Judaism Quotes · Page 39

It has always been inevitable that, living as a small minority among a Christian majority, some Jews would convert to Christianity.

— David Novak

For a long time I was convinced that the conflict between Jewish people and black people in this country was a media…

— Toni Morrison

“ACT18.28 For he mightily convinced the Jews, and that publickly, shewing by the scriptures that Jesus was Christ.”

— Anonymous

You have miracles [in the Hebrew Bible], yes, but they're not the work, normally, of demons.

— Frank Moore Cross

I am Jewish, but I love Christmas, as most Jews with any taste do, because Hanukkah is lame.

— Billy Eichner

“To review: We have a dog that's been resurrected, a peasant girl who sees the future, a supernaturally strong oblate, and a…

— Adam Gidwitz

“The Jewish contribution to the idea of love is the conception of love of the Sabbath, the love of a day, of…

— Abraham Joshua Heschel

The Jewish state has so much to teach diaspora Jews about resilience, innovation, energy, and optimism.

— Bari Weiss

“He, although he received no symbols and types of high priesthood from any one, although he was not born of a race…

— Eusebius of Caesarea

Life, from beginning to end, is fear. Yes, it is pain, yes, it is desire, but more than anything it is fear;…

— Vivian Gornick

The extremists are talking too loudly, and everyone is convinced that only he is on the right side. It’s not just Jews…

— Reuven Rivlin

Many people do not know that Jesus did not speak Latin or English or Hebrew; he spoke Aramaic. But nobody knows that…

— Ngugi wa Thiong'o

The Lamanites [Native Americans], now a down-trodden people, are a remnant of the house of Israel. The curse of God has followed…

— Wilford Woodruff

I'm proud to say you are not a racist or a bigot or anything like that if you say that the Netherlands,…

— Geert Wilders

“The Holocaust The Nazis were extremely prejudiced against the Jewish people. Under Hitler’s leadership, the Nazis killed millions of Jewish people, as…

— Mary Pope Osborne

The market economy is deeply congruent with the values set out in the Hebrew Bible. Material prosperity is a divine blessing. Poverty…

— Jonathan Sacks

You who believe, do not take the Jews and Christians as friends; they are allies only to each other. Anyone who takes…

— Ayaan Hirsi Ali

This is entertainment, not Judaism, I think the general public will celebrate this, but the religious public will be indifferent. (on Madonna's…

— Uri Orbach

Jewish guilt is more like my dad, who's very Howard Ratner... He's always calling me up on a High Holiday: 'Did you…

— Sarah Sherman

“A person who is insufficiently honored as a child is destined to chase honor as an adult.”

— Greg Marcus

Celebrating the Jewish New Year is like celebrating the regular New Year except we blow into a ram's horn and have the…

— Anonymous

There are certain concepts, which exist in english, and are unthinkable, untranslatable into Hebrew and vice versa.

— Amos Oz

Without the perfect sympathy with the animals around them, no gentleman's education, no Christian education, could be of any possible use.

— John Ruskin

There is a school in Israel called Hand in Hand which I support. There Arab and Jewish students study together on a…

— Zubin Mehta

It's not how much or how little you have that makes you great or small, but how much or how little you…

— Samson Raphael Hirsch

Everyone - whether it's the Jews, the Greeks, the Catholics - everybody is entitled to religious beliefs and entitled to their traditions.

— John Catsimatidis

We will smite the Jews where we meet them and whoever goes along with them must take the consequences.

— Arthur Seyss-Inquart

Emerging from embattled and humble beginnings, the Jewish state has exceeded all expectations for its success and prosperity.

— Ehud Olmert

Jerusalem doesn't belong only to Israelis and Palestinians, Muslims and Jews, but to the world.

— A. B. Yehoshua

The official Hamas charter calls for the murder of Jews and destruction of the Jewish state.

— Aaron Klein

Aaron was one of the few Jewish volunteers in our study, and I felt a certain kinship with him at that level.

— Rick Strassman

Jewish sovereignty and governance over our ancestral home are, I believe, important goals that every Jew ought to support.

— Edgar Bronfman, Sr

In Jewish tradition, death-defying devotion to scholarship was the stuff of saintliness.

— Israel Shenker

You know, I get much more Jewish in Israel because I like the way that religion is done there.

— Natalie Portman

I've got another friend who is half-German and half-Polish. He hates Jews but can't remember why!

— Jackie Mason

I suspect most likely that more Nazis came to America. I was a student at Harvard during the early 1950s. There was…

— Noam Chomsky

Our policy is very simple. The Jewish state was set up to defend Jewish lives, and we always reserve the right to…

— Benjamin Netanyahu

Oh, the Protestants hate the Catholics/ And the Catholics hate the Protestants/ And the Hindus hate the Muslims/ And everybody hates the…

— Tom Lehrer

Everyone thinks I'm Jewish. I'm not. Last year I got a call: "Happy Hanukkah." I said "Ma, I'm not Jewish."

— Joy Behar

By pagans the Jews (and later Christians) were seen as perverse, almost indeed as atheists, for they denied the very existence of…

— Adrian Goldsworthy