Quotes About Reflection

“Look,” said Isaac, “I am now old, and I do not know the day of my death.

On reaching a certain place, he spent the night there because the sun had set. And taking one of the stones from that place, he put it under his head and lay down to sleep.

When Jacob woke up, he thought, “Surely the LORD is in this place, and I was unaware of it.”

I am unworthy of all the kindness and faithfulness You have shown Your servant. Indeed, with only my staff I came across the Jordan, but now I have become two camps.

And his brothers were jealous of him, but his father kept in mind what he had said.

So he asked the officials of Pharaoh who were in custody with him in his masterís house, “Why are your faces so downcast today?”

Then the chief cupbearer said to Pharaoh, “Today I recall my failures.

Then they said to one another, “Surely we are being punished because of our brother. We saw his anguish when he pleaded with us, but we would not listen. That is why this distress has come upon us.”

If we had not delayed, we could have come and gone twice by now.”

“How many years have you lived?” Pharaoh asked.

“My travels have lasted 130 years,” Jacob replied. “My years have been few and hard, and they have not matched the years of the travels of my fathers.”

Instead, Pharaoh turned around, went into his palace, and did not take any of this to heart.

He told them, “This is what the LORD has said: ëTomorrow is to be a day of complete rest, a holy Sabbath to the LORD. So bake what you want to bake, and boil what you want to boil. Then set aside whatever remains and keep it until morning.í”

For six days you may gather, but on the seventh day, the Sabbath, it will not be there.”

Yet on the seventh day some of the people went out to gather, but they did not find anything.

Understand that the LORD has given you the Sabbath; that is why on the sixth day He will give you bread for two days. On the seventh day, everyone must stay where he is; no one may leave his place.”

So the people rested on the seventh day.

But Mosesí father-in-law said to him, “What you are doing is not good.

Remember the Sabbath day by keeping it holy.

For in six days the LORD made the heavens and the earth and the sea and all that is in them, but on the seventh day He rested. Therefore the LORD blessed the Sabbath day and set it apart as holy.

The LORD also said to Moses, “I have seen this people, and they are indeed a stiff-necked people.

When the people heard these bad tidings, they went into mourning, and no one put on any of his jewelry.

For six days work may be done, but the seventh day shall be your holy day, a Sabbath of complete rest to the LORD. Whoever does any work on that day must be put to death.

Do not light a fire in any of your dwellings on the Sabbath day.”