Amelia Gillen's Highlights
Amelia Gillen
highlighted Ecclesiastes 10:12 ESV
The words of a wise man's mouth win him favor, but the lips of a fool consume him.
Sep 17
Amelia Gillen
highlighted Ecclesiastes 10:10 ESV
If the iron is blunt, and one does not sharpen the edge, he must use more strength, but wisdom helps one to succeed.
Sep 17
Amelia Gillen
highlighted Ecclesiastes 10:7 ESV
I have seen slaves on horses, and princes walking on the ground like slaves.
Sep 17
Amelia Gillen
highlighted Ecclesiastes 10:4 ESV
If the anger of the ruler rises against you, do not leave your place, for calmness will lay great offenses to rest.
Sep 17
Amelia Gillen
highlighted Ecclesiastes 9:18 ESV
Wisdom is better than weapons of war, but one sinner destroys much good.
Sep 16
Amelia Gillen
highlighted Ecclesiastes 9:17 ESV
The words of the wise heard in quiet are better than the shouting of a ruler among fools.
Sep 16
Amelia Gillen
highlighted Ecclesiastes 9:9 ESV
Enjoy life with the wife whom you love, all the days of your vain life that he has given you under the sun, because that is your portion in life and in your toil at which you toil under the sun.
Sep 16
Amelia Gillen
highlighted Ecclesiastes 9:7 ESV
Go, eat your bread with joy, and drink your wine with a merry heart, for God has already approved what you do.
Sep 16
Amelia Gillen
highlighted Ecclesiastes 9:8 ESV
Let your garments be always white. Let not oil be lacking on your head.
Sep 16
Amelia Gillen
highlighted Ecclesiastes 9:6 ESV
Their love and their hate and their envy have already perished, and forever they have no more share in all that is done under the sun.
Sep 16
Amelia Gillen
highlighted Ecclesiastes 9:5 ESV
For the living know that they will die, but the dead know nothing, and they have no more reward, for the memory of them is forgotten.
Sep 16
Amelia Gillen
highlighted Ecclesiastes 8:17 ESV
then I saw all the work of God, that man cannot find out the work that is done under the sun. However much man may toil in seeking, he will not find it out. Even though a wise man claims to know, he cannot find it out.
Sep 16
Amelia Gillen
highlighted Ecclesiastes 8:16 ESV
When I applied my heart to know wisdom, and to see the business that is done on earth, how neither day nor night do one's eyes see sleep,
Sep 16
Amelia Gillen
highlighted Ecclesiastes 8:14 ESV
There is a vanity that takes place on earth, that there are righteous people to whom it happens according to the deeds of the wicked, and there are wicked people to whom it happens according to the deeds of the righteous. I said that this also is vanity.
Sep 16
Amelia Gillen
highlighted Ecclesiastes 8:11 ESV
Because the sentence against an evil deed is not executed speedily, the heart of the children of man is fully set to do evil.
Sep 16
Amelia Gillen
highlighted Ecclesiastes 8:6 ESV
For there is a time and a way for everything, although man's trouble lies heavy on him.
Sep 16
Amelia Gillen
highlighted Ecclesiastes 7:22 ESV
Your heart knows that many times you yourself have cursed others.
Sep 16
Amelia Gillen
highlighted Ecclesiastes 7:21 ESV
Do not take to heart all the things that people say, lest you hear your servant cursing you.
Sep 16
Amelia Gillen
highlighted Ecclesiastes 7:20 ESV
Surely there is not a righteous man on earth who does good and never sins.
Sep 16
Amelia Gillen
highlighted Ecclesiastes 7:18 ESV
It is good that you should take hold of this, and from that withhold not your hand, for the one who fears God shall come out from both of them.
Sep 16