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Quotes About Joshua

Parables were never my strong suit. If you wan to say something, say it. So, of course, Joshua and Buddhists were the perfect people to hang out with, straight talkers that they were.
~ Christopher Moore
By the way, his name was Joshua. Jesus is the Greek translation of the Hebrew Yeshua, which is Joshua. Christ is not a last name. It's the Greek for messiah, a Hebrew word meaning anointed. I have no idea what the "H" in Jesus H. Christ stood for. It's one of the things I should have asked him. Me? I am Levi who is called Biff. No middle initial. Joshua was my best friend.
~ Christopher Moore
You are not the anointed one," John said to Joshua. "Gabriel came to my father. Your angel didn't even have a name.
~ Christopher Moore
But it was Joshua Alexander who began striding toward him.
~ Kyle Mills
Joshua was trembling, for he knew what lay before him, and he wanted to cry out and run after the man who had been his master for so many years. But he knew he must not. At last the figure disappeared in the distance so that even the keenest-eyed Israelite could not see him. And then Joshua turned to Caleb, tears streaming down his face. "Never again," he whispered, "will we see a man like Moses!
~ Gilbert Morris
In the summer quiet. Just be. Joshua liked the Beatles, used to listen to them in his room, you could hear the noise even through the big headphones he loved. Let it be. Silly song, really. You let it be, it returns. There's the truth. You let it be, it drags you to the ground. You let it be, it crawls up your walls.
~ Colum McCann
The concern this raises, as Berding highlights, is that there is a famine of God's Word even in the church; we are starving ourselves to death. Instead of following the admonition to meditate on God's law day and night (Joshua 1:8; Psalm 1:2; 119:97), we take a haphazard approach to internalizing the Word in our lives.
~ Greg Ogden
The name Jesus is of Hebrew origin, and signifies Deliverer, and Savior. It is the same as that translated in the Old Testament Joshua. The word Christ, of Greek origin, is properly not a name but a title, signifying The Anointed. The whole name is therefore, Jesus the Anointed or Jesus the Messiah." (Abbott and Conant; Dic. of Relig. Knowledge, art. "Jesus Christ.")
~ Thomas William Doane
The name of the child, "Jesus," is a Greek translation of the Hebrew, "Joshua
~ Craig L. Blomberg
Chariots for Apollo: The Making of the Lunar Module, by Charles B. Pellegrino and Joshua Stoff (New York: Atheneum, 1985)
~ Charles Murray
Cully thought. And she sounded absolutely convinced of everything she said. You see, Augusta went on, I've been sent here by the Christian Ladies Temperance Society. I'm bringing their message to Abilene. Joshua and Sister Lorraine stared in surprise.
~ James Reasoner
I would not be a pastor of a church that did not have a program of Bible memorization in it, because Bible memorization is a fundamental way of filling our minds with what they need. "This book of the law shall not depart out of your mouth" (Joshua 1:8). That's where we need it! In our mouth.
~ Dallas Willard
It is an option and I would like to take part in the Olympics.
~ Joshua Kimmich
Implications For Today What do the Gaza Strip and the Golan Heights have in common with today? It is interesting that these were the places that Joshua failed to totally exterminate the Rephaim and Anakim (Nephilim); these were the strongholds of Israel's enemies then, and they remain so today!
~ Chuck Missler
fascinating conjecture as to the cause of this calendar change is detailed in Signs in the Heavens, a briefing package exploring the "long day" of Joshua and the possible orbital antics of the planet Mars.
~ Chuck Missler
Donald W. Patten, Ronald R. Hatch, and Loren C. Steinhauer, The Long Day of Joshua (Seattle,WA: Pacific Meridian Co., 1973); Donald W. Patten, Catastrophism and the Old Testament (Seattle,WA: Pacific Meridian Publishing Co.
~ Chuck Missler
Joshua 10:1–28; Rev. 6:15–17). The more you study both books, the more the similarities are striking and illuminating.
~ Chuck Missler
I was briefly in the original version of 'Tombstone,' but I didn't make the final cut because that movie went through a couple of different permutations.
~ Joshua Jackson
The Umbrella Movement was a legacy, not a victory, because there weren't any concrete policies or systematic reforms after it.
~ Joshua Wong
But JOSHUA whom the Gentiles JESUS call,   His Name and Office bearing, who shall quell   The adversarie Serpent, and bring back   Through the worlds wilderness long wanderd man   Safe to eternal Paradise of rest.
~ John Milton
We live in a complex world. There are many forces calling out, 'Love me.' A sure way to set our guidelines for that which we choose to serve and learn to love is to follow the admonition of Joshua: 'As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.
~ Marvin J. Ashton
Capitalism was taken away from my life. To maintain this hair, I cannot invest in the system. Not a cent. I live from the powers, like Daniel, like Joshua. I live like Jesus Christ. I live spirit, because I am spirit. If I live in spirit, I have to walk in spirit.
~ Unknown
the prostitute Rahab helps Israelite spies and earns protection from the destruction of the city: God knocks its walls flat as Joshua's army marches outside, blowing trumpets and shouting. Joshua leads a successful military campaign to clear idol-worshipping people—Hittites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites—from the land.
~ Unknown
So Moses said to Joshua, “Choose some of our men and go out to fight the Amalekites. Tomorrow I will stand on the hilltop with the staff of God in my hand.”
~ Exodus 17:9