Quotes About Israelites

#1. The spirit of complaint is born out of an unwillingness to trust God with today.
Like the Israelites, it means you are spending your time looking back toward Egypt or wishing for the future all the while missing what God is doing right now.

Priscilla Shirer

#2. Treat them like native-born Israelites, and love them as you love yourself. Remember that you were once foreigners living in the land of Egypt. I am the Lord your God. - Leviticus 19:34

Gary Chapman

#3. Once traveling, it's remarkable how quickly faith erodes. It starts to look like something else
ignorance, for example. Same thing happened to the Israelites. Sure it's weak, but sometimes you'd rather just have a map.

Leif Enger

#4. O what a blessing is Sunday, interposed between the waves of worldly business like the divine path of the Israelites through the sea.

Samuel Wilberforce

#5. MANNA, n. A food miraculously given to the Israelites in the wilderness. When it was no longer supplied to them they settled down and tilled the soil, fertilizing it, as a rule, with the bodies of the original occupants.

Ambrose Bierce

#6. God chose to set his love on the Israelites not because of any merit in them but solely because of mercy in him.

David Platt

#7. Memory relates to ethics as well as to spirituality (the distinction between ethics and spirituality is a Western one and does more harm than good). Memory places obligations upon you. The Israelites were to remember their experience of servitude in Egypt, and treat their servants accordingly.

John E. Goldingay

#8. The Israelites' slavery in Egypt is the equivalent of our slavery to sin. God sent Moses to deliver them from bondage, and He sent Jesus Christ to set us free.

Joyce Meyer

#9. Egypt: Where the Israelites would still be if Moses had been a bureaucrat.

Laurence J. Peter

#10. We need to discover all over again that worship is natural to the Christian, as it was to the godly Israelites who wrote the psalms, and that the habit of celebrating the greatness and graciousness of God yields an endless flow of thankfulness, joy, and zeal.

J.I. Packer

#11. And yet you see the weakness of external evidence-and outward miracles; they were not sufficient to make true believers, or to make the Israelites believe that Jesus was their promised Messiah.

Elias Hicks

#12. Bible scholars estimate that there were about 2.5 million Israelites who left Egypt healed, healthy and whole. That was and still is God's will for His people today - all healed, healthy and whole.

Joseph Prince

#13. I heard the main reason the Israelites spent forty years wandering in the desert looking for the Promised Land was because Moses refused to ask directions.

Mary Connealy

#14. Fate is like the relationship between the strong and the weak, don't you think? Look at religion, for example. The Israelites, who worshipped Jehovah - why were they afraid of him? Because their god was powerful, that's why. Everyone who believes in gods fears them to some extent.

Fuminori Nakamura

#15. Holy Father, forgive me for grumbling. I know I've sounded just like the Israelites. I long to dwell not on the If Onlys but on You. Make me wise like the old woodcutter - content with what I know, not perturbed by what I don't know.

Linda Dillow

#16. Reasonable of you, John. Reasonable of you, Dick. No two Israelites had ever pattered so goyischely.

Adam Levin

#17. I tell you, that switch from B.C. to A.D. must have driven people nuts. I bet more than a few Israelites missed their dental appointments.

Tom Robbins

#18. Get the right perspective. When Goliath came against the Israelites, the soldiers all thought, "He is so big. We can never kill him." David looked at the same giant and thought, "He is so big. I can't miss."

Russell Johnston

#19. Does not the passage of Moses and the Israelites into the Holy Land yield incomparably more poetic variety than the voyages of Ulysses or Aeneas?

Abraham Cowley

#20. We were learning what "living on faith" really means, and God was providing for us very much like he provided for the Israelites in the desert - just the basics, just enough, and just in time.

Shelley Hitz

#21. God desires that Christians would avoid repeating the disobedient mistakes of the Israelites.

Sunday Adelaja

#22. The Law was not how Israelites achieved salvation - it was how they showed loyalty to the God they believed in.

Michael S. Heiser

#23. Whatever else the ancient Israelites believed about their God, he was not a tame God.

N. T. Wright

#24. God opens doors for you, but do not expect Him to walk through them for you. He delivered the Israelites from Egypt, but they were still required to walk to the Promised Land. They did not need to pray for a miracle, the miracle was in their feet.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#25. Israelites, Christians and Muslims profess immortality, but the veneration they render this world proves they believe only in it, since they destine all other worlds, in infinite number, to be its reward or punishment.

Jorge Luis Borges

#26. Reading the Bible responsibly and respectfully today means learning what it meant for ancient Israelites to talk about God the way they did, and not pushing alien expectations onto texts written long ago and far away.

Peter Enns

#27. Go! This man is the agent I have chosen to carry my name before Gentiles, kings, and Israelites.16I will show him how much he must suffer for the sake of my name.

