Top 81 Abram Quotes
#1. 18And t Melchizedek king of Salem brought out bread and wine. (He was u priest of v God Most High.) 19And he blessed him and said, w Blessed be Abram by God Most High, x Possessor [2] of heaven and earth; 20 and blessed be God Most High, who has delivered your enemies into your hand!
Anonymous
#2. 18 So that day Jehovah made this covenant with Abram: "I have given this land to your descendants from the Wadi-el-Arish[*] to the Euphrates River. 19-21 And I give to them these nations: Kenites, Kenizzites, Kadmonites, Hittites, Perizzites, Rephaim, Amorites, Canaanites, Girgashites, Jebusites.
Anonymous
#3. Do you think that Asian girl over there is pretty? I ask Abram, testing him, wondering if I'm really his type, or if I'm just his type until that rare breed of slutty Asian drops into his lap.
Only when she lets me cheat off of her, he answers.
Jay Clark
#4. Abram, having failed in Genesis 13, comes through with flying colors in this battle of faith because he aligns himself with God, and he refuses to allow his heart to be compromised by the possibility of taking the riches that this world can offer.
Ligon Duncan
#5. Abram - Ibrahim, in the Arabic spelling - was the first to worship Allah, the one God, rather than the stars, the moon, or the sun.
Susan Wise Bauer
#6. But if Abram bore his continual wanderings patiently, our fastidiousness is utterly inexcusable, when we murmur against God, if he does not grant us a quiet nest.
John Calvin
#7. And he blessed him and said: "Blessed [favored with blessings, made blissful, joyful] be Abram of God Most High, Possessor [and Maker] of heaven and earth" (Genesis 14:19).
John Crowder
#10. God wanted Abram to be his friend, and friends trust each other, and you can't learn to trust someone without a little risk and uncertainty and vulnerability.
John Ortberg
#11. And when Abram heard that his brother was taken captive, he armed his trained servants, born in his own house, three hundred and eighteen, and pursued them unto
Anonymous
#12. I hold out my fist and knock on the glass. I watch Abram's brain process the sound, probably doesn't hear it very often unless he's got a late-night side-skank I'm unaware of, and he better not.
Jay Clark
#13. No matter the deviation, all things come full circle. You begin and end your journey in the same place, but with a different set of eyes. - Abram
Jennifer DeLucy
#14. She told her father Mr. Abram Colhard that she did not like it at all being one being living then. He never said anything. She was afraid then, she was one needing charming stories and happy telling of them and not having that thing she was always trembling.
Gertrude Stein
#15. 4 So Abram went, as the Lord had told him, and Lot went with him. Abram was 75 years old when he left Haran. 5 He
Anonymous
#16. Abram: .. One [Sentient] often believes it best to choose the higher path over the companionship of another. But, this circumstance draws to mind a point which Seers might forget to easily.
Lily: What's that?
Abram: That Love is the higher path
Jennifer DeLucy
#17. He [Abram] believes that the PRESENT is the only real thing and everything else is an illusion
a distraction
Jennifer DeLucy
#18. Therefore by the example of Abram, entire self-renunciation is enjoined, that we may live and die to God alone.
John Calvin
#19. Lily, look and see Narcissus's true reflection ... - Abram, Seers of Light
Jennifer DeLucy
#20. O father Abram, what these Christians are, Whose own hard dealing teaches them suspect The thoughts of others!
William Shakespeare
#21. There are innumerable paths one may choose in this life- some that, at first, appear flawed. Yet, if lived with love and honesty, they will always render the greatest fruit. They will serve as a lesson to us all. - Abram
Jennifer DeLucy
#22. When God changed someone's name in Scripture, He changed their destiny: Abram to Abraham, Jacob to Israel, Simon to Peter.
Peter Kreeft
#23. As nonhuman animals, plants, and even 'inanimate' rivers once spoke to our oral ancestors, so the ostensibly "inert" letters on the page now speak to us! This is a form of animism that we take for granted, but it is animism nonetheless - as mysterious as a talking stone.
David Abram
#24. He sure does fall asleep a lot. Must be the Paxil. he takes his pill and a half hour later it's like he's roofied himself.
Jay Clark
#25. The simple truth is ordinary, open and shared by all.
Cheryl Abram
#26. Pharmaceutical companies are very annoyed with niacin because their products have to compete with it. Some of their cholesterol-lowering drugs cost up to $150 a month while niacin costs about $10.
Abram Hoffer
#27. There are so many unsung heroines and heroes at this broken moment in our collective story, so many courageous persons who, unbeknownst to themselves, are holding together the world by their resolute love or contagious joy. Although I do not know your names, I can feel you out there.
David Abram
#28. I pretended not to be surprised when she showed up at my sliding door last night. Between the dog and me? I thought she was either a super-dedicated UPS guy or a polite serial killer.
Jay Clark
#29. If we speak of things as inert or inanimate objects, we deny their ability to actively engage and interact with us - we foreclose their capacity to reciprocate our attentions, to draw us into silent dialogue, to inform and instruct us.
David Abram
#30. The friendship between my hand and this stone enacts an ancient and irrefutable eros, the kindredness of matter with itself.
David Abram
#31. A land without ruins is a land without memories - a land without memories is a land without history.
Abram Joseph Ryan
#32. We like to assume that language is a purely human property, our exclusive possession, and that everything else is basically mute.
David Abram
#33. So the man told you the truth, and now you're surprised to discover he didn't lie.
Penny Reid
#34. Almost every major turning point in the history of mankind was a side-effect of totally unrelated intentions.
Abram Gitspof
#35. If the patient has been to more than four physicians, nutrition is probably the medical answer.
Abram Hoffer
#36. I would far rather burn my whole book, than that he or any other man should think i behaved in a paltry manner (Charles Darwin)
Abram Kardiner
#37. It's weird, you know, the way so many people accept the notion that stone is inanimate, that rock doesn't move. I mean, really, this here cliff moves me every time that I see it.
David Abram
#39. Does the human intellect, or "reason," really spring us free from our inherence in the depths of this wild proliferation of forms? Or on the contrary, is the human intellect rooted in, and secretly borne by, our forgotten contact with the multiple nonhuman shapes that surround us on every hand?
David Abram
#40. is the mountain that lends its gregarious power to the multiple elements of this place.
David Abram
#41. For magicians -- whether modern entertainers or indigenous, tribal sorcerers -- have in common the fact that they work with the malleable texture of perception.
David Abram
#42. I tried to close my ears to the strange worshipful chanting and fix my mind on God, but the Egyptians' idolatry weighed down my weary shoulders and brought tears to my closed eyes.
Kristen Reed
#43. Sensory perception is the silken web that binds our separate nervous systems into the encompassing ecosystem.
David Abram
#44. We are too frightened of shadows. We cannot abide our vulnerability, our utter dependence upon a world that can eat us. Vast in its analytic and inventive power, modern humanity is crippled by a fear of its own animality, and of the animate earth that sustains us.
David Abram
#45. For schizophrenia, the recovery rate with drug therapy is under 15%. With nutritional therapy, the recovery rate is 80%.
Abram Hoffer
#46. A Belief in Anything is a Belief in Nothing.
Cheryl Abram
#47. The goal of a great democracy should be fulfillment, not ease. It should be adequacy, not serenity.
Abram L. Sachar
#49. I like this documentary, starring her in captivity, better.
Jay Clark
#50. Like an airplane, an oven, or an elevator, Faebook is a tool that can make life's To-Dos fun and easy.
Carolyn Abram
#51. For a brief moment the previous day, I'd felt a flicker of kinship with him because of my own barrenness, but he brandished his brokenness like a sword, ready to cut anyone who displeased him because someone in Pharaoh's household had once cut him.
Kristen Reed
#52. The death takes a moment and life lasts forever. Why spend eternity worried about a singularity?
Abram Gitspof
#53. What we say has such a profound influence upon what we see, and hear, and taste of the world!
David Abram
#54. To describe the animate life of particular things is simply the most precise and parsimonious way to articulate the things as we spontaneously experience them, prior to all our conceptualizations and definitions.
