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  • All things come alike to all; there is one event to the righteous, and to the wicked; to the good and to the clean, and to the unclean; to him that sacrificeth, and to him that sacrificeth not.

    Doris Lessing (1999). “Ecclesiastes or, The Preacher”, p.30, Canongate Books
  • A revival almost always begins among the laity. The ecclesiastical leaders seldom welcome reformation. History repeats itself. The present leaders are too comfortably situated as a rule to desire innovation that might require sacrifice on their part. And God's fire only falls on sacrifice. An empty altar receives no fire!

    God   Christian   Fall  
  • All the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea is not full.

    Running   Sea   Rivers  
  • Godly fear, faith, and humility is the true threefold cord that can’t easily be broken (see Ecclesiastes 4:12).

    Humility   Godly   Broken  
    Twitter post from Mar 21, 2014
  • It’s interesting that in the Bible, in the book of Ecclesiastes, the only practical advice given about living a meaningful life is to find a job you like, enjoy your marriage, and obey God. It’s as though God is saying, Write a good story, take somebody with you, and let me help.

    Meaningful   Jobs   Book  
  • Sorrow is better than laughter; for, by the sadness of the countenance, the heart is made better.

    "A new translation of the Proverbs of Solomon, with notes by W. French and G. Skinner".
  • There is nothing new under the sun, not even Manet.

    Jules Breton (1891). “The Life of an Artist: Art and Nature”
  • But how can one be warm alone?

    Joseph Heller (1997). “God Knows”, p.209, Simon and Schuster
  • No Ideas original - there is nothing new under the sun.

    Nas
    Ideas   Old Things   Sun  
    Song: No Idea's Original
  • Ecclesiastes names thee Almighty, the Maccabees name thee Creator, the Epistle to the Ephesians names thee Liberty, Baruch names thee Immensity, the Psalms name thee Wisdom and Truth, John names thee Light, the Book of Kings names thee Lord, Exodus names thee Providence, Leviticus Sanctity, Esdras Justice, creation names thee God, man names thee Father; but Solomon names thee Compassion, which is the most beautiful of all thy names.

    Beautiful   God   Kings  
    Victor Hugo (1980). “Les misérables”, Viking Pr
  • A good name is better than precious ointment.

  • Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man. For God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil.

    Men   Evil   Secret  
    "Ecclesiastes". Book by Solomon , 12:13-14, c. 450-200 BCE.
  • Book of Ecclesiastes, God is saying... Write a good story, take somebody with you and let me help

    Book   Writing   Stories  
  • It has become, in my view, a bit too trendy to regard the acceptance of death as something tantamount to intrinsic dignity. Of course I agree with the preacher of Ecclesiastes that there is a time to love and a time to die - and when my skein runs out I hope to face the end calmly and in my own way. For most situations, however, I prefer the more martial view that death is the ultimate enemy - and I find nothing reproachable in those who rage mightily against the dying of the light.

    Stephen Jay Gould (2010). “Bully for Brontosaurus: Reflections in Natural History”, p.478, W. W. Norton & Company
  • Two are better than one,because they have a good reward for their labor. For if they fall, the one will lif' up his fellow, but woe to him that is alone when he falleth, for he hath not another to help him up.

    John Steinbeck (2016). “The Grapes of Wrath”, p.338, Hamilton Books
  • Ecclesiastes said that "all is vanity," Most modern preachers say the same, or show it By their examples of true Christianity: In short, all know, or very short may know it.

    Vanity   May   Example  
    Lord Byron (1990). “The Sayings of Lord Byron”, p.22, Gerald Duckworth & Co
  • Of making many books there is no end; and much study is a weariness of the flesh.

    Book   Flesh   Study  
  • There is nothing new under the sun.

    Jon Meacham (2012). “Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power”, p.355, Random House
  • There is a time to weep and a time to laugh; a time to mourn and a time to dance.

    Bible   Dance   Biblical  
  • The Ecclesiastes of the Old Testament says there is no new thing under the sun. We can also say there is no new thing above the sun!

  • Even a cursory reading of the book of Ecclesiastes shows that culture is a stationary bike that each generation climbs on in hopes of getting somewhere only to die and fall off so that the new young stud can take his turn peddling and, like a fool, make pronouncements about his progress. We would be wise to see postmodernity as simply the new guy on the old bike and not mistake cultural change for kingdom progress.

    Wise   Mistake   Book  
  • The sun hides not the ocean, which is the dark side of this earth, and which is two thirds of this earth. So, therefore, that mortal man who hath more of joy than sorrow in him, that mortal man cannot be true-- not true, or undeveloped. With books the same. The truest of all men was the Man of Sorrows, and the truest of all books is Solomon’s, and Ecclesiastes is the fine hammered steel of woe.

    Ocean   Book   Dark  
    Herman Melville (2016). “Moby Dick (World Classics, Unabridged)”, p.293, Vij Books India Pvt Ltd
  • In much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.

  • That mortal man who hath more of joy than sorrow in him, that mortal man cannot be true--not true, or undeveloped.

    Men   Joy   Sorrow  
    Herman Melville (2008). “Moby-Dick”, p.473, Velvet Element Books
  • Horror grows impatient, rhetorically, with the Stoic fatalism of Ecclesiastes. That we are all going to die, that death mocks and cancels every one of our acts and attainments and every moment of our life histories, this knowledge is to storytelling what rust is to oxidation; the writer of horror holds with those who favor fire. The horror writer is not content to report on death as the universal system of human weather; he or she chases tornadoes. Horror is Stoicism with a taste for spectacle.

    Fire   Weather   Rust  
  • Curse not the king, no not in thy thought; and curse not the rich in thy bedchamber, for a bird of the air shall carry the voice, and that which hath wings shall tell the matter.

    Bible   Kings   Air  
    Doris Lessing (1999). “Ecclesiastes or, The Preacher”, p.34, Canongate Books
  • In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity consider.

  • What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun

    Done   Sun   Ecclesiastes  
  • The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.

    Done   Sun   Ecclesiastes  
  • As Ecclesiastes tells it, a wholesale devotion to pleasure will, paradoxically, lead to a state of utter despair.

    Philip Yancey (2002). “The Bible Jesus Read: An Eight-session Exploration of the Old Testament Participant's Guide”, p.97, Harper Collins
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