"If you study the Talmud you please God……" — Abraham Cahan
"If you study the Talmud you please God even more than you do by praying or fasting."
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18 Quotes by Abraham Cahan
Abraham Cahan has 18 quotes on this site.
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Be modest, humble, simple. Control your anger.
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Life is much shorter than I imagined it to be.
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Only the other world has substance and reality; only good deeds and holy learning have tangible worth.
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God, for example, appealed to me as a beardless man wearing a quilted silk cap; holiness was something burning, forbidding,…
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If you feel that you are good, don't be too proud of it.
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Above all, you must fight conceit, envy, and every kind of ill-feeling in your heart.
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He considered the Rvolution a victroy for the Jews, which opinion, he said, prevailed on the East Side where rejoicing…
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If it be true that our people represent a high percentage of mental vigor, the distinction is probably due, in…
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The orthodox Jewish faith practically excludes woman from religious life.
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Remember that it is not enough to abstain from lying by word of mouth; for the worst lies are often…
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If a man is tongue-tied, don't laugh at him, but, rather, feel pity for him, as you would for a…
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I was a great dreamer of day dreams.
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Periodic fasting can help clear up the mind and strengthen the body and the spirit.
— Ezra Taft Benson
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To become grateful, I must learn that I can handle disappointment and delayed gratification with grace and perseverance. This is…
— John Ortberg
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`Freedom` means freedom from the mind. Then you are simply in a silence, and in that silence you melt, you…
— Rajneesh
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Fasting is the first principle of medicine.
— Rumi
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Eid is a time of joy, after a season of fasting and prayer and reflection. Each year, the end of…
— George W. Bush
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The philosopher is like a man fasting in the midst of universal intoxication. He alone perceives the illusion of which…
— Henri Frederic Amiel
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Do you fast? Then feed the hungry, give drink to the thirsty, visit the sick, do not forget the imprisoned,…
— Saint John Chrysostom
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The goal of fasting is inner unity.
— Thomas Merton
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Prayer, fasting, vigils, and all other Christian practices, however good they may be in themselves, certainly do not constitute the…
— Seraphim of Sarov
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To discipline ourselves through fasting brings us in tune with God, and fast day provides an occasion to set aside…
— Howard W. Hunter
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There are some who died because they were fasting, and they were crammed in tight.
— Thaksin Shinawatra
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It dawned upon me that fasting could be made as powerful a weapon of indulgence as of restraint
— Mahatma Gandhi
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