Quotes about Counsel

We took sweet counsel together.

Let the counsel of thine own heart stand.

Tis the advisor who suffers from bad advice.

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.

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.

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.

But the secret counsel of God is something else. It is so deep and so high that no exploration can attain to it.

Counsel involving right and wrong should never be sought from a man who does not say his prayers.

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.

He had the kind of character in which prudence is a vice, and good advice the most dangerous nourishment.

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.

We ought with reverence to approach that tremendous divinity, that loves courage, but commands counsel.