Quotes about Animals

When you offer blind animals for sacrifice, is it not wrong? And when you present the lame and sick ones, is it not wrong? Try offering them to your governor! Would he be pleased with you or show you favor?” asks the LORD of Hosts.

“You hypocrites!” the Lord replied. “Does not each of you on the Sabbath untie his ox or donkey from the stall and lead it to water?

In the temple courts He found men selling cattle, sheep, and doves, and money changers seated at their tables.

It contained all kinds of four-footed animals and reptiles of the earth, as well as birds of the air.

I looked at it closely and saw four-footed animals of the earth, wild beasts, reptiles, and birds of the air.

You must abstain from food sacrificed to idols, from blood, from the meat of strangled animals, and from sexual immorality. You will do well to avoid these things. Farewell.

Although the high priest brings the blood of animals into the Holy Place as a sacrifice for sin, the bodies are burned outside the camp.

All kinds of animals, birds, reptiles, and creatures of the sea are being tamed and have been tamed by man,

These men are like irrational animals, creatures of instinct, born to be captured and destroyed. They blaspheme in matters they do not understand, and like such creatures, they too will be destroyed.

These men, however, slander what they do not understand, and like irrational animals, they will be destroyed by the things they do instinctively.

The desert takes our dreams away from us, and they don't always return.... Those who don't return become a part of the clouds, a part of the animals that hide in the ravines and of the water that comes from the earth. They become part of everything … They become the Soul of the World.

Human reason borrowed many arts from the instinct of animals.