Quotes about Plumb line

I want my inner truth to be the plumb line for the choices I make about my life - about the work that I do and how I do it, about the relationships I enter into and how I conduct them.

— Parker Palmer

This is what He showed me: Behold, the Lord was standing by a wall true to plumb, with a plumb line in His hand.

— Amos 7:7

“Amos, what do you see?” asked the LORD. “A plumb line,” I replied. “Behold,” said the Lord, “I am setting a plumb line among My people Israel; I will no longer spare them:

— Amos 7:8

For who has despised the day of small things? But these seven eyes of the LORD, which scan the whole earth, will rejoice when they see the plumb line in the hand of Zerubbabel.”

— Zechariah 4:10

God's written Word is the plumb line for our lives as we walk daily with him (Amos 7:7; Rev. 22:18—19; Deut. 4:2).

— Henry Blackaby