Maria Esther Torres's Highlights
Maria Esther Torres
highlighted Psalms 78:15 ESV
He split rocks in the wilderness and gave them drink abundantly as from the deep.
Nov 15
Maria Esther Torres
highlighted Psalms 78:14 ESV
In the daytime he led them with a cloud, and all the night with a fiery light.
Nov 15
Maria Esther Torres
highlighted Psalms 78:13 ESV
He divided the sea and let them pass through it, and made the waters stand like a heap.
Nov 15
Maria Esther Torres
highlighted Psalms 78:8 ESV
and that they should not be like their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation, a generation whose heart was not steadfast, whose spirit was not faithful to God.
Nov 15
Maria Esther Torres
highlighted Psalms 78:7 ESV
so that they should set their hope in God and not forget the works of God, but keep his commandments;
Nov 15
Maria Esther Torres
highlighted Ecclesiastes 9:18 ESV
Wisdom is better than weapons of war, but one sinner destroys much good.
Nov 15
Maria Esther Torres
highlighted Ecclesiastes 9:17 ESV
The words of the wise heard in quiet are better than the shouting of a ruler among fools.
Nov 15
Maria Esther Torres
highlighted Ecclesiastes 9:10 ESV
Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might, for there is no work or thought or knowledge or wisdom in Sheol, to which you are going.
Nov 15
Maria Esther Torres
highlighted Ecclesiastes 9:11 ESV
Again I saw that under the sun the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, nor bread to the wise, nor riches to the intelligent, nor favor to those with knowledge, but time and chance happen to them all.
Nov 15
Maria Esther Torres
highlighted Ecclesiastes 8:16-17 ESV
When I applied my heart to know wisdom, and to see the business that is done on earth, how neither day nor night do one's eyes see sleep,then I saw all the work of God, that man cannot find out the work that is done under the sun. However much man may toil in seeking, he will not find it out. Even though a wise man claims to know, he cannot find it out.
Nov 15
Maria Esther Torres
highlighted Ecclesiastes 8:12 ESV
Though a sinner does evil a hundred times and prolongs his life, yet I know that it will be well with those who fear God, because they fear before him.
Nov 15
Maria Esther Torres
highlighted Ecclesiastes 8:6-8 ESV
For there is a time and a way for everything, although man's trouble lies heavy on him.For he does not know what is to be, for who can tell him how it will be?No man has power to retain the spirit, or power over the day of death. There is no discharge from war, nor will wickedness deliver those who are given to it.
Nov 15
Maria Esther Torres
highlighted Ecclesiastes 7:19 ESV
Wisdom gives strength to the wise man more than ten rulers who are in a city.
Nov 15
Maria Esther Torres
highlighted Ecclesiastes 7:17-18 ESV
Be not overly wicked, neither be a fool. Why should you die before your time?It is good that you should take hold of this, and from that withhold not your hand, for the one who fears God shall come out from both of them.
Nov 15
Maria Esther Torres
highlighted Ecclesiastes 7:13 ESV
Consider the work of God: who can make straight what he has made crooked?
Nov 15
Maria Esther Torres
highlighted Ecclesiastes 7:10 ESV
Say not, "Why were the former days better than these?" For it is not from wisdom that you ask this.
Nov 15
Maria Esther Torres
highlighted Ecclesiastes 7:8 ESV
Better is the end of a thing than its beginning, and the patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit.
Nov 15
Maria Esther Torres
highlighted Ecclesiastes 7:5 ESV
It is better for a man to hear the rebuke of the wise than to hear the song of fools.
Nov 15
Maria Esther Torres
highlighted Ecclesiastes 7:1 ESV
A good name is better than precious ointment, and the day of death than the day of birth.
Nov 15
Maria Esther Torres
highlighted John 19:35 ESV
He who saw it has borne witness—his testimony is true, and he knows that he is telling the truth—that you also may believe.
Nov 14