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Quotes About Remnant

But that which helped me in this temptation, was divers considerations, of which, three in special here I will name, the first was the consideration of these two scriptures, Leave thy fatherless children, I will preserve them alive, and let thy widows trust in me: and again, The Lord said, Verily it shall be well with thy remnant, verily, I will cause the enemy to entreat thee well in the time of evil, and in time of affliction.  Jer. xlix. 11; xv. 11.
~ John Bunyan
All that lasts of love is its poison.
~ Unknown
Luther claims. Having lost their status as the chosen people and therefore no longer truly "Jews," the Jews are "even changed into another people altogether, with nothing [of the original] left but a lazy remnant" of foreign rascals or gypsies
~ Unknown
A small town at the southern tip of the empire. I had a bit of trouble finding it myself—it's been excluded from the more recent maps. Whatever reason there was for the town's existence has apparently passed. It is withering and dying, a refuge for petty criminals and down-at-the-heels adventurers. Still, it's part of the empire.
~ Lynn Abbey
Are you aware that humanity is just a blip? Not even a blip. Just a fraction of a fraction of what the universe has been and will become? Talk about perspective. I figure I can't feel so entirely stupid about saying what I said because, first of all, it's true. And second of all, there will be no remnant of me or my stupidity. No fossil or geographical shift that can document, really, even the most important historical human beings, let alone my paltry admissions.
~ Unknown
Generally, seasonal flu is a remnant of a strain of the flu virus that once caused a pandemic.
~ Unknown
Even when it seems that we're surrounded by apostates and enemies, even when it seems we're alone and that everyone around us has defected, we must remember God's message to Elijah. Listen for the gentle whisper of the Spirit. Remember that God always reserves a remnant of faithful followers for himself. Therefore, stand strong in your faithfulness to the Lord, so that you will always be counted among God's faithful remnant.
~ Unknown
Hate is a small remnant of love.
~ Unknown
Information can neither be created nor destroyed – it's accessible or it's inaccessible, but it is. If you have known it, and you can find the tiniest remnant of association, then you will know it again.
~ Pat Cadigan
Dicen que los lugares conservan por lo menos cierta huella de las personas que los han habitado.
~ Patrick Modiano
We believe this to be the work of thieves, and I'll tell you why. The whole pattern is very reminiscent of past robberies where we have found thieves to be involved. The tell-tale loss of property — that's one of the signs we look for.
~ Peter Cook
God sent me before you to preserve you as a remnant on the earth and to save your lives by a great deliverance.
~ Genesis 45:7
Then you must burn up the remainder of the meat and bread.
~ Leviticus 8:32
So they struck down Og, along with his sons and his whole army, until no remnant was left. And they took possession of his land.
~ Numbers 21:35
(For only Og king of Bashan had remained of the remnant of the Rephaim. His bed of iron, nine cubits long and four cubits wide, is still in Rabbah of the Ammonites.)
~ Deuteronomy 3:11
Then the LORD will scatter you among the peoples, and only a few of you will survive among the nations to which the LORD will drive you.
~ Deuteronomy 4:27
You who were as numerous as the stars in the sky will be left few in number, because you would not obey the voice of the LORD your God.
~ Deuteronomy 28:62
the whole kingdom of Og in Bashan, who had reigned in Ashtaroth and Edrei and had remained as a remnant of the Rephaim. Moses had struck them down and dispossessed them,
~ Joshua 13:12
At this, David summoned the Gibeonites and spoke to them. (Now the Gibeonites were not Israelites, but a remnant of the Amorites. The Israelites had taken an oath concerning them, but in his zeal for Israel and Judah, Saul had sought to kill them.)
~ 2 Samuel 21:2
Nevertheless, I have reserved seven thousand in Israel—all whose knees have not bowed to Baal and whose mouths have not kissed him.”
~ 1 Kings 19:18
Perhaps the LORD your God will hear all the words of the Rabshakeh, whom his master the king of Assyria has sent to defy the living God, and He will rebuke him for the words that the LORD your God has heard. Therefore lift up a prayer for the remnant that still survives.”
~ 2 Kings 19:4
And the surviving remnant of the house of Judah will again take root below and bear fruit above.
~ 2 Kings 19:30
For a remnant will go forth from Jerusalem, and survivors from Mount Zion. The zeal of the LORD of Hosts will accomplish this.
~ 2 Kings 19:31
So I will forsake the remnant of My inheritance and deliver them into the hands of their enemies. And they will become plunder and spoil to all their enemies,
~ 2 Kings 21:14