Quotes about Shadows
In every aspect of the day Jesus was aware of the Father. He beheld Him in the clouds and in the shadows of the clouds that pass over the earth.
- Khalil Gibran
Love is a trap. When it appears, we see only its light, not its shadows.
- Paulo Coelho
Love prefers twilight to daylight.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
It is not true to say that God wants to teach us something in our trials. Through every cloud He brings our way, He wants us to unlearn something. His purpose in using the cloud is to simplify our beliefs until our relationship with Him is exactly like that of a child—a relationship simply between God and our own souls, and where other people are but shadows.
- Oswald Chambers
When Gaal saw the people, he said to Zebul, “Look, people are coming down from the mountains!” But Zebul replied, “The shadows of the mountains look like men to you.”
- Judges 9:36
When the evening shadows began to fall on the gates of Jerusalem, just before the Sabbath, I ordered that the gates be shut and not opened until after the Sabbath. I posted some of my servants at the gates so that no load could enter on the Sabbath day.
- Nehemiah 13:19
He reveals the deep things of darkness and brings deep shadows into light.
- Job 12:22
My face is red with weeping, and deep shadows ring my eyes;
- Job 16:16
For behold, the wicked bend their bows. They set their arrow on the string to shoot from the shadows at the upright in heart.
- Psalm 11:2
My days are like lengthening shadows, and I wither away like grass.
- Psalm 102:11
Before the day breaks and the shadows flee, I will make my way to the mountain of myrrh and to the hill of frankincense.
- Song of Solomon 4:6
‘Prepare for battle against her; rise up, let us attack at noon. Woe to us, for the daylight is fading; the evening shadows grow long.
- Jeremiah 6:4