Quotes About Spirituality

the gods of the peoples around you, whether near or far, whether from one end of the earth or the other),

the deer, the gazelle, the roe deer, the wild goat, the ibex, the antelope, and the mountain sheep.

the little owl, the great owl, the white owl,

the desert owl, the osprey, the cormorant,

and do not set up for yourselves a sacred pillar, which the LORD your God hates.

Although they have no inheritance among their brothers, the LORD is their inheritance, as He promised them.

Let no one be found among you who sacrifices his son or daughter in the fire, practices divination or conjury, interprets omens, practices sorcery,

Though these nations, which you will dispossess, listen to conjurers and diviners, the LORD your God has not permitted you to do so.

You may ask in your heart, “How can we recognize a message that the LORD has not spoken?”

And you must have a digging tool in your equipment so that when you relieve yourself you can dig a hole and cover up your excrement.

You will be cursed when you come in and cursed when you go out.

The LORD will turn the rain of your land into dust and powder; it will descend on you from the sky until you are destroyed.

The LORD will afflict you with madness, blindness, and confusion of mind,

Yet to this day the LORD has not given you a mind to understand, eyes to see, or ears to hear.

You ate no bread and drank no wine or strong drink, so that you might know that I am the LORD your God.

You saw the abominations and idols among them made of wood and stone, of silver and gold.

They went and served other gods, and they worshiped gods they had not known—gods that the LORD had not given to them.

And you will again obey the voice of the LORD and follow all His commandments I am giving you today.

But if your heart turns away and you do not listen, but are drawn away to bow down to other gods and worship them,

They sacrificed to demons, not to God, to gods they had not known, to newly arrived gods, which your fathers did not fear.

This is the blessing that Moses the man of God pronounced upon the Israelites before his death.

Moses was a hundred and twenty years old when he died, yet his eyes were not weak, and his vitality had not diminished.

Just as we obeyed Moses in all things, so we will obey you. And may the LORD your God be with you, as He was with Moses.

Now when all the Amorite kings west of the Jordan and all the Canaanite kings along the coast heard how the LORD had dried up the waters of the Jordan before the Israelites until they had crossed over, their hearts melted and their spirits failed for fear of the Israelites.