"Counseling" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Al-Yaman the folk brought thereof one-fourth of the whole and he three-fourths paying in ready cash and hard money.[FN608] So his word was heard and his works were preferred amongst the Traders and the Grandees and the Rulers. Also he had control[FN609] in counseling the Kings and he was held in awe and obeyed by the merchants, one and all, who consulted him in each and every of their affairs. This endured until one year of the years when suddenly he fell sick and his sickness grew upon him and gained mastery over his frame, so he sent ...
— Supplemental Nights, Volume 5 • Richard F. Burton
... indicates that love is the greatest, because it has most fruits. Faith and hope have to do only with God; but love has infinite offices externally towards men. [Love goes forth upon earth among the people, and does much good, by consoling, teaching, instructing, helping, counseling privately and publicly.] Nevertheless, let us, indeed, grant to the adversaries that love towards God and our neighbor is the greatest virtue, because the chief commandment is this: Thou shalt love the Lord, thy God Matt. 22, ...
— The Apology of the Augsburg Confession • Philip Melanchthon
... of an enemy are deceitful, but not as deceitful as the advice of the friend who is always counseling ...
— Crankisms • Lisle de Vaux Matthewman |
