Quotes about Threshold
When they placed their threshold next to My threshold and their doorposts beside My doorposts, with only a wall between Me and them, they defiled My holy name by the abominations they committed. Therefore I have consumed them in My anger.
- Ezekiel 43:8
The prince is to enter from the outside through the portico of the gateway and stand by the gatepost, while the priests sacrifice his burnt offerings and peace offerings. He is to bow in worship at the threshold of the gate and then depart, but the gate must not be shut until evening.
- Ezekiel 46:2
Then the man brought me back to the entrance of the temple, and I saw water flowing from under the threshold of the temple toward the east (for the temple faced east). The water was coming down from under the south side of the temple, south of the altar.
- Ezekiel 47:1
On that day I will punish all who leap over the threshold, who fill the house of their master with violence and deceit.
- Zephaniah 1:9
Herds will lie down in her midst, creatures of every kind. Both the desert owl and screech owl will roost atop her pillars. Their calls will sound from the window, but desolation will lie on the threshold, for He will expose the beams of cedar.
- Zephaniah 2:14
He closed the door but he knew that, for those who seek to step beyond the threshold, the door is always open. You need only turn the knob.
- Paulo Coelho
Wherever she was, at work, in the food line, in the dormitory, Betsie spoke to those around her about His nearness and His yearning to come into their lives. As her body grew weaker, her faith seemed to grow bolder. And sick call was "such and important place, Corrie! Some of these people are at the threshold of heaven!
- Corrie Ten Boom
Death is only a grim porter to let us into a stately palace.
- Richard Sibbes
Nothing thicker than a knife's blade separates happiness from melancholy.
- Virginia Woolf
upon opening the door. Half of the small
- Lauraine Snelling
The unlimited amount of information that I have access to has also given me an unlimited threshold for how I need to be stimulated.
- Bo Burnham
You say you're a coward, but it takes courage to say good-bye to everything and cross a threshold without any idea where it leads.
- Isabel Allende