Character Quotes to Memorize Friday, October 12, 2007

Here are some different Bible characters with quotes for you to memorize. Some are short and easy, and others are longer and a little harder. Don't forget to look in your Bible and try to find your own favorite Bible characters and their stories.

Daniel
 

HARD – "My God hath sent his angel, and hath shut the lions’ mouths, that they have not hurt me" - Daniel 6:22

EASY – God has kept me safe from the lions!

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Moses

HARD – "And the Lord said unto him, what is that in thine hand? And he said, a rod. And he said, Cast it on the ground. And he cast it on the ground, and it became a serpent and Moses fled before it." Exodus 4:2-3

EASY – "Pharaoh, LET MY PEOPLE GO!"

Elijah

HARD – "And he stretched himself upon the child three times, and cried unto the Lord, and said, O Lord my God, I pray thee, let this child’s soul come into him again…" I Kings 17:21-22

EASY – "Not dew nor rain will fall until I call for it!"

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Noah

HARD – "And the Lord said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air…" Genesis 6:7

Easy – "IT WILL RAIN! God said so."

Jonah

HARD – "For thou hadst cast me into the deep, in the midst of the seas; and the floods compassed me about: all thy billows and thy waves passed over me." Jonah 2:3

EASY – "God made a special fish to swallow me up!"

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John the Baptist

HARD – "There cometh one mightier than I after me, the latchet of whose shoes I am not worthy to stoop down and unloose." St. Mark 1:7

EASY – "Get ready, Jesus is coming!"

Samson

HARD – "…and behold, a young lion roared against him. And the Spirit of the Lord came mightily upon him, and he rent him as he would have rent a kid…" Judges 14:5-6

EASY – "I killed a thousand Philistines with the jawbone of a mule."

Abraham

HARD – "…And he looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the plain, and beheld, and, lo, the smoke of the country went up as the smoke of a furnace." Genesis 19: 27-28

EASY – "God will provide a sacrifice!"

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David

HARD – "Then said David to the Philistine, Thou comest to me with a sword, and with a spear, and with shield: but I come to thee in the name of the Lord of hosts…" I Samuel 17:45

EASY – "Goliath, I’m going to kill you with 5 rocks…F.A.I.T. and H."

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Joshua

HARD – "Then spake Joshua to the Lord in the day when the Lord delivered up the Amorites before the children of Israel, and he said in the sight of Israel, Sun, stand thou still upon Gibeon; and thou Moon, in the valley of Ajalon." Joshua 10:12

EASY – "The people shouted and the walls fell down."

Joseph

HARD – "And that food shall be for store to the land against the seven years of famine, which shall be in the land of Egypt; that the land perish not through the famine." Genesis 41:36

EASY - "I have a coat of many colors that my daddy made me."

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Mary

HARD – "And the angel came in unto her and said, Hail, thou that art highly favoured, the Lord is with thee: blessed art thou among women." Luke 1:28

EASY – "Me have a child, how could that be?"

Sarah

HARD – "And the Lord said unto Abraham, wherefore did Sarah laugh, saying, Shall I of a surety bear a child, which am old?" Genesis 18:13

EASY – "I can’t have a baby, I’m too old!"

Elisabeth (John the Baptist’s mother)

HARD – "…Elisabeth shall bar thee a son, and thou shalt call his name John." Luke 1:13

EASY – "My baby came to life when you said the name Jesus!"

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Esther

HARD – "And it was so, when the king saw Ester the queen standing in the court, that she obtained favour in this sight: and the king held out to Esther the golder scepter that was in his hand…" Esther 5:2

EASY – "I get to be Queen!"

Shunimite woman

HARD – "Run now, I pray thee, to meet her, and say unto her, Is it well with thee? Is it well with thy husband? Is it well with the child? And she answered, It is well." II Kings 4:26

EASY – "Honey, that man named Elisha is a Prophet."

The woman at the well

HARD – "The woman saith unto him, Sir, I perceive that thou art a prophet."St. John 4:19

EASY – "Come see a Man that is the Christ!"