Maria Esther Torres's Highlights
Maria Esther Torres
highlighted Isaiah 40:3 ESV
A voice cries: "In the wilderness prepare the way of the Lord; make straight in the desert a highway for our God.
Dec 6
Maria Esther Torres
highlighted Isaiah 39:8 ESV
Then Hezekiah said to Isaiah, "The word of the Lord that you have spoken is good." For he thought, "There will be peace and security in my days."
Dec 6
Maria Esther Torres
highlighted Isaiah 39:5 ESV
Then Isaiah said to Hezekiah, "Hear the word of the Lord of hosts:
Dec 6
Maria Esther Torres
highlighted Isaiah 39:4 ESV
He said, "What have they seen in your house?" Hezekiah answered, "They have seen all that is in my house. There is nothing in my storehouses that I did not show them."
Dec 6
Maria Esther Torres
highlighted Isaiah 39:2 ESV
And Hezekiah welcomed them gladly. And he showed them his treasure house, the silver, the gold, the spices, the precious oil, his whole armory, all that was found in his storehouses. There was nothing in his house or in all his realm that Hezekiah did not show them.
Dec 6
Maria Esther Torres
highlighted Acts 17:34 ESV
But some men joined him and believed, among whom also were Dionysius the Areopagite and a woman named Damaris and others with them.
Dec 4
Maria Esther Torres
highlighted Acts 17:31 ESV
because he has fixed a day on which he will judge the world in righteousness by a man whom he has appointed; and of this he has given assurance to all by raising him from the dead."
Dec 4
Maria Esther Torres
highlighted Acts 17:30 ESV
The times of ignorance God overlooked, but now he commands all people everywhere to repent,
Dec 4
Maria Esther Torres
highlighted Acts 17:29 ESV
Being then God's offspring, we ought not to think that the divine being is like gold or silver or stone, an image formed by the art and imagination of man.
Dec 4
Maria Esther Torres
highlighted Acts 17:28 ESV
for "'In him we live and move and have our being'; as even some of your own poets have said, "'For we are indeed his offspring.'
Dec 4
Maria Esther Torres
highlighted Acts 17:26 ESV
And he made from one man every nation of mankind to live on all the face of the earth, having determined allotted periods and the boundaries of their dwelling place,
Dec 4
Maria Esther Torres
highlighted Acts 17:27 ESV
that they should seek God, and perhaps feel their way toward him and find him. Yet he is actually not far from each one of us,
Dec 4
Maria Esther Torres
highlighted Acts 17:25 ESV
nor is he served by human hands, as though he needed anything, since he himself gives to all mankind life and breath and everything.
Dec 4
Maria Esther Torres
highlighted Acts 17:23 ESV
For as I passed along and observed the objects of your worship, I found also an altar with this inscription, 'To the unknown god.' What therefore you worship as unknown, this I proclaim to you.
Dec 4
Maria Esther Torres
highlighted Acts 17:24 ESV
The God who made the world and everything in it, being Lord of heaven and earth, does not live in temples made by man,
Dec 4
Maria Esther Torres
highlighted Acts 17:20 ESV
For you bring some strange things to our ears. We wish to know therefore what these things mean."
Dec 4
Maria Esther Torres
highlighted Acts 17:19 ESV
And they took him and brought him to the Areopagus, saying, "May we know what this new teaching is that you are presenting?
Dec 4
Maria Esther Torres
highlighted Acts 17:18 ESV
Some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers also conversed with him. And some said, "What does this babbler wish to say?" Others said, "He seems to be a preacher of foreign divinities"—because he was preaching Jesus and the resurrection.
Dec 4
Maria Esther Torres
highlighted Acts 17:16 ESV
Now while Paul was waiting for them at Athens, his spirit was provoked within him as he saw that the city was full of idols.
Dec 4
Maria Esther Torres
highlighted Acts 17:13 ESV
But when the Jews from Thessalonica learned that the word of God was proclaimed by Paul at Berea also, they came there too, agitating and stirring up the crowds.
Dec 4