 | C. T - 1847 - 316 Seiten
...healing divisions, softening bad tempers, and removing discord among human beings. How true it is that " a soft answer turneth away wrath, but grievous words stir up anger!" (Prov. xv. 1.) Many a quarrel might be avoided, if people could only be persuaded to give the "soft... | |
 | 1869 - 424 Seiten
...horror« of the battle-field. It is just as true in the intercourse of nations as of individuals, that, "a soft answer turneth away wrath, but grievous words stir up anger." There can be no doubt, that the prevailing practice of nations, in settling their disputes by an appeal... | |
 | 1848 - 642 Seiten
...boy answered, " Those who give soft answers to rough questions." This accords with what Solomon says. A soft answer turneth away wrath, but grievous words stir up anger." " Then deem it not an id\»> tiling. A pleasant word to uptMk ; The face you wear, the thought* you... | |
 | William Abiah Newman - 1848 - 318 Seiten
...Hence, probably, there are few truths more important to remember for our domestic peace, than that "A soft answer turneth away wrath: but grievous words stir up anger." Amongst the duties of Christian wives, the Apostle Peter instances, as almost embracing in it every... | |
 | Walter John Trower (bp. of Gibraltar.) - 1848 - 116 Seiten
...cannot but see that our words have great power over the passions of most people whom we meet with. " A soft answer turneth away wrath : but grievous words stir up anger 3 ." " A word spoken in season, how good is it *! " But what we are perhaps less prepared to acknowledge... | |
 | Adin Ballou - 1848 - 196 Seiten
...manner, he would ultimately be entirely cured of the bad humour about his tongue. So true is it that " A soft answer turneth away wrath; but grievous words stir up anger." These familiar workings of this law of nature ought to open the most unwilling eyes to the fact, that... | |
 | William Euen - 1848 - 164 Seiten
...man leaveth an inheritance to his children, and the wealth of the-sinner is laid up for the just. 22. A soft answer turneth away wrath, but grievous words stir up anger. 21. The poor is hated even of his own neighbors, but the rich hath many friends. 23. Without counsel... | |
 | W. H. Woodbury - 1849 - 234 Seiten
...in the Bible," said Mr. Truemann, "a passage peculiarly applicable to the present case. It is this : "A soft answer turneth away wrath, but grievous words stir up anger" J. I have found this precept, in a life that has numbered more than double your years, to be 2 one... | |
 | 1849 - 398 Seiten
...answered, " Those who give soft answers to rough questions." This agrees with what Solomon says : '' A soft answer turneth away wrath; but grievous words stir up anger." A ROSY CHILD WENT FORTH TO PLAY. A EOSV child went forth to play, In the first flush of hope and pride,... | |
 | 1882 - 400 Seiten
...contradict and vex him. If he is cross and pettish and hard to please, speak kindly and cheerfully to him. ' A soft answer turneth away wrath; but grievous words stir up anger.' When you feel your own anger rising, keep silence. A wise old sage used to say,' If you are angry,... | |
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Would that there were more to join in this, as truly wise as it is truly pious, sentiment! What have Christian men to do with calling down fire from heaven ? When was conversion ever effected by compulsion ? Or what was it worth when effected ? "A soft... 
