Gird up your loins like a man; I will question you, and you declare to me. Will you even put me in the wrong? Will you condemn me ...that you may be justified?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
So-called "austerity," the stoic injunction, is the path towards universal destruction. It is the old, the fatal, competitive path.... "Pull in your belt" is a slogan closely related to "gird up your loins," or the guns-butter metaphor.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
They who know of no purer sources of truth, who have traced up its stream no higher, stand, and wisely stand, by the Bible and the... Constitution, and drink at it there with reverence and humility; but they who behold where it comes trickling into this lake or that pool, gird up their loins once more, and continue their pilgrimage toward its fountain-head.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The first ones ever, oh, ever to know of the rising of Jesus, his glory to be,... were Mary, Joanna, and Magdalene, and blessed are they are they who see.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
And they shall eat the flesh in that night, roast with fire, and unleavened bread; and with bitter herbs they shall eat it. Eat no...t of it raw, nor sodden at all with water, but roast with fire; his head with his legs, and with the purtenance thereof. And ye shall let nothing of it remain until the morning; and that which remaineth of it until the morning ye shall burn with fire. And thus shall ye eat it; with your loins girded, your shoes on your feet, and your staff in your hand; and ye shall eat it in haste: it is the Lord's passover.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Thou broughtest us into the net; thou laidst affliction upon our loins. Thou hast caused men to ride over our heads; we went throu...gh fire and through water; but thou broughtest us out into a wealthy place.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea, than that he should offend one of th...ese little ones.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »