Synagogue Quotes

I follow no doctrine. I don't belong to a church or a temple or a synagogue or an ashram.

— Meryl Streep

If you have to have 25 French paratroopers to guard a single synagogue, it means that life is not healthy in France…

— Jeffrey Goldberg

The style of God venerated in the church, mosque, or synagogue seems completely different from the style of the natural universe.

— Alan Watts

I try to be a good shiksa wife. I go to Central Synagogue in New York.

— Drew Barrymore

I believe in Christianity, Judaism and Islamism, but I stay away from churches, synagogues and mosques.

— Ted Lange

The style of God venerated in church, mosque, and synagogue seems completely different from the style of the natural universe.

— Alan Watts

If it respected religion, Israel would have transferred these synagogues back to its territory.

— Mohammed Dahlan

If synagogues are attacked, this would give Jewish extremists an excuse to attack mosques.

— Mohammed Dahlan

I love the academy in terms of the life of the mind and the world of ideas. I also love the streets.…

— Cornel West

Less than a year after the Sept. 11 attacks, al-Qaida attacks were continuing: the firebombing of a synagogue in Tunisia in April,…

— Bill Dedman

Satan is inconsistent. He persuades a man not to go to a synagogue on a cold morning; yet when the man does…

— John Henry Newman

My mother was a modern woman with a limited interest in religion. When the sun set and the fast of the Day…

— Lionel Blue

I have not given it [synagogue] up. Christianity is the completion of the synagogue, for the synagogue was a promise, and Christianity…

— Israel Zolli

The real act of marriage takes place in the heart, not in the ballroom or church or synagogue. It's a choice you…

— Barbara De Angelis

“Whenever He answers prayers, God usually prioritizes those by people who, instead of their mouths, have prayed with their hands and/or feet.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

The public library building, in my view, is just a little lower than the church, the cathedral, the temple, the synagogue and…

— Maya Angelou

The Pope going to Jerusalem, the Pope recognising the State of Islam, the Pope going to the wall organising a concert for…

— Elie Wiesel

It's quite common for a Sufi mystic to cry in ecstasy that he's neither a Jew, a Christian, nor a Muslim. He…

— Karen Armstrong

Now, Jews integrate but they don't destroy their institutions. They don't close the synagogue. They don't stop having special Jewish graveyards. They…

— John Henrik Clarke

At John Schlesinger's funeral at a synagogue in St John's Wood some years ago the person I stood next to said to…

— Stephen Fry

I had already been a young singer. And once, as a profession, I was a young singer, what you would call a…

— Charlemagne Palestine

Certainly the affirmative pursuit of one's convictions about the ultimate mystery of the universe and man's relation to it is placed beyond…

— Felix Frankfurter

I was raised in a reform synagogue. I think we all bring with us a sense of when hard things happen to…

— Michael Stuhlbarg

What shall we Christians do now with this depraved and damned people of the Jews? ... I will give my faithful advice:…

— Martin Luther

Many of us regard ourselves as mildly liberal or centrist politically, voice fairly pleasant sentiments about our poor children, contribute money to…

— Jonathan Kozol

I have received your letter of the 6th, with the eloquent discourse delivered at the consecration of the Jewish Synagogue. Having ever…

— James Madison

We have to make a distinction between members of the Jewish community who sincerely are trying to follow the laws, statutes and…

— Louis Farrakhan

Small business is the gateway to opportunity for those who want a piece of the American dream. [...] Well, wouldn't it be…

— Ronald Reagan

“The noble old synagogue had been profaned and turned into a stable by the Nazis, and left open to the elements by…

— Christopher Hitchens

Of course, being the synagogue president, for me it was a great blessing.

— Jacky Rosen

My mother was very agnostic. She would never set foot in the synagogue, she couldn't be doing with it.

— Janet Suzman

My father was a rabbi and had a little synagogue in Canada, so I'm from Canada. I left there at 16.

— David Steinberg

in the synagogue of my heart... I myself jail and the jailed, I go wounded, bite-marked

— Helene Cixous

Some of us worship in churches, some in synagogues, some on golf courses...

— Adlai Stevenson I

“Most priests wish they were as righteous as they seem to most members of their congregations.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Americans practice different faiths in churches, synagogues, mosques and temples. And many good people practice no faith at all.

— George W. Bush

I'm now a bit anti-Jewish since my last visit to the synagogue, but my atheism does not necessarily reject religion.

— Jack Steinberger

I think people often come to the synagogue, mosque, the church looking for God, and what we give them is religion.

— Gene Robinson

I leave it to the faithful to burn each other's churches and mosques and synagogues, which they can be always relied upon…

— Christopher Hitchens

When "I" and "You" are absent, I've no idea if this is a mosque, synagogue, church or temple

— Mahmud Shabistari