Quotes About Lévi

love is nothing but a desire and an enjoyment,it is mortal.

History is not a novel that unfolds according to established rules. But it is also not a book, rejoined Isak Levi, that can be leafed through now from the beginning, then from the end.

Levi was smiling. He kicked her chair again.

The Call to Discipleship And as he passed by he saw Levi, the son of Alpæus, sitting at the place of toll, and he saith unto him, Follow me. And he arose and followed him. (Mark 2.14) THE CALL goes forth, and is at once followed by the response of obedience. The response of the disciples is an act of obedience, not a confession of faith in Jesus. How could the call immediately evoke obedience?

My studies had taught me that Israel did have a divinely ordained royal line, but it sprang from David and the tribe of Judah, not Levi.

Vincent gave him the twenty. "You don't think you might be looking for trouble?" Levi thanked Vincent for the loan, but laughed at the question. "Life is trouble, brother. You've got to fight for what you want.

Levi's station in life was the receipt of custom; and Peter's, the shore of Galilee; and Paul's, the antechambers of the High- Priest, which "station in life" each had to leave, with brief notice.

Objects are what matter. Only they carry the evidence that throughout the centuries something really happened among human beings.

You know, in some ways, the celibacy tradition goes back to the tribe of Levi and, certainly, sacrifice and the notion of sacrifice. In the Old Testament, the shedding of blood was for a man to perform. It was not for the woman, who gave life.

Did you ever read Carlo Levi?" "No." "You should—if you like Tolstoy. He wrote beautifully about Italian peasants. My people, once. He had a soul like Tolstoy. 'The future has an ancient heart.' I think I have that right.

That has nothing to do with it. Abraham had no desire to leave his homeland, but God commanded him, and he had no choice but to go. Others of our family have also been chosen when they did not expect it. God has reached out and touched them and put them in directions they never dreamed. You, I think, will be one of these men, Moses of the tribe of Levi!

Scrivendo trovavo breve pace e mi sentivo ridiventare un uomo, uno come tutti, nè martire nè infame nè santo, uno di quelli che si fanno una famiglia, e guardano al futuro anzichè al passato. - Il sistema periodico

Levi's motives were never quite as obvious. There was an Old Testament ruthlessness about him, Shambler thought, something inscrutably tribal at the root.

So we see according to God's command, almond flowers blossomed on Aaron's staff representing the tribe of Levi amongst the twelve tribes who had placed their staffs; through this it proved to them that the priesthood was given to the house of Aaron by God (Numbers 17:1-10). When Aaron died at the age of 123

The sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.

Now a man of the house of Levi married a daughter of Levi,

These were the names of the sons of Levi according to their records: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari. Levi lived 137 years.

The sons of Kohath were Amram, Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel. Kohath lived 133 years.

“Do not number the tribe of Levi in the census with the other Israelites.

“Bring the tribe of Levi and present them to Aaron the priest to assist him.

These were the sons of Levi by name: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.

and tomorrow you are to place fire and incense in them in the presence of the LORD. Then the man the LORD chooses will be the one who is holy. It is you sons of Levi who have taken too much upon yourselves!”

and write Aaronís name on the staff of Levi, because there must be one staff for the head of each tribe.

The next day Moses entered the Tent of the Testimony and saw that Aaronís staff, representing the house of Levi, had sprouted, put forth buds, blossomed, and produced almonds.