It is only in Hebrew that you feel the full meaning of it -- all the associations which a different word has. — David Ben-Gurion Copy Share Image
The Rulers of Russia, then, are Jewish Politicians, and they are applying to the world the doctrine of Karl Marx (Mordecai). Marx,… — Bernard Lazare Copy Share Image
I have trouble reading modern Hebrew. In the 1950s, I could read anything. I don't know how much experience you've had with… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
One of God's central qualities is compassion, a word that in Hebrew is related to the word for "womb." Not only is… — Marcus Borg Copy Share Image
Scholars of the Hebrew bible define something they call wisdom literature and I would say clearly the poetry of wisdom is something… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
I was bar mitzvahed, which was hard. I feel it was the hardest thing I ever had to do; harder than making… — Clara Mamet Copy Share Image
In the Bible (Hebrews, 6:19), hope is ‘an anchor of the soul, both sure and stedfast, and which entereth into that within… — George Frederic Watts Copy Share Image
The word of God has provided nine explanatory designations of the heavenly beings... the first group is forever around God and is… — Pope Dionysius Copy Share Image
In case any are puzzled by the different translations from which I draw strength and help and delight, it is like this:… — Amy Carmichael Copy Share Image
[My father was ] Presbyterian [minister]. But I did not take the Bible seriously until I was forced to take Hebrew at… — Hershel Shanks Copy Share Image
When my works are being translated, I always get this question from my translators: Up or down? Which means, should it sound… — Etgar Keret Copy Share Image
For Paul 'righteousness' and 'justice' are the same word, as they were in Hebrew. Paul clearly believes that helping the poor is… — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
Bad English was the second language of Israel and bad Hebrew, of course, remained the national language. — George Mikes Copy Share Image
It is too late to be studying Hebrew; it is more important to understand even the slang of today. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I have one. I may get another during the off-season, I might get my son's name but I'm not sure yet. The… — Adam Pally Copy Share Image
I have been aware since my youth that I am a Hebrew through my mother, and that is something that has played… — Amar'e Stoudemire Copy Share Image
It's not as if the New Testament writers came along and said, "The culmination of Old Testament books is more books, New… — D. A. Carson Copy Share Image
Mine was a patchwork God, sewn together from bits of rag and ribbon, Eastern and Western, pagan and Hebrew, everything but the… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
My own interest is far more in the Hebrew Bible. My religion is more personally related to the Hebrew Bible than it… — Frank Moore Cross Copy Share Image
The uppermost idea with Hellenism is to see things as they really are; the uppermost ideas with Hebraism is conduct and obedience.Nothing… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
The logical man must either deny all miracles or none, and our American Indian myths and hero stories are perhaps, in themselves,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Berzelius' symbols are horrifying. A young student in chemistry might as soon learn Hebrew as make himself acquainted with them... They appear… — John Dalton Copy Share Image
I think that, in Hebrew, it's like the language creates a more unique and specific universe even before the story. — Etgar Keret Copy Share Image
“The special knowledge you are about to learn will reveal a “letter theory” that was set into motion from the very first… — Michael Ben Zehabe Copy Share Image