Quotes About Elijah

After a long time, in the third year, the word of the LORD came to Elijah: "Go and present yourself to Ahab, and I will send rain on the land." So Elijah went to present himself to Ahab. 1 Kings 18:1–2

Jesus could wash away your sins—but it is the only hope you have. Accept this offer now. Confess your sins to God. Thank Him for sending His Son. Transfer the trust you have in your good works to what Jesus did for you on the cross. Doing this will result in a pardon of all your sins. When the widow did what Elijah said to do, all he promised came to pass. It will with you, too, when you affirm this Gospel.

What do you do when you are misunderstood? Elijah impressively set a standard for how one should respond when

If Moses is the fountainhead and Samuel the rapids of the prophetic stream, then Elijah shaped the course of the classical prophets.

Those whom God calls to such a ministry - and a call is essential - must be prepared for a pathway of unpopularity and misunderstanding. "You troubler of Israel" was the way Ahab addressed Elijah.

We believe that the Honorable Elijah Mohammed is the apostle of Allah, God, but I'm only a helper and a minister of his.

Jesus heals and raises the dead; so too Elijah and Elisha. Jesus survives when children around him are slaughtered, just like Moses. I didn't have to read Matthew 2–7 to know that the rescued baby would take a trip to Egypt, cross water in a life-changing experience, face temptation in the wilderness, ascend a mountain, and deliver comments on the Law

I knit the afternoon away. I knit reasons for Elijah to come back. I knit apologies for Emma. I knit angry knots and slipped stitches for every mistake I ever made, and I knit wet, swollen stitches that look awful. I knit the sun down.

Hidden in your fears is the faith you are searching for. If you want to meet God, stand in your fears. Stand in your pain. Stand when everything inside you tells you to withdraw. Elijah ran from God and ran right into him.

Suddenly a chariot of fire appeared . . . and Elijah went up by a whirlwind into heaven. – 2 Kings 2:11

Elijah's example reminds us that God has left us on earth to influence the world, not to isolate ourselves from it.

Toward the end of 1837, a murder shook the nation. On November 7, a mob in Alton, Illinois, killed Elijah P. Lovejoy, owner of the Alton Observer, an abolitionist newspaper.

At the time of sacrifice, the prophet Elijah stepped forward and prayed: "O LORD, God of Abraham, Isaac and Israel, let it be known today that you are God in Israel and that I am your servant and have done all these things at your command. Answer me, O LORD, answer me, so these people will know that you, O LORD, are God, and that you are turning their hearts back again." Then the fire of the LORD fell and burned up the sacrifice. 1 KINGS 18:36 – 38

Before Elijah could raise a nation from the dead, he raised just one dead child.

There appeared a chariot of fire, and horses of fire, and parted them both asunder; and Elijah went up by a whirlwind into heaven.

The chariot of Israel, and the horsemen thereof. And he saw him no more.

Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord.

Continuing the legacy of Elijah E. Cummings requires that we fulfill our destiny to fight for the world as it should be.

la historia de Elías me invitó a dejar de intentar combatir el cansancio y rendirme a él en la presencia del Señor.

ON WHITES AS "DEVILS" "It's what He revealed, and what He revealed is what I am teaching and believe in, and this term "devil," or name "devil," is applied to wicked people, people who are by nature wicked. "They were made white, or different color, because they had been grafted out of the darker people, and, therefore, they have that color." ON FRUIT OF ISLAM "The Fruit of Islam means the first converts

The person who leaves the teachings of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad makes himself a fool. The advice to all our people is Get On To Your Own Kind, this world is at hand!

There is no good in most of their secret counsels except (in) him who enjoins charity or goodness or reconciliation between

OBEY DIVINE MESSENGERS "And we sent no Messenger but that he should be obeyed by Allah's command" (Holy Qur-an 4:64) The so-called American Negroes have never had a Divine Messenger sent to them before the Honorable Elijah Muhammad.

And Isaiah says in his prophecy concerning us that God said He would call them by a new name that He, Himself, would give them, one of His own names, and would take away the names of the enemy and would slay the enemy.