Quotes About Jacob In The Bible

#1. I'm a gung-ho guy.

Ray Knight

#2. God is erratic, sometimes vindictive, sometimes merciful. The people I was taught were heroes - Jacob or Moses or David - were ambivalent figures, or worse. But that messiness was joyful, and challenging. I loved having a Bible that I could argue with.

David Plotz

#3. As for me, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob are now only the subtlest imaginable essences, which would not stain the morning sky.

Henry David Thoreau

#4. The thirst for knowledge is like a piece of ass you know you shouldn't chase; in the end, you chase it just the same.

George Pelecanos

#5. The love that flows through your heart
purifies not only your own spirit, but the love you share with others.

Caroline Myss

#6. Most of the hits I take come on top of the shoulder pads.

Eric Dickerson

#7. More than most people, the alcoholic leads a double life. He is very much the actor

Bill W.

#8. I always said I wanted to be the best at what I could do. I feel like I can improve.

Joe Mauer

#9. I want you to wrestle with the Bible. Do it. Wrestle until, Jacob-like, you walk with a limp ever after, and you receive the blessing of the Lord.

Sarah Bessey

#10. Nothing but man of all envenomed things, doth work upon itself, with inborn stings.

John Donne

#11. Sanctification is about living in ways that are consistent with what we already are in Christ.

David F. Wells

#12. After Jacob had worked for Laban for seven years, do you know what happened? Laban fooled him and gave him his ugly daughter Leah. So to marry Rachel, Jacob was forced to work another seven years.

So, you see, children, the Bible clearly teaches us you can never trust an employer.

Joseph Stein

#13. The opportunity for greater courage comes in the most ordinary of moments.

Mary Anne Radmacher

#14. Be generous but not extravagant, be frugal but not miserly.

Anonymous

#15. I can't feel exactly happy ... Nobody could that has red hair

L.M. Montgomery

#16. Finding a psychic on Google probably wasn't the most reputable way of sourcing contact with God,

Jessica Smith

#17. I have patience for centuries in me and will live as though my time were very big.

Rainer Maria Rilke

#18. In other words, it was a struggle with himself. And the product of that struggle: anger, bitterness, resentment, envy or transformation, aspiration, hope, decency..the product of that struggle is the quality of your life and the nature of your soul.

Emma Forrest

#19. That growing up is all about getting hurt. And then getting over it. You hurt. You recover. You move on. Odds are pretty good you're just going to get hurt again. But each time, you learn something.

Jim Butcher

#20. I remember going with my parents to weddings where the women would arrive covered in black veils, but underneath, they'd be wearing the most exquisite brightly colored Dolce & Gabbana suits. They were like peacocks showing off their tails.

Huma Abedin