Quotes about Material

the heart can be captured or ruled by only two things. I'll use Paul's terms. Your heart is always living under the rule of "things that are above" or "things that are on earth.

Wine is like the incarnation--it is both divine and human

Expressed otherwise in terms of the principle of context—a principle essential for sound understanding of any text but preeminently and uniquely so for Scripture—every unit of biblical material, however quantified, is qualified by a pattern of contexts relative to itself.

Go and get your own straw wherever you can find it; but your workload will in no way be reduced.’”

Make loops of blue material on the edge of the end curtain in the first set, and do the same for the end curtain in the second set.

He made loops of blue material on the edge of the end curtain in the first set, and also on the end curtain in the second set.

You are to keep My statutes. You shall not crossbreed two different kinds of livestock; you shall not sow your fields with two kinds of seed; and you shall not wear clothing made of two kinds of material.

Do not wear clothes of wool and linen woven together.

the weight of gold for each table of showbread, and of silver for the silver tables;

Neither gold nor crystal can compare to it, nor jewels of fine gold be exchanged for it.

He regards iron as straw and bronze as rotten wood.

They were pleased to do it, and indeed they owe it to them. For if the Gentiles have shared in their spiritual blessings, they are obligated to minister to them with material blessings.