Quotes about Spirituality

When they had gathered at Mizpah, they drew water and poured it out before the LORD. On that day they fasted, and there they confessed, “We have sinned against the LORD.” And Samuel judged the Israelites at Mizpah.

And when Saul had finished prophesying, he went up to the high place.

But the LORD said to Samuel, “Do not consider his appearance or height, for I have rejected him; the LORD does not see as man does. For man sees the outward appearance, but the LORD sees the heart.”

He inquired of the LORD, but the LORD did not answer him by dreams or Urim or prophets.

Then David got up from the ground, washed and anointed himself, changed his clothes, and went into the house of the LORD and worshiped. Then he went to his own house, and at his request they set food before him, and he ate.

The people, however, were still sacrificing on the high places because a house for the Name of the LORD had not yet been built.

He also had narrow windows framed high in the temple.

The high places were not removed, but Asa’s heart was fully devoted to the LORD all his days.

Then a revelation from the LORD came to Elijah:

So Ahab went up to eat and drink. But Elijah climbed to the summit of Carmel, bent down on the ground, and put his face between his knees.

After the earthquake there was a fire, but the LORD was not in the fire. And after the fire came a still, small voice.

And Jehoshaphat walked in all the ways of his father Asa; he did not turn away from them, but did what was right in the eyes of the LORD. The high places, however, were not removed; the people still sacrificed and burned incense on the high places.