Quotes about Closed
For this people’s heart has grown callous; they hardly hear with their ears, and they have closed their eyes. Otherwise they might see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their hearts, and turn, and I would heal them.’
— Acts 28:27
For a few moments, imagine your life as a house. How many rooms have you invited Me to live in? How many rooms have closed doors? I want to dwell in all of you.
— Sarah Young
We interpret Jesus through our brokenness. A painful truth, but also a hopeful truth. Maybe we can open up the doors and windows we didn't know we closed.
— John Eldredge
When the prince makes a freewill offering to the LORD, whether a burnt offering or a peace offering, the gate facing east must be opened for him. He is to offer his burnt offering or peace offering just as he does on the Sabbath day. Then he shall go out, and the gate must be closed after he goes out.
— Ezekiel 46:12
They went down alive into Sheol with all they owned. The earth closed over them, and they vanished from the assembly.
— Numbers 16:33
Make the hearts of this people calloused; deafen their ears and close their eyes. Otherwise they might see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their hearts, and turn and be healed.”
— Isaiah 6:10
When the evening shadows began to fall on the gates of Jerusalem, just before the Sabbath, I ordered that the gates be shut and not opened until after the Sabbath. I posted some of my servants at the gates so that no load could enter on the Sabbath day.
— Nehemiah 13:19
They do not comprehend or discern, for He has shut their eyes so they cannot see and closed their minds so they cannot understand.
— Isaiah 44:18
Anyone who enters the house during any of the days that it is closed up will be unclean until evening.
— Leviticus 14:46
But their minds were closed. For to this day the same veil remains at the reading of the old covenant. It has not been lifted, because only in Christ can it be removed.
— 2 Corinthians 3:14
They have closed their callous hearts; their mouths speak with arrogance.
— Psalm 17:10
Just as words lose their power when they are not born out of silence, so openness loses its meaning when there is no ability to be closed.
— Henri Nouwen