Quotes about Sacred
On the fourth day, in the house of our God, we weighed out the silver and gold and sacred articles into the hand of Meremoth son of Uriah, the priest. Eleazar son of Phinehas was with him, along with the Levites Jozabad son of Jeshua and Noadiah son of Binnui.
— Ezra 8:33
Every relationship carries within its center a holy vacancy, a space that is for the first Love, God alone.
— Henri Nouwen
O Lord, explore down to the deepest springs of my spirit where Thy Spirit works, and read my deepest prayers I cannot pray in expression. Lord, touch my body, it is Thy temple, shine out in and through it, O Lord.
— Oswald Chambers
If anyone eats a sacred offering in error, he must add a fifth to its value and give the sacred offering to the priest.
— Leviticus 22:14
There is nothing so important in the family as the sacred quality of the meal.
— Henri Nouwen
The diversity we see in the Bible reflects the inevitably changing circumstances of the biblical writers across the centuries as they grappled with their sacred yet ancient and ambiguous tradition.
— Peter Enns
And the LORD said to him, “Bring Me a heifer, a goat, and a ram, each three years old, along with a turtledove and a young pigeon.”
— Genesis 15:9
Your Name is holy. May Your Name be worshiped and honored by Your people everywhere. May our lives in no way bring disrespect or dishonor to your great Name. And may all peoples of the earth come to revere Your sacred Name.
— Nancy Leigh DeMoss
But if the raw flesh changes and turns white, he must go to the priest.
— Leviticus 13:16
If we are children of God, we have a tremendous treasure in nature and will realize that it is holy and sacred. We will see God reaching out to us in every wind that blows, every sunrise and sunset, every cloud in the sky, every flower that blooms, and every leaf that fades, if we will only begin to use our starved imagination to visualize it.
— Oswald Chambers
And he placed the cherubim inside the innermost room of the temple. Since their wings were spread out, the wing of the first cherub touched one wall, while the wing of the second cherub touched the other wall, and in the middle of the room their wingtips touched.
— 1 Kings 6:27
The tablets were the work of God, and the writing was the writing of God, engraved on the tablets.
— Exodus 32:16