Hounslow West Evangelical ChurchWisdom, like an inheritance, is a good thing and benefits those who see the sun.Wisdom is a shelter as money is a shelter,but the advantage of knowledge is this: wisdom preserves those who have it. Consider what God has done: who can straighten what he has made crooked?When times are good, be happy; but when times are bad, consider this:God […]
Extortion turns a wise person into a fool, and a bribe corrupts the heart. The end of a matter is better than its beginning, and patience is better than pride.Do not be quickly provoked in your spirit, for anger resides in the lap of fools. Do not say, ‘Why were the old days better than these?’ For it is […]
A good name is better than fine perfume, and the day of death better than the day of birth.It is better to go to a house of mourning than to go to a house of feasting,for death is the destiny of everyone; the living should take this to heart.Frustration is better than laughter, because a sad face is good […]
A good name is better than fine perfume, and the day of death better than the day of birth.It is better to go to a house of mourning than to go to a house of feasting,for death is the destiny of everyone; the living should take this to heart.Frustration is better than laughter, because a sad face is good […]
I have seen another evil under the sun, and it weighs heavily on mankind: God gives some people wealth, possessions and honour, so that they lack nothing their hearts desire, but God does not grant them the ability to enjoy them, and strangers enjoy them instead. This is meaningless, a grievous evil. A man may have […]
If you see the poor oppressed in a district, and justice and rights denied, do not be surprised at such things; for one official is eyed by a higher one, and over them both are others higher still. The increase from the land is taken by all; the king himself profits from the fields. Whoever loves […]
Guard your steps when you go to the house of God. Go near to listen rather than to offer the sacrifice of fools, who do not know that they do wrong. Do not be quick with your mouth, do not be hasty in your heart to utter anything before God.God is in heaven and you are on earth, so […]
Guard your steps when you go to the house of God. Go near to listen rather than to offer the sacrifice of fools, who do not know that they do wrong. Do not be quick with your mouth, do not be hasty in your heart to utter anything before God.God is in heaven and you are on earth, so […]
Again I looked and saw all the oppression that was taking place under the sun: I saw the tears of the oppressed – and they have no comforter;power was on the side of their oppressors – and they have no comforter.And I declared that the dead, who had already died,are happier than the living, who are still alive.But better than both is […]
And I saw that all toil and all achievement spring from one person’s envy of another. This too is meaningless, a chasing after the wind. Fools fold their hands and ruin themselves.Better one handful with tranquillity than two handfuls with toil and chasing after the wind. Again I saw something meaningless under the sun: there was a man […]