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Cloud of Unknowing
Chapter 54: How that by virtue of this work a man is governed full wisely, and made full seemly as well in body as in soul (4)
And what shall I more say of these venomous deceits? Truly I trow, unless they have grace to leave off such piping hypocrisy, that betwixt that privy pride in their hearts within and such meek words without, the silly soul may full soon sink into sorrow.
Book of Enoch
Chapter XCIX (12)
Woe to you who make deceitful and false measures, And (to them) who cause bitterness on the earth; For they shall thereby be utterly consumed.
Book of Enoch
Chapter XCIV (6)
Woe to those who build unrighteousness and oppression And lay deceit as a foundation; For they shall be suddenly overthrown, And they shall have no...
Stromata (Miscellanies)
Chapter VIII: The Sophistical Arts Useless. (7)
Accordingly I wholly approve of the tragedy, when it says: "O son, false words can be well spoken, And truth may be vanquished by beauty of words.
Asclepius
Section XXIII (1)
Still, of the rest, the vicious folk, we ought to say no word, for fear a very sacred sermon should be spoiled by thinking of them.
Book of Enoch
Chapter XCVIII (15)
Woe to you who write down lying and godless words; for they write down their lies that men may hear them and act godlessly towards (their) neighbour.
Stromata (Miscellanies)
Chapter VIII: The Sophistical Arts Useless. (6)
But now in fluent mouths the weightiest truths They disguise, so that they do not seem what they ought to seem," says the tragedy. Such are these wran...
Dhammapada
Chapter XXII: The Downward Course (316)
They who are ashamed of what they ought not to be ashamed of, and are not ashamed of what they ought to be ashamed of, such men, embracing false...
The Three Principles of the Divine Essence
Chapter 25: The Suffering, Dying, Death, and Resurrection of Jesus Christ the Son of God: Also of his Ascension into Heaven, and sitting at the Right-hand of God his Father. The Gate of our Misery; and also the strong Gate of the Divine Power in his Love. (56)
Thus Falsehood is wrought with Falsehood, and the Inferior is become false also, who has set Lies to Sale for Truth, and so falsly cheated his...
Stromata (Miscellanies)
Chapter X: To Act Well of Greater Consequence Than to Speak Well. (5)
Accordingly, the blessed apostle very appropriately and urgently exhorts us "not to strive about words to no profit, but to the subverting of the...
Chapter 8: Of the whole Corpus or Body of an Angelical Kingdom. The Great Mystery. (97)
And seeing they are too weak for this strong spirit, and cannot elevate themselves, they yield or surrender their noble power, and that smells so love...
Book of Enoch
Chapter LIV (10)
And when they have recognized their unrighteousness which they have wrought on the earth, then by these shall they perish.
Stromata (Miscellanies)
Chapter VIII: The Sophistical Arts Useless. (3)
With reason, therefore, the noble apostle, depreciating these superfluous arts occupied about words, says, "If any man do not give heed to wholesome w...
Book of Enoch
Chapter XCIV (5)
And hold fast my words in the thoughts of your hearts, And suffer them not to be effaced from your hearts; For I know that sinners will tempt men to e...
Chapter 13: Of the terrible, doleful, and lamentable, miserable Fall of the Kingdom of Lucifer. (15)
Then he that will not take heed and beware of his lies, while he may very well do it, there is no remedy for him neither here nor hereafter: he that...
The Complete Sayings of Jesus
XIV. The Sermon on the Mount: the Beatitudes, Admonitions, Precepts (10)
Blessed are ye, when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake.
Stromata (Miscellanies)
Chapter XVI: Scripture the Criterion By Which Truth and Heresy Are Distinguished. (27)
I have adduced these things from a wish to avert those, who are eager to learn, from the liability to fall into heresies, and out of a desire to stop...
The Masnavi
The Sufi's Beast (61-70)
Is made to revolve by the strokes of the King's hand. O man of double vision, hearken with attention, Many are the holy words that find no entrance...
Book of Enoch
Chapter XCIX (1)
Woe to you who work godlessness, And glory in lying and extol them: Ye shall perish, and no happy life shall be yours.
Chapter 5: Of the Corporeal Substance, Being and Propriety of an Angel. Question. (29)
Here I write not without knowledge; but if thou, like an epicure and fatted swine of the devil, from the devil's instigation, shouldst mock at these...
Chapter 12: Of the Nativity and Proceeding forth or Descent of the Holy Angels, as also of their Government, Order, and Heavenly joyous Life. (99)
O world, where is thy humility? Where is thy angelical love? Where is thy courteous friendliness? At that very instant when the mouth saith, God save...
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