?”
“If I should ask thee how great dwellings are in the midst of the sea, or how many springs are in the beginning of the deep, or how many springs are above the firmament, or which are the outgoings o...”
“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 ...”
“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 u...”
“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.”
“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 floo...”
“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?”
“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...”
“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.”
“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-”
“The world hast fast to pass away- And cannot comprehend the things that are promised to the righteous in time to come: for this world is full of unrighteousness and infirmities.”
“As concerning the things whereof thou asked me, I will tell thee; for the evil is sown, but the destruction thereof is not yet come.”
