Quotes About Spirituality

“Amos, what do you see?” He asked. “A basket of summer fruit,” I replied. So the LORD said to me, “The end has come for My people Israel; I will no longer spare them.”

Behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord GOD, when I will send a famine on the land—not a famine of bread or a thirst for water, but a famine of hearing the words of the LORD.

In that day the lovely young women—the young men as well—will faint from thirst.

Those who cling to worthless idols forsake His loving devotion.

Arise and depart, for this is not your place of rest, because its defilement brings destruction—a grievous destruction!

If a man of wind were to come and say falsely, “I will preach to you of wine and strong drink,” he would be just the preacher for this people!

Therefore night will come over you without visions, and darkness without divination. The sun will set on these prophets, and the daylight will turn black over them.

Though each of the peoples may walk in the name of his god, yet we will walk in the name of the LORD our God forever and ever.

But now many nations have assembled against you, saying, “Let her be defiled, and let us feast our eyes on Zion.”

I will cut the sorceries from your hand, and you will have no fortune-tellers.

Woe to him who says to wood, ëAwake!í or to silent stone, ëArise!í Can it give guidance? Behold, it is overlaid with gold and silver, yet there is no breath in it at all.”

This is a prayer of Habakkuk the prophet, according to Shigionoth:

those who bow on the rooftops to worship the host of heaven, those who bow down and swear by the LORD but also swear by Milcom,

and those who turn back from following the LORD, neither seeking the LORD nor inquiring of Him.”

Her prophets are reckless, faithless men. Her priests profane the sanctuary; they do violence to the law.

But I will leave within you a meek and humble people, and they will trust in the name of the LORD.

Now this is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Consider carefully your ways.

This is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Consider carefully your ways.

Therefore, on account of you the heavens have withheld their dew and the earth has withheld its crops.

“This is what the LORD of Hosts says: ëAsk the priests for a ruling.

If a man carries consecrated meat in the fold of his garment, and it touches bread, stew, wine, oil, or any other food, does that item become holy?í” “No,” replied the priests.

So Haggai asked, “If one who is defiled by contact with a corpse touches any of these, does it become defiled?” “Yes, it becomes defiled,” the priests answered.

Now consider carefully from this day forward: Before one stone was placed on another in the temple of the LORD,

Consider carefully from this day forward—from the twenty-fourth day of the ninth month, the day the foundation of the LORDís temple was laid—consider carefully: