Does anything exist about which someone might say, "Look at this! Is this new?" It happened ages ago; it existed before we did.

What is crooked cannot be made straight; what is not there cannot be counted.

He made everything appropriate in its time. He also placed eternity within them yet, no person can fully comprehend what God is doing from beginning to end.

"As for human beings," I told myself, "God puts them to the test, that they might see themselves as mere animals."

A man might father a hundred children, and live for many years, so that the length of his life is long but if his life does not overflow with goodness, and he doesn't receive a proper burial, I maintain that stillborn children are better off than he is,

Sorrow is better than laughter, because the heart is made better through trouble.

When times are good, be joyful; when times are bad, consider this: God made the one as well as the other, so people won't seek anything outside of his best.

I have discovered only this: God made human beings for righteousness, but they seek many alternatives."

I considered and observed on earth the following: The race doesn't go to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, nor food to the wise, nor wealth to the smart, nor recognition to the skilled. Instead, timing and circumstances meet them all.

Someone who quarries stone might be injured; someone splitting logs can fall into danger.

Apportion what you have into seven, or even eight parts, because you don't know what disaster might befall the land.