Moses quotes
Born
Goshen, Lower Egypt, New Kingdom of Egypt.
Died
Mount Nebo, Moab.
Occupation
Leader.
Moses was a prophet in the Abrahamic religions. According to the Hebrew Bible, he was adopted by an Egyptian princess, and later in life became the leader of the Israelites and lawgiver, to whom the authorship of the Torah, or acquisition of the Torah from Heaven is traditionally attributed.
Have you forgotten God? Even if you have, He has not forgotten you.
– Moses
Our journey is just beginning.
– Moses
Who am I, that I should go unto Pharaoh, and that I should bring forth the children of Israel out of Egypt?
– Moses
Never leave fish to find fish.
– Moses
I have been a stranger in a foreign land.
– Moses
I pray thee, if I have found grace in thy sight, shew me now thy way, that I may know thee, that I may find grace in thy sight: and consider that this nation is thy people.
– Moses
Paintin’s not important. What’s important is keepin’ busy.
– Moses
What shall I do unto this people? they be almost ready to stone me.
– Moses
O Lord, I have never been eloquent, neither in the past nor since you have spoken to your servant. I am slow of speech and tongue.
– Moses
…the dust returns to the ground it came from, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.
– Moses
Do not worship any other god, for the Lord, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God.
– Moses
Fear not! Stand your ground… the Lord himself will fight for you; you have only to keep still.
– Moses
When either a man or a woman makes a special vow, the vow of a Nazarite, to separate himself to the Lord, he shall separate himself from wine and strong drink.
– Moses
Fear not: for God is come to prove you, and that his fear may be before your faces, that ye sin not.
– Moses
Let my teaching fall like rain and my words descend like dew, like showers on new grass, like abundant rain on tender plants.
– Moses
Come with me if you want to live!
– Moses
…he who goes down to the grave does not return.
– Moses
Yet it seems that a final race struggle is unavoidable.
– Moses
But now mine own eyes have beheld God; but not my natural, but my spiritual eyes, for my natural eyes could not have beheld; for I should have withered and died in his presence; but his glory was upon me; and I beheld his face, for I was transfigured before him.
– Moses