Quotes about Samuel

Moses and Aaron were among His priests; Samuel was among those who called on His name. They called to the LORD and He answered.

Then the LORD said to me: “Even if Moses and Samuel should stand before Me, My heart would not go out to this people. Send them from My presence, and let them go.

Indeed, all the prophets from Samuel on, as many as have spoken, have proclaimed these days.

All this took about 450 years. After this, God gave them judges until the time of Samuel the prophet.

As the faculty of writing has chiefly been a masculine endowment the reproach of making the world miserable has always been thrown upon the women.

My mother had heard the story of Hannah and Samuel, so she prayed that if God would give her a son, she would give that son to God. That was a perfectly appropriate thing for her to do, but as I observe, she did not have to tell me she had made such a promise. In particular, she did not have to tell me when I was six.

When the prophet Samuel was a young boy, Eli the priest gave him unerring advice on listening for the voice of God. It is a simple but profound prayer: "Speak, LORD, for Your servant hears" (1 Sam. 3:9). When we get up out of bed in the morning, among our first thoughts should be this: Lord, speak to me. I'm listening. I want to hear your voice.

Melancholy, indeed, should be diverted by every means but drinking.

The next time you feel rejection's sting, remember God's words to Samuel: "It is not you they have rejected, but they have rejected me." (1 Sam. 8:7)

All the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil show it evidently to be a great evil.

If ye were not Christ's wheat, appointed to be bread in His house, He would not grind you.

The Lord called Samuel: and he answered, Here am I.