Anonymous

#28. People in the United States, including me, are naturally inclined to support Israel. I'm an evangelical Christian who teaches the Bible every Sunday at my church. I teach half the Old Testament and half the New Testament. We Americans identify the Hebrews, the Israelites, with ourselves.

Jimmy Carter

#29. Moses, who said to the Israelites, Stop calling me Charlton! Never got a dinner!

Red Buttons

#30. God wants every Christian to avoid and not repeat the mistakes of the Israelites

Sunday Adelaja

#31. When you wake up to kingdom realities, you find that you are tracing the steps of both the Israelites and Jesus himself into the wilderness ... The wilderness is the place where God meets his people, Satan attacks, and kingdom allegiances are revealed. [Ed Welch, Running Scared, 118]

Edward T. Welch

#32. Do not take advantage of foreigners who live among you in your land. 34 Treat them like native-born Israelites, and love them as you love yourself. Remember that you were once foreigners living in the land of Egypt. I am the LORD your God.

Anonymous

#33. Can any one deny that the old Israelites conceived Jahveh not only in the image of a man, but in that of a changeable, irritable, and, occasionally, violent man?

Thomas Henry Huxley

#34. He could have a thousand faults, but I do not blame anyone in particular and I despise brutality with which the Nazis acted against Israelites; but the fault is not only of Hitler, but a group of high-ranked dignitaries.

Augusto Pinochet

#35. Russia contains one fourth of the inhabitants of all Europe, and one half of the entire number of Israelites.

Isaac Mayer Wise

#36. Jews are non-Israelites and YHWH is the god of the non-Semitic Jews, and was NOT The God of the Semitic Israelites.

Ibrahim Ibrahim

#37. I don't believe in the war god of the Israelites. He's a bogeyman. Jesus preached the golden rule, by and large.

Terry Pratchett

#38. God didn't give Moses ten fortune cookies in a to-go box. God didn't lead the Israelites through the wilderness with a neon all-you-can-eat sign. And God doesn't speak to people in bathrooms, public or otherwise.

Geoffrey Wood

#39. If Moses had operated through committees the Israelites never would have got across the Red Sea.

William Booth

#40. If one find lost property in a locality where the majority are Israelites, he is bound to proclaim it; but he is not bound to do so if the majority be Gentiles.' -- Bava Metzia , fol 24, col. 1"

-- Hebraic Literature, page 31

Maurice H. Harris

#41. Moses warned them [Israelites] that the leading spiritual danger they would face on entering the [promise] land would be forgetting the Lord. What adversity would not do, prosperity and satisfaction could. They were to be on their guard against spiritual lethargy.

Max Anders

#42. Theological error is the most pernicious of errors; it strikes at man's center and separates him from his Creator and Redeemer. God insisted not only that Israelites should judge their own hearts and cast aside falsehood about Him but that they should also confront it wherever it emerged.

Max Anders

#43. The Hebrew Bible is the supreme example of that rarest of phenomena, a national literature of self-criticism. Other ancient civilisations recorded their victories. The Israelites recorded their failures. It is what the Mosaic and prophetic books are about.

Jonathan Sacks

#44. There was nothing then but the revelation of the spirit-of God that could make any of the Israelites understand and believe that he was their proper Messiah.

Elias Hicks

#45. the finding of a cargo of whisky was, in a sense, like the finding by the Israelites of manna in the wilderness. And

Alexander McCall Smith

#46. What we need is what the ancient Israelites called hochma - the science of the heart ... the capacity to see, to feel, and then to act as if the future depended on you. Believe me, it does.

Bill Moyers

#47. Farther I could find it in my heart to wish that you had been at the head of a hundred thousand Israelites ... & marching with them into Judea & making a conquest of that country & restoring your nation to the dominion of it. For I really wish the Jews again in Judea an independent nation.

John Adams

#48. In the same proportion Russia is the misfortune of Europe and the Israelites.

Isaac Mayer Wise

#49. We find hope in a hostile place when we focus on the goodness of God as revealed in His promises. In other words, hope and security come when we - like the Israelites - acknowledge God's love for us.

Elizabeth George

#50. The Israelites frequently forsook God, and he as frequently forsook them. But when they repented and returned to him, he remembered his covenant and delivered them from their distresses.

Adoniram Judson

#51. Today's events are reminiscent of the Old Testament story of how the Israelites demanded a king over God's objection. They believed that a king would give them peace and security. The results proved otherwise.

Ron Paul

#52. Don't complain. The Israelites wasted forty years murmuring and complaining in the wilderness, when they could have just obeyed God and entered into their Promised Land.

Joyce Meyer

#53. God gave the Israelites the Promised Land but told them they'd have to take what was theirs in fierce battle.

Beth Moore

#54. It is quite exhilarating to speak about a God who has an incredible bias, a notorious bias in favor of the downtrodden. You look at Exodus and the Israelites' escape from a bottomless pit. God is not evenhanded. God is biased up to his eyebrows.

Desmond Tutu