Biblical Sayings

26 sayings found from the Ancient era from 26 authors

Notwithstanding she shall be saved in childbearing, if they continue in faith and charity and holiness with sobriety.

— Saint Paul c. 62-64 CE
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When the great Tao is abandoned, there is humanity and righteousness. When wisdom and intelligence appear, there is great hypocrisy.

— Laozi c. 6th-4th century BCE
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Aša Vahišta (Best Righteousness) is the best of all things, and happiness is to him who is righteous for the sake of Righteousness.

— Zoroaster c. 1500-1000 BCE
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The laws of nature are but the mathematical thoughts of God.

— Euclid Uncertain (misattributed)
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Time is the soul of this world.

— Pythagoras c. 570-495 BCE (attributed 1st-2nd century CE)
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The soul is the same in all living creatures, although the body of each is different.

— Hippocrates c. 460-370 BCE
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People condemned to the games or the mines should be branded in the hands or calves, not the face, which is formed in the image of the heavenly Son.

— Constantine the Great c. 314 CE
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Uncontrollable laughter arose among the blessed gods.

— Homer c. 8th Century BCE
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Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule.

— Siddhartha Gautama (Buddha) c. 5th century BCE
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Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one.

— Moses c. 13th-15th century BCE (traditional dating)
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To worship ancestors whom one does not know is to be presumptuous.

— Confucius c. 5th century BCE
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The greatest mistake of a soul is non-recognition of its real self and can only be corrected by recognizing the real self.

— Mahavira circa 5th-6th century BCE
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I am not a prophet, nor the son of a prophet, but the Lord hath sent me unto thee.

— Abraham 1835
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You cheer my heart, building as though Rome will be eternal.

— Augustus Caesar
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The pleasure of the soul is superior to that of the body.

— Epicurus c. 300 BCE
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Every soul, the philosopher says, is unwillingly deprived of truth.

— Marcus Aurelius c. 161-180 AD
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You are not your body, you are a soul.

— Epictetus c. 108 AD
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It is by the training of the body that the soul is purified.

— Diogenes c. 350 BCE
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The mind of the sage is tranquil. It is a mirror of heaven and earth, a looking glass for all creation.

— Zhuangzi c. 4th century BCE
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He who exerts his mind to the utmost knows his nature. Knowing his nature, he knows Heaven.

— Mencius c. 4th-3rd century BCE
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