David Abram
#55. One of these days, she'll let me perform a favor for her without calculating what she owes me, which is always going to be nothing. Except for maybe a kiss, if our relationship ever reaches that level - pinnacle? - where favors can be repaid sexually (in a respectful manner).
Jay Clark
#56. I only subpoena folks for jury duty that I know will be fair...
Paul Henry Abram
#57. One's relation to one's house, in other words, is hardly a relation between a pure subject and a pure object - between an active intelligence, or mind, and a purely passive chunk of matter.
David Abram
#58. We have inherited new difficulties because we have inherited more privileges.
Abram L. Sachar
#59. Along with the other animals, the stones, the trees, and the clouds, we ourselves are characters within a huge story that is visibly unfolding all around us, participants within the vast imagination, or Dreaming, of the world.
David Abram
#60. I'm not sure what Essiac does to extend cancer survival, and for all we know it may not have this effect. On the other hand, it's not toxic and my patients have reported feeling good while taking it, so why not support them?
Abram Hoffer
#61. Happiness is the compass of human soul. If we feel nothing, it means we are lost.
Abram Gitspof
#62. Freedom of choice comes at the price of intermittent insanity.
Abram Gitspof
#63. Other animals, in a constant and mostly unmediated relation with their sensory surroundings, think with the whole of their bodies.
David Abram
#64. If you find that you're going through hell, keep moving. You will get to the end eventually.
Kimberly Brouillette
#65. Humans are tuned for relationship. The eyes, the skin, the tongue, ears, and nostrils-all are gates where our body receives the nourishment of otherness.
David Abram
#66. Dull people don't write interesting books. But they sure as hell can write them thick and fast.
Abram Gitspof
#67. Only as the written text began to speak would the voices of the forest, and of the river, begin to fade. And only then would language loosen its ancient association with the invisible breath, the spirit sever itself from the wind, the psyche dissociate itself from the environing air.
David Abram
#68. The world we experience with our unaided senses is fluid and animate, shifting and transforming in response to our own shifts of position and of mood.
David Abram
#69. Society is constituted by the mental interaction of individuals and exists wherever two or three individuals have reciprocal conscious relations to each other.
Charles Abram Ellwood
#70. Breathing involves a continual oscillation between exhaling and inhaling, offering ourselves to the world at one moment and drawing the world into ourselves at the next ...
David Abram
#71. Before you shoot the messenger, it helps to get the message first.
Abram Gitspof
#72. We are human only in contact, and conviviality, with what is not human.
David Abram
#73. Some reckon their age by years, Some measure their life by art; But some tell their days by the flow of their tears And their lives by the moans of their hearts.
Abram Joseph Ryan
#74. The secret of the true love of work is the hope of success in that work; not for the money reward, for the time spent, or for the skill exercised, but for the successful result in the accomplishment of the work itself.
Sidney Abram Weltmer
#75. Do we weep for the heroes who died for us, Who living were true and tried for us, And dying sleep side by side for us; The martyr band That hallowed our land With the blood they shed in a tide for us?
Abram Joseph Ryan
#76. We cannot experience any entity in its totality, because we are not pure, disembodied minds, but are palpable bodies with our own opacities and limits.
David Abram
#77. Only by affirming the animateness of perceived things do we allow our words to emerge directly from the depths of our ongoing reciprocity with the world.
David Abram
#78. It is the responsibility of good people to rise against bad rulers.
Abram Gitspof
#79. Such reciprocity is the very structure of perception. We experience the sensuous world only by rendering ourselves vulnerable to that world. Sensory perception is this ongoing interweavement: the terrain enters into us only to the extent that we allow ourselves to be taken up within that terrain.
David Abram
#80. A fool holding his own in a debate is sure sign that the topic drifted into metaphysical waters.
Abram Gitspof
#81. It was a though we'd been living for a year in a dense grove of old trees, a cluster of firs, each with its own rhythm and character, from whom our bodies had drawn not just shelter but perhaps even a kind of guidance as we grew into a family.
David Abram
