Quotes about Lay
When the donkey saw the angel of the LORD, she lay down under Balaam, and he became furious and beat her with his staff.
— Numbers 22:27
Then Michal took a household idol and laid it in the bed, placed some goat hair on its head, and covered it with a garment.
— 1 Samuel 19:13
And the king commanded them to quarry large, costly stones to lay the foundation of the temple with dressed stones.
— 1 Kings 5:17
Moreover, stand in the Holy Place by the divisions of the families of your kinsmen the lay people, and by the divisions of the families of the Levites.
— 2 Chronicles 35:5
My strength is dried up like a potsherd, and my tongue sticks to the roof of my mouth. You lay me in the dust of death.
— Psalm 22:15
As you lay on your bed, O king, your thoughts turned to the future, and the Revealer of Mysteries made known to you what will happen.
— Daniel 2:29
The sky looks ever so deep when you lay down on your back in the moonshine; I never knowed it before.
— Mark Twain
Priests focus on the spiritual. As a lay person I could show people how to be good Catholics in the world.
— Bo Sanchez
At both ends of life man needed nourishment: a breast - a shrine. Something to lay himself beside when no one wanted him further, and shoot a bullet into his head.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
Of little worth as life is when we misuse it, it is worth that effort. It would cost nothing to lay down if it were not.
— Charles Dickens
In 1965, in the Council's "Decree on the Ministry and Life of Priests" (Pres-byterorum ordinis, 10), the Church proposed a new institutional form, called the "personal prelature." Such an institution could accommodate both clergy and lay members cooperating to accomplish specific pastoral tasks.
— Scott Hahn
And long there he lay, an image of the splendour of the Kings of Men in glory undimmed before the breaking of the world.
— JRR Tolkien