Quotes about Sign
Heaven and earth are not to be split apart; they are to be brought together; and the spirit is the sign and means in the present by which that future becomes real in advance. The spirit is the powerful breath of that new creation, bringing signs and foretastes of the heaven-and-earth reality to birth here and now.
- NT Wright
left to ourselves we lapse into a kind of collusion with entrophy, acquiescing in the general belief that things may be getting worse but that there's nothing much we can do about them. And we are wrong. Our task in the present...is to live as resurrection people in between Easter and the final day, with our Christian life, corporate and individual, in both worship and mission, as a sign of the first and a foretaste of the second.
- NT Wright
To be shallow is not a sign of being wicked, nor is shallowness a sign that there are no deeps; the ocean has a shore.
- Oswald Chambers
The wonders of conviction of sin, forgiveness, and holiness are so interwoven that it is only the forgiven person who is truly holy. He proves he is forgiven by being the opposite of what he was previously, by the grace of God. Repentance always brings a person to the point of saying, "I have sinned." The surest sign that God is at work in his life is when he says that and means it.
- Oswald Chambers
The world does not encourage you to sing, but God does. Song is the sign of an unburdened heart; so sing your songs of love freely, rising ever higher and higher into a fuller understanding of the greatest, grandest fact on the stage of time—God is love.
- Oswald Chambers
Looking for justice is actually a sign that we have been diverted from our devotion to Him. Never look for justice in this world, but never cease to give it. If we look for justice, we will only begin to complain and to indulge ourselves in the discontent of self-pity, as if to say, "Why should I be treated like this?
- Oswald Chambers
Your suffering is not a sign that you've been forsaken; rather, it's a sign that you live in a world that doesn't function the way God intended and is in need of complete renewal.
- Paul David Tripp
in this case, the blood of the Passover Lamb — means the difference between life and death. To ignore the requirements whereby the sign would be present is to invite death and destruction into your home and family — and your nation. So, to some degree, the choice to live or to die is left to us.
- Perry Stone
And God said, “This is the sign of the covenant I am making between Me and you and every living creature with you, a covenant for all generations to come:
- Genesis 9:12
I have set My rainbow in the clouds, and it will be a sign of the covenant between Me and the earth.
- Genesis 9:13
So God said to Noah, “This is the sign of the covenant that I have established between Me and every creature on the earth.”
- Genesis 9:17
You are to circumcise the flesh of your foreskin, and this will be a sign of the covenant between Me and you.
- Genesis 17:11