Naomi Ragen

Suffering did different things to different people...Some souls became tempered, unshakable in their faith, while others became twisted and mis-shapen, throwing off…

— Naomi Ragen

...self-important western journalists who'd given up their sacred trust to become cheerleaders for trendy causes, the way communist journalists had once been…

— Naomi Ragen

Even her hair, she thought, running her fingers impatiently through the damp golden brown ringlets that curled romantically around her face. A…

— Naomi Ragen

“The coming together of a man and woman was a holy thing, after all. God had chosen this way of replenishing the…

— Naomi Ragen

“When there was nothing left to gain, nothing more to lose, when one was face-to-face with the moment of greatest despair, to…

— Naomi Ragen

“Like most Eastern Europeans, he was not amenable to the socialist ethic so many Israeli leftists still romanticized, despite the proven failure…

— Naomi Ragen

Women were naturally pure souls, on so much higher a spiritual plane to begin with than men.

— Naomi Ragen

It was Vivaldi's Mandolin Concerto, Francesca Abraham realized as the radio alarm went off. Lively, unrelentingly upbeat, it was the perfect tempo…

— Naomi Ragen

“The most terrible thing about terrorism, the thing that people fond of saying "one man's freedom fighter is another man's terrorist" didn't…

— Naomi Ragen

“He, the man, had seen her, touched her, and had not validated her beauty, her womanliness. He had turned away and gone…

— Naomi Ragen

“He who gives life, nourishes life. He listens, this I can tell you. Whatever happens, He's listening. He doesn't always answer right…

— Naomi Ragen

How do they manage to go on living?.....By loving life. And-in spite of everything-by loving God. By having enough faith to start…

— Naomi Ragen

“So you see, we are not free to choose our fate. There is a yoke to be borne and freedom is only…

— Naomi Ragen

“Elizabeth feared that because of her looks, she was doomed to meet men with unreasonably high self-images and no depth, the kind…

— