Quotes about House

Alone, seated in a strange house filled with strangers, I felt as if I were in dangerous waters, swimming badly and out of my depth. I was plankton in an ocean of whales.

Momma wouldn't talk right then, but later in the evening I found that my violation lay in using the phrase by the way. Momma explained that Jesus was the Way, the Truth and the Light, and anyone who says by the way is really saying, by Jesus, or by God and the Lord's name would not be taken in vain in her house.

with her through an angel that someone nearby could relate. The two women had one important predicament in common—questionable pregnancies, sure to stir up some talk. Elizabeth hadn't been out of the house in months.

Christ warns that the only indestructible house is the one built upon the rock of His teachings. The strength of our houses is not dependent on our salvation. It's not dependent on our faith. It's dependent on our willingness to live according to God's Word.

I am like a flourishing olive tree in the house of God; I trust in God's faithful love forever and ever. Psalm 52:8

Lord, I love the house where You dwell, the place where Your glory resides. Psalm 26:8

I will shake the house of Israel among all the nations, as one shakes a sieve, but not a pebble will fall to the ground. Amos 9:9

It is what I desire: to dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, gazing on the beauty of the Lord. Psalm 27:4

God's house will be happy because Christ will be there.

For evil men account those things alone evil which do not make men evil; neither do they blush to praise good things, and yet to remain evil among the good things they praise. It grieves them more to own a bad house than a bad life, as if it were man's greatest good to have everything good but himself.

Love is a gracious host to his guests though to the unbidden his house is a mirage and a mockery.

Building a vocation on the expectations of concrete results, however conceived, is like building a house on sand instead of on solid rock, and even takes away the ability to accept successes as free gifts.