Being Naive

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Proverbs 1:4
To give subtlety to the simple, to the young man knowledge and discretion.
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Proverbs 1:32
For the turning away of the simple shall slay them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them.
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Proverbs 8:5
O you simple, understand wisdom: and, you fools, be you of an understanding heart.
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Proverbs 14:15
The simple believes every word: but the prudent man looks well to his going.
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Library

The First Discovery of America.
... It is so sad, that no tenderness less exquisite than his can prevent its being painful;
and, at least in its denouement, so naive, that no purity less ...
/.../lectures delivered in america in 1874/lecture iii the first discovery.htm

Introduction
... The Diary relates in simple, naive style the experiences which befell the narrator
as he ... If he is to be a rational being at all he must relate his life to ...
/.../pringle/the record of a quaker conscience cyrus pringles diary/introduction.htm

Guidance in the Way
... Another consideration suggested by these words, 'I being in the way,' is that if ...
He had ventured to prescribe a certain token, naive in its simplicity: 'If the ...
/.../maclaren/expositions of holy scripture k/guidance in the way.htm

Early Years of his Episcopate. The Anti-Nicene Reaction, 328-335.
... 7. Meanwhile, the anti-Nicene reaction was being skilfully fostered by the strategy
of ... better be dropped (p.135; the letter is an amusingly naive exhibition of ...
/.../athanasius/select works and letters or athanasius/section 4 early years of.htm

Obedient Disobedience
... How beautifully natural that is, 'Being let go, they went to their own,'
and how large a principle is expressed in the naive words! ...
/.../maclaren/expositions of holy scripture the acts/obedient disobedience.htm

Achan's Sin, Israel's Defeat
... carefulness for his own good fame so much as from his dread of being unable to ... The
naive simplicity of the appeal to God, 'What wilt Thou do for Thy great name ...
/.../maclaren/expositions of holy scripture f/achans sin israels defeat.htm

Arrest and Trial of Jesus.
... naive impudence of which provokes a smile. A judicial ambush is there made an essential
part of the examination of criminals. When a man was accused of being a ...
/.../renan/the life of jesus/chapter xxiv arrest and trial.htm

What God Hath Cleansed
... was not a substitute for Christ, but was the occasion of his being led to ... The naive
reason he gives for not obeying"namely, his never having done as he was ...
/.../maclaren/expositions of holy scripture the acts/what god hath cleansed.htm

The Christian Conception of Life Has Already Arisen in Our Society ...
... them or to profit by them, as they now are of being, or being reputed a ... One may often
nowadays hear from persons in authority the naive complaint that the best ...
/.../the kingdom of god is within you/chapter xi the christian conception.htm

Two Prophets of the Inward Word: Bunderlin and Entfelder
... for Protestant Christendom, and while the fierce and decisive battle was being waged
over ... They are as naive and artless as little children, and they expect, as ...
/.../chapter iii two prophets of.htm