Where God bestows an office, he provides brains to fill it.
More German Proverbs:
We know what we have, but not what we shall get.German
O what we must suffer for the sake of God's church! said the abbot, when the roast fowl burned his fingers.
German
The praise of a thousand jesters counts for nothing against the reprimand of one wise man.
German
Time and opportunity are in no man's sleeve.
German
Big churches, little saints.
German
With patience and time the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown.
German