Quotes about Counsel
We took sweet counsel together.
- Anonymous
Let the counsel of thine own heart stand.
- Anonymous
Tis the advisor who suffers from bad advice.
- Anonymous
A leader must be a good listener. He must be willing to take counsel. He must show a genuine concern and love for those under his stewardship.
- James Faust
it is important to mark this circumstance, that at the very time when the men of Sodom, having dismissed all fear of God, were indulging themselves, and were promising themselves impunity, however they might sin, God was taking counsel to destroy them, and was moved, by the tumultuous cry of their iniquities, to descend to earth, while they were buried in profound sleep.
- John Calvin
For, the counsel of God confronts us with the truth that the Righteous One was delivered to death for our sins, and his blood was our ransom from death.
- John Calvin
But the secret counsel of God is something else. It is so deep and so high that no exploration can attain to it.
- John Calvin
Counsel involving right and wrong should never be sought from a man who does not say his prayers.
- Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
A prophet or prophetess then, is a spokesperson for God, one who hears the voice of the Holy Spirit and speaks or pens God's mind or counsel through a divinely anointed manner.
- James Goll
He had the kind of character in which prudence is a vice, and good advice the most dangerous nourishment.
- Edith Wharton
In these meetings of all sorts, every counsel, in proportion as it is daring and violent and perfidious, is taken for the mark of superior genius. Humanity and compassion are ridiculed as the fruits of superstition and ignorance. Tenderness to individuals is considered as treason to the public.
- Edmund Burke
We ought with reverence to approach that tremendous divinity, that loves courage, but commands counsel.
- Edmund Burke