Quotes about Reflection
You drink wine by the bowlful and anoint yourselves with the finest oils, but you fail to grieve over the ruin of Joseph.
— Amos 6:6
At this, I said, ‘I have been banished from Your sight; yet I will look once more toward Your holy temple.’
— Jonah 2:4
As my life was fading away, I remembered the LORD. My prayer went up to You, to Your holy temple.
— Jonah 2:7
Then Jonah left the city and sat down east of it, where he made himself a shelter and sat in its shade to see what would happen to the city.
— Jonah 4:5
This is a prayer of Habakkuk the prophet, according to Shigionoth:
— Habakkuk 3:1
“Is it a time for you yourselves to live in your paneled houses, while this house lies in ruins?”
— Haggai 1:4
Now this is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Consider carefully your ways.
— Haggai 1:5
This is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Consider carefully your ways.
— Haggai 1:7
‘Who is left among you who saw this house in its former glory? How does it look to you now? Does it not appear to you like nothing in comparison?’
— Haggai 2:3
Now consider carefully from this day forward: Before one stone was placed on another in the temple of the LORD,
— Haggai 2:15
“Ask all the people of the land and the priests, ‘When you fasted and mourned in the fifth and seventh months for these seventy years, was it really for Me that you fasted?
— Zechariah 7:5
“Your words against Me have been harsh,” says the LORD. “Yet you ask, ‘What have we spoken against You?’
— Malachi 3:13