Quotes About Spirituality

And at the end of ten days, they looked healthier and better nourished than all the young men who were eating the kingís food.

Now when Daniel learned that the document had been signed, he went into his house, where the windows of his upper room opened toward Jerusalem, and three times a day he got down on his knees, prayed, and gave thanks to his God, just as he had done before.

Daniel declared: “In my vision in the night I looked, and suddenly the four winds of heaven were churning up the great sea.

While I was contemplating the horns, suddenly another horn, a little one, came up among them, and three of the first horns were uprooted before it. This horn had eyes like those of a man and a mouth that spoke words of arrogance.

As I was contemplating all this, suddenly a goat with a prominent horn between his eyes came out of the west, crossing the surface of the entire earth without touching the ground.

He said to me, “It will take 2,300 evenings and mornings; then the sanctuary will be properly restored.”

While I, Daniel, was watching the vision and trying to understand it, there stood before me one having the appearance of a man.

I, Daniel, was exhausted and lay ill for days. Then I got up and went about the kingís business. I was confounded by the vision; it was beyond understanding.

He instructed me and spoke with me, saying: “O Daniel, I have come now to give you insight and understanding.

In those days I, Daniel, was mourning for three full weeks.

I ate no rich food, no meat or wine entered my mouth, and I did not anoint myself with oil until the three weeks were completed.

On the twenty-fourth day of the first month, as I was standing on the bank of the great river, the Tigris,

Only I, Daniel, saw the vision; the men with me did not see it, but a great terror fell upon them, and they ran and hid themselves.

I heard the sound of his words, and as I listened, I fell into a deep sleep, with my face to the ground.

However, the prince of the kingdom of Persia opposed me for twenty-one days. Then Michael, one of the chief princes, came to help me, for I had been left there with the kings of Persia.

While he was speaking these words to me, I set my face toward the ground and became speechless.

Again the one with the likeness of a man touched me and strengthened me.

“Do you know why I have come to you?” he said. “I must return at once to fight against the prince of Persia, and when I have gone forth, behold, the prince of Greece will come.

Then I, Daniel, looked and saw two others standing there, one on this bank of the river and one on the opposite bank.

Otherwise, I will strip her naked and expose her like the day of her birth. I will make her like a desert and turn her into a parched land, and I will let her die of thirst.

And I will betroth you in faithfulness, and you will know the LORD.”

They feed on the sins of My people and set their hearts on iniquity.

They will eat but not be satisfied; they will be promiscuous but not multiply. For they have stopped obeying the LORD.

My people consult their wooden idols, and their divining rods inform them. For a spirit of prostitution leads them astray and they have played the harlot against their God.