Quotes About Life

As for the rest of the beasts, their dominion was removed, but they were granted an extension of life for a season and a time.

And many who sleep in the dust of the earth will awake, some to everlasting life, but others to shame and everlasting contempt.

After two days He will revive us; on the third day He will raise us up, that we may live in His presence.

I will ransom them from the power of Sheol; I will redeem them from Death. Where, O Death, are your plagues? Where, O Sheol, is your sting? Compassion is hidden from My eyes.

I will be like the dew to Israel; he will blossom like the lily and take root like the cedars of Lebanon.

His shoots will sprout, and his splendor will be like the olive tree, his fragrance like the cedars of Lebanon.

Escape will fail the swift, the strong will not prevail by his strength, and the mighty will not save his life.

For this is what the LORD says to the house of Israel: “Seek Me and live!

Seek good, not evil, so that you may live. And the LORD, the God of Hosts, will be with you, as you have claimed.

It will be like a man who flees from a lion, only to encounter a bear, or who enters his house and rests his hand against the wall, only to be bitten by a snake.

So they cried out to the LORD: “Please, O LORD, do not let us perish on account of this manís life! Do not charge us with innocent blood! For You, O LORD, have done as You pleased.”

The waters engulfed me to take my life; the watery depths closed around me; the seaweed wrapped around my head.

To the roots of the mountains I descended; the earth beneath me barred me in forever! But You raised my life from the pit, O LORD my God!

As my life was fading away, I remembered the LORD. My prayer went up to You, to Your holy temple.

And now, O LORD, please take my life from me, for it is better for me to die than to live.”

As the sun was rising, God appointed a scorching east wind, and the sun beat down on Jonahís head so that he grew faint and wished to die, saying, “It is better for me to die than to live.”

Then God asked Jonah, “Have you any right to be angry about the plant?” “I do,” he replied. “I am angry enough to die!”

But the LORD said, “You cared about the plant, which you neither tended nor made grow. It sprang up in a night and perished in a night.

Are You not from everlasting, O LORD, my God, my Holy One? We will not die. O LORD, You have appointed them to execute judgment; O Rock, You have established them for correction.

You have made men like the fish of the sea, like creeping things that have no ruler.

Look at the proud one; his soul is not upright—but the righteous will live by faith—

You have plotted shame for your house by cutting off many peoples and forfeiting your life.

Where are your fathers now? And the prophets, do they live forever?

And the streets of the city will be filled with boys and girls playing there.”