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Letter "T" » tumults
«In seasons of tumult and discord bad men have the most power; mental and moral excellence require peace and quietness.»
Author: Publius Cornelius Tacitus
| About:
Peace
| Keywords:
discord, moral excellence, quietness, seasons, tumult, tumults
«And slay them (the infidels) wherever you catch them, and turn them out from where they have turned you out, for tumult and oppression are worse than slaughter»
Author: quran
| Keywords:
infidels, slaughter, slaughtered, slaughtering, slay, The Infidels, tumult, tumults
«And fight them on until there is no more tumult or oppressions, and there prevail justice and Faith in Allah; but if they cease, let there be no hostility except to those who practice oppression»
«And the king said, Is the young man Absalom safe? And Ahimaaz answered, When Joab sent the king's servant, and me thy servant, I saw a great tumult, but I knew not what it was.»
«For I fear, lest, when I come, I shall not find you such as I would, and that I shall be found unto you such as ye would not: lest there be debates, envyings, wraths, strifes, backbitings, whisperings, swellings, tumults: / And lest, when I come again, my God will humble me among you, and that I shall bewail many which have sinned already, and have not repented of the uncleanness and fornication and lasciviousness which they have committed.»
Author: Bible
| Keywords:
bewail, bewailed, debates, fornication, lasciviousness, repented, sinned, swellings, tumults, uncleanness, whisperings
«(For he saith, I have heard thee in a time accepted, and in the day of salvation have I succoured thee: behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation.) / Giving no offence in any thing, that the ministry be not blamed: / But in all things approving ourselves as the ministers of God, in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses, / In stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labours, in watchings, in fastings; / By pureness, by knowledge, by longsuffering, by kindness, by the Holy Ghost, by love unfeigned, / By the word of truth, by the power of God, by the armour of righteousness on the right hand and on the left, / By honour and dishonour, by evil report and good report: as deceivers, and yet true; / As unknown, and yet well known; as dying, and, behold, we live; as chastened, and not killed; / As sorrowful, yet alway rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing all things.»
Author: Bible
| Keywords:
afflictions, approving, armour, Armour of God, blamed, chastened, deceivers, dishonour, longsuffering, ministers, ministry, necessities, offence, pureness, rejoicing, right hand, sorrowful, stripes, tumults, unfeigned, well known
«By terrible things in righteousness wilt thou answer us, O God of our salvation; who art the confidence of all the ends of the earth, and of them that are afar off upon the sea: / Which by his strength setteth fast the mountains; being girded with power: / Which stilleth the noise of the seas, the noise of their waves, and the tumult of the people.»
«For, lo, thine enemies make a tumult: and they that hate thee have lifted up the head.»
«In the tumult of men and events, solitude was my temptation; now it is my friend. What other satisfaction can be sought once you have confronted History?»
«A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it the superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes more converts than reason.»
Author: Thomas Paine
(Writer)
| About:
Habit,
Thinking
| Keywords:
appearance, at first, converts, custom, defense, first appearance, formidable, outcry, raises, subside, subsides, subsiding, superficial, tumult, tumults
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