Sentences with phrase «great wise men»

It doesn't change the message he left behind of love and forgiveness, there have been many great wise men throughout the world and history not all of them were perfect and Jesus lived as a man among us I am sure he made mistakes and learned what was important to teach his followers what really mattered.

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A wise Jesuit (pardon the redundancy) once told me that great men are diminished once they begin to believe their own press.

«A wise man ought always to follow the paths beaten by great men, and to imitate those who have been supreme, so that...

But the greater obstacle for the wise men was, well, their wisdom: or, perhaps better, the intellectual pride that's a constant temptation for people who live their professional lives inside their heads.

Friends, brothers, wise men: have we not many of these around us, great souls, chosen souls, and much closer to us?

Some of the most Godly men and women I've ever known have not been Calvinists and they are wise and great examples that I look up to.

This is why in the Bible, when Herod the Great hears the wise men talking about a star they will follow that will lead them to «the King of the Jews» he orders all the boys under the age of 2 in Bethlehem to be murdered.

A wise man has said that «the great ages.

The great convictions were of the reality and immediacy of a God of righteousness and love, and the unparalleled conceptions of the exalted nature of man and his duty under God — or in terms more congenial to the modes of thought of the wise men, conduct that best fulfills and expresses his high being.

He to whom Jesus is only a man — were he ever so exalted, pious, noble, wise, the greatest of all religious founders and saints — does not have this God.

God destines all Kings, Senators, the powerful of the earth, rich, poor, free men, slaves, great and small, wise and foolish to death and after death to Judgment.

I had a wise man calmly explain to me the concept of a power greater than myself.

I should like to make it plain at this point that I am not saying that there do not exist within the great world religions true, honest, wise and good men.

Or consider the great uproar over Susan Patton's open letter to female Princeton undergraduates warning them that they'd be wise to land a good man while in college, because our culture has otherwise made such a hash of the mating game.

Yet it will be apparent that, however attractive such views may have proved for the philosophic temper of the wise men, the great mass of Israel's thought, if we may judge by the prominence given it in the literature, was based on the conviction that the source of ethics was in the nature and will of God.

«Had Man's body,» says Dr. Derham, «been made according to any of the Atheistical Schemes, or any other Method than that of the infinite Lord of the World, this wise Variety would never have been: but Men's Faces would have been cast in the same, or not a very different Mould, their Organs of Speech would have sounded the same or not so great a Variety of Notes; and the same Structure of Muscles and Nerves would have given the Hand the same Direction in Writing.

The great mountain must crumble; The strong beam must break; And the wise man wither away like a plant.

Roberto Mancini obviously has one of the safest pair of hands in the Premier League in the form of Joe Hart but arguably not a great deal of talented back - ups keeping the England man on his toes, so a move for Jack Butland could be a wise one to consider.

The father of a righteous child young man has great joy; a man who fathers a wise son rejoices in him.

This aristocratic tradition of republicanism understands the greatest threat to liberty to be posed by the ignorant, jealous and capricious common citizens of republics rather than the wise, prudent and virtuous (read, rich) «best men» of such republics.

My father was a wise man with a tremendous appetite for life, an insatiable curiosity about how the world works, and a great aptitude for teaching.

A wise old man once told me that «the greatest investment that you can ever make is in yourself.»

«The wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings.

My hubby is such a great sport though and really pretty much just goes with the flow with everything I do decor wise... got ta love a good man like that!!

Strong, independent, unselfish, survivor, wise man, intelligent, amazingly loving and a great kisser!!

Now, a lot of the performances don't help a sense of melodrama, for a number of supporting performances fall flat, but the leads nevertheless deliver as best they can, whether it be Victor Mature as a struggling, but wise slave who holds passion and fury over the demise of a great man, or leading man Richard Burton as a militant man of admiration, love, and guilt, which Burton sells through an impassioned and layered performance.

Re-imagining the 1984 classic with female leads (especially one made up of today's funniest women: Kristen Wiig, Melissa McCarthy, Kate McKinnon, and Leslie Jones), directed by a man who not only makes hilarious films but seems to innately understand the unique humor women afford to film, Paul Feig, is not only a great indicator that Hollywood might finally be wising up that we need less Get Hard and more Spy and Bridesmaids.

By the same token, Nolan is nearly as adept at Tarantino at scripting plum comeback roles for great character actors long off of mainstream Hollywood's radar: Eric Roberts in The Dark Knight, Tom Berenger in Inception, and now Tom Conti, a 1984 Oscar nominee for the unduly forgotten Reuben, Reuben, here playing a wise old man in a faraway prison who, at Bruce Wayne's lowest moment, nurses him back to fighting form.

I tried to ease up on myself, remembering Pip's resolution in Great Expectations: «But how could I, a poor dazed village lad, avoid that wonderful inconsistency into which the best and wisest of men fall every day?»

A salesman from Ashland, Alabama, who, by his own confession, just wanted to be a great man, Edward is revealed in a series of amusing, backward glances as a man quick with a rib - splitting joke as well as full of wise if improbable tales of his heroic past that blend into the mythic, even fairy - tale - like material of transcendence.

Now, as we face such troubled and uncertain times, the need has never been greater for this extraordinary man's compassionate thoughts and wise words.

From that time forth he believed that the wise man is one who never sets himself apart from other living things, whether they have speech or not, and in later years he strove long to learn what can be learned, in silence, from the eyes of animals, the flight of birds, the great slow gestures of trees.

A wise man once said that nothing feels as good as playing a great game and while this might be completely made up we're pretty sure not many things come close.

I like to get my inspiration from really meaningful phrases said by truly great people like “That man is wisest who, like Socrates, realizes that his wisdom is worthless”, do you know where I can find thematic compiltaions of those?