One should not be envious of someone who has prospered by unjust deeds. Nor should he disdain someone who has fallen while adhering to the path of righteousness.
The most popular argument in all these papers was the assertion. . . that Christianity had grown and prospered in spite of the opposition of the State.
You can make some inferences about a man's character if you know something about the conditions in which he has survived and prospered.
My mother had gotten a job as a receptionist at a dancing school and had the idea that we should open our own dancing school; we did, and it prospered.
Let them call it mischief; when it is past and prospered, it will be virtue.
Man has survived and prospered for more than 150,000 years on this planet without the help of use-by dates.
How did the economy produce all these amazing things that we have around us - computers and cell phones and so on? There were a bunch of ideas, and the good ones grew and prospered. And the bad ones were pretty ruthlessly weeded out.
No church can be prospered in which all the ministration comes from the pulpit.
East Asia has prospered since the end of the Vietnam War, and Northeast Asia has prospered since the end of the Korean War in a way that seems unimaginable when you think of the history of the first half of the century.
