Quotes about Sitting

Die christliche Sitte, träge aufrecht dazusitzen wie bei einer Unterhaltungsveranstaltung, deutet darauf hin, dass Gott als Unterhaltungskünstler gilt, der von der Bühne entfernt und durch eine andere Nummer ersetzt werden kann, wenn er nicht mehr unterhält.

When his father-in-law saw all that Moses was doing for the people, he asked, “What is this that you are doing for the people? Why do you sit alone as judge, with all the people standing around you from morning till evening?”

Anything on which she lies or sits during her menstruation will be unclean,

And whether it is a bed or furniture on which she was sitting, whoever touches it will be unclean until evening.

While they were sitting at the table, the word of the LORD came to the prophet who had brought him back,

When Elisha returned to Gilgal, there was a famine in the land. As the sons of the prophets were sitting at his feet, he said to his attendant, “Put on the large pot and boil some stew for the sons of the prophets.”

But I know your sitting down, your going out and coming in, and your raging against Me.

You know when I sit and when I rise; You understand my thoughts from afar.

“Please sit down,” they said, “and read it in our hearing.” So Baruch read it in their hearing.

When they sit and when they rise, see how they mock me in song.

I came to the exiles at Tel-abib who dwelt by the River Kebar. And for seven days I sat where they sat and remained there among them, overwhelmed.

Then some of the elders of Israel came and sat down before me.