Quotes about Despised
Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘As surely as I live, I will bring down upon his head My oath that he despised and My covenant that he broke.
- Ezekiel 17:19
You have despised My holy things and profaned My Sabbaths.
- Ezekiel 22:8
“Behold, I will make you small among the nations; you will be deeply despised.
- Obadiah 1:2
For who has despised the day of small things? But these seven eyes of the LORD, which scan the whole earth, will rejoice when they see the plumb line in the hand of Zerubbabel.”
- Zechariah 4:10
“So I in turn have made you despised and humiliated before all the people, because you have not kept My ways, but have shown partiality in matters of the law.”
- Malachi 2:9
He chose the lowly and despised things of the world, and the things that are not, to nullify the things that are,
- 1 Corinthians 1:28
Better to confess Christ 1000 times now and be despised by men, than be disowned by Christ before God on the day of Judgment.
- JC Ryle
Sound Protestant and Evangelical doctrine is useless — if it is not accompanied by a holy life. It is worse then useless; it does positive harm. It is despised by keen-sighted and shrewd men of the world, as an unreal and hollow thing, and brings religion into contempt.
- JC Ryle
And oh, Fair plant, said he, with fruit surcharged, Deigns none to ease thy load, and taste thy sweet, Nor God, nor Man? Is knowledge so despised? Or envy, or what reserve forbids to taste? Forbid who will, none shall from me withhold Longer thy offered good; why else set here?
- John Milton
Where women are honored, the divinities are pleased. Where they are despised, it is useless to pray to God.
- Victor Hugo
He was like one people turned away from; He was despised, and we didn't value Him. Isaiah 53:3
- Beth Moore
There are many men who are forgotten, who are despised, and who are trampled on by their fellows, but there never was a man who was so despised as the everlasting God has been!
- Charles Spurgeon