Quotes About Spirituality

The fear of the LORD is a fountain of life, turning a man from the snares of death.

The LORD detests the thoughts of the wicked, but the words of the pure are pleasant to Him.

Whoever turns his ear away from hearing the law, even his prayer is detestable.

I have not learned wisdom, and I have no knowledge of the Holy One.

This is Solomonís Song of Songs.

My beloved is to me a sachet of myrrh resting between my breasts.

Your lips are like a scarlet ribbon, and your mouth is lovely. Your brow behind your veil is like a slice of pomegranate.

Before the day breaks and the shadows flee, I will make my way to the mountain of myrrh and to the hill of frankincense.

Your brow behind your veil is like a slice of pomegranate.

Come away, my beloved, and be like a gazelle or a young stag on the mountains of spices.

Listen, O heavens, and give ear, O earth, for the LORD has spoken: “I have raised children and brought them up, but they have rebelled against Me.

The ox knows its owner, and the donkey its masterís manger, but Israel does not know; My people do not understand.”

I hate your New Moons and your appointed feasts. They have become a burden to Me; I am weary of bearing them.

For you will become like an oak whose leaves are withered, like a garden without water.

Come, O house of Jacob, let us walk in the light of the LORD.

Their land is full of idols; they bow down to the work of their hands, to what their fingers have made.

against all the tall mountains, against all the high hills,

and the idols will vanish completely.

Put no more trust in man, who has only the breath in his nostrils. Of what account is he?

The LORD also says: “Because the daughters of Zion are haughty—walking with heads held high and wanton eyes, prancing and skipping as they go, jingling the bracelets on their ankles—

the Lord will bring sores on the heads of the daughters of Zion, and the LORD will make their foreheads bare.”

In that day the Lord will take away their finery: their anklets and headbands and crescents;

“And now, O dwellers of Jerusalem and men of Judah, I exhort you to judge between Me and My vineyard.

Now I will tell you what I am about to do to My vineyard: I will take away its hedge, and it will be consumed; I will tear down its wall, and it will be trampled.