Quotes About Spirituality

But even the archangel Michael, when he disputed with the devil over the body of Moses, did not presume to bring a slanderous charge against him, but said, “The Lord rebuke you!”

These men are hidden reefs in your love feasts, shamelessly feasting with you but shepherding only themselves. They are clouds without water, carried along by the wind; fruitless trees in autumn, twice dead after being uprooted.

Blessed is the one who reads aloud the words of this prophecy, and blessed are those who hear and obey what is written in it, because the time is near.

Then I turned to see the voice that was speaking with me. And having turned, I saw seven golden lampstands,

This is the mystery of the seven stars you saw in My right hand and of the seven golden lampstands: The seven stars are the angels of the seven churches, and the seven lampstands are the seven churches.

But I have this against you: You have abandoned your first love.

To the angel of the church in Pergamum write: These are the words of the One who holds the sharp, double-edged sword.

Therefore repent! Otherwise I will come to you shortly and wage war against them with the sword of My mouth.

Remember, then, what you have received and heard. Keep it and repent. If you do not wake up, I will come like a thief, and you will not know the hour when I will come upon you.

But you do have a few people in Sardis who have not soiled their garments, and because they are worthy, they will walk with Me in white.

I know your deeds; you are neither cold nor hot. How I wish you were one or the other!

So because you are lukewarm—neither hot nor cold—I am about to vomit you out of My mouth!

You say, ëI am rich; I have grown wealthy and need nothing.í But you do not realize that you are wretched, pitiful, poor, blind, and naked.

After this I looked and saw a door standing open in heaven. And the voice I had previously heard speak to me like a trumpet was saying, “Come up here, and I will show you what must happen after these things.”

And when the Lamb opened the second seal, I heard the second living creature say, “Come!”

And when the Lamb opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth living creature say, “Come!”

And when the Lamb opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of those who had been slain for the word of God and for the testimony they had upheld.

After this I saw four angels standing at the four corners of the earth, holding back its four winds so that no wind would blow on land or sea or on any tree.

And the smoke of the incense, together with the prayers of the saints, rose up before God from the hand of the angel.

They were told not to harm the grass of the earth or any plant or tree, but only those who did not have the seal of God on their foreheads.

They were ruled by a king, the angel of the Abyss. His name in Hebrew is Abaddon, and in Greek it is Apollyon.

saying to the sixth angel with the trumpet, “Release the four angels who are bound at the great river Euphrates.”

Now the rest of mankind who were not killed by these plagues still did not repent of the works of their hands. They did not stop worshiping demons and idols of gold, silver, bronze, stone, and wood, which cannot see or hear or walk.

And they told me, “You must prophesy again about many peoples and nations and tongues and kings.”