please leave me your favorite quote from the bible. I would prefer one about love or family plz
2007-03-18 18:59:03 · 9 answers · asked by Melvina 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
"and I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have the power...to grasp, how wide, how long, how high and how deep is the love of Christ.. and to know that this love surpasses knowledge"
ephesians 3:17-19
2007-03-18 19:07:58 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I Corinthians 13
13:1 Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.
13:2 And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing.
13:3 And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing.
13:4 Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,
13:5 Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil;
13:6 Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth;
13:7 Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.
13:8 Charity never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away.
13:9 For we know in part, and we prophesy in part.
13:10 But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away.
13:11 When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.
13:12 For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.
13:13 And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.
2007-03-19 02:07:05 · answer #2 · answered by akballer 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Dear Melvina,
My favorite bible verse is 1 Samuel 16:7- that says that God does not see as man sees, God looks at the heart.
i would love to send you verses on love and family. Email me with the specific ocassion, etc, and i'll send you some bible verses.
Kindly,
Nickster
2007-03-19 03:19:12 · answer #3 · answered by Nickster 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My favorite scripture is Romans 8:31, 35-39. Especially 38,39 where it says " For I am convinced that neither death nor life nor angels nor governments nor thing now here nor things to come nor powers nor height nor depth nor any other creation will be able to separate us from God's love that is in Christ Jesus our Lord."
Have a nice day. :)
2007-03-19 02:11:43 · answer #4 · answered by shibboleth839505 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Psalms 137:9 "Happy shall he be, that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the stones."
2007-03-19 02:07:20 · answer #5 · answered by Beavis Christ AM 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
1Corinthians13:4,8-love is long suffering and kind,love never fails. Proverbs18:24-there a friend who stick closer than a brother.
2007-03-19 02:12:07 · answer #6 · answered by faith 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
(Luke 14:26) Jesus said, "If any man come to me and hate not his father, his mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple."
That's your family quote right there.
2007-03-19 02:02:12 · answer #7 · answered by Hate Boy! 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They said to him, “Tell us who you are so that we may believe in you.”
He said to them, “You examine the face of heaven and earth, but you have not come to know the one who is in your presence, and you do not know how to examine the present moment.”
(Thomas Saying 91)
“The Psalms are the true garden of the solitary and the Scriptures are
his Paradise. They reveal their secrets to him because, in his extreme
poverty and humility, he has nothing else to live by except their
fruits. For the true solitary the reading of Scripture ceases to be an
‘exercise’ among other exercises, a means of ‘cultivating’ the intellect
or ‘the spiritual life’ or ‘appreciating the liturgy.’ To those who
read Scripture in an academic or aesthetic or merely devotional way the
Bible indeed offers pleasant refreshment and profitable thoughts. But
to learn the inner secrets of the Scriptures we must make them our true
daily bread, find God in them when we are in greatest need — and
usually when we can find Him nowhere else and have nowhere else to
look!”
thomas merton
(THOUGHTS IN SOLITUDE, page 121)
Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they neither toil nor spin, yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. (Matt. 6:28-29)
God desires the smallest degree of purity of conscience in you more than all the works you can perform.
God desires the least degree of obedience and submissiveness more than all those services you think of rendering him.
God values in you the inclination to dryness and suffering for love of him more than all the consolations, spiritual visions, and meditations you could possibly have.
Deny your desires and you will find what your heart longs for. For how do you know if any desire of yours is according to God?
O sweetest love of God, so little known, whoever has found this rich mine is at rest!
Since a double measure of bitterness must follow the doing of your own will, do not do it even though you remain in single bitterness.
The soul that carries within itself the least appetite for worldly things bears more unseemliness and impurity in its journey to God than if it were troubled by all the hideous and annoying temptations and darknesses describable; for, so long as it does not consent to these temptations, a soul thus tried can approach God confidently, by doing the will of His Majesty, who proclaims: Come to me, all you who labor and are heavily burdened, and I will refresh you [Mt. 11:28].
The soul that in aridity and trial submits to the dictates of reason is more pleasing to God than one that does everything with consolation, yet fails in this submission.
God is more pleased by one work, however small, done secretly, without desire that it be known, than a thousand done with the desire that people know of them. Those who work for God with purest love not only care nothing about whether others see their works, but do not even seek that God himself know of them. Such persons would not cease to render God the same services, with the same joy and purity of love, even if God were never to know of these.
The pure and whole work done for God in a pure heart merits a whole kingdom for its owner.
–John of the cross (Sayings of love and light)
2007-03-19 02:21:08 · answer #8 · answered by Br. Benjamin 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"For no greater love has a man than this, that he lay his life down for his friend."
2007-03-19 02:02:12 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