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Quotes About Graven

Behold , I have graven you upon the palm of my hand, that is what Jesus came on earth to do: to proclaim, to give us the Good News that God loves us, that we are precious to Him.
~ Mother Teresa
These are graven images – idolatry. A sin." He knew it was true. This was a love of worldly beauty utterly at odds with all he knew to be Puritan and holy.
~ Edward Rutherfurd
Babylon is fallen, is fallen; and all the graven images of her gods he hath broken unto the ground.
~ Anonymous
IDENTITY CLUE 9: "THEY ARE MAD UPON THEIR IDOLS" "…for it is the land of graven images, and they are mad upon their idols" (Jeremiah 50:38b) What is America's currently most watched television program?
~ John Price
And graven with diamonds in letters plainThere is written her fair neck round about:Noli me tangere, for Caesar's I am,And wild for to hold, though I seem tame.
~ Sir Thomas Wyatt
knows a higher law. One cannot turn back, and must put away "graven images.
~ Florence Scovel Shinn
I myself have seen the floating ships And nothing will ever be the same The shouts, The harrowing voices within the house. I stand apart with an army: My mind is graven with ships.
~ Hilda Doolittle
Yet every writer worth a good-god damn knows this too, for it is graven into each of us: no one cares for beauty. Not in fiction. Not on its own, not pure, untroubled beauty; not in fiction. [...] For here is the only real difference between the life of reality and the life of fiction. Fiction only works when the beauty is tainted by pain. For fiction is not about life; it's about the troubles of life.
~ Marcus Sedgwick
And when he had returned the eleven hundred shekels of silver to his mother, she said, “I wholly dedicate the silver to the LORD for my sonís benefit, to make a graven image and a molten idol. Therefore I will now return it to you.”
~ Judges 17:3
When they entered Micahís house and took the graven image, the ephod, the household idols, and the molten idol, the priest said to them, “What are you doing?”
~ Judges 18:18