Quotes about Dust

In the midst of life we are in death, earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust, in sure and certain hope of the Resurrection.

They will lick the dust like a snake, like reptiles slithering on the ground. They will crawl from their holes in the presence of the LORD our God; they will tremble in fear of You.

Dust we are, and to dust we shall return. But God can do new things with dust.

Remember the root word of humble and human is the same: humus: earth. We are dust. We are created; it is God who made us and not we ourselves. But we were made to be co-creators with our maker.

My first inclination is to gush about the book hoard. The library is an amalgamation of the generations of residents in this house. The dust of their reading lives has been left behind like sedimentary layers of sandstone, year upon year, decade upon decade. New books and old ones that probably haven't been touched in a century.

Then he is to take some holy water in a clay jar and put some of the dust from the tabernacle floor into the water.

The LORD will turn the rain of your land into dust and powder; it will descend on you from the sky until you are destroyed.

He (man) is both dust of earth and breath of God.

You return man to dust, saying, “Return, O sons of mortals.”

The high-walled fortress will be brought down, cast to the ground, into the dust.

By the sweat of your brow you will eat your bread, until you return to the ground—because out of it were you taken. For dust you are, and to dust you shall return.”

Dust on gold doesn't change the nature of gold.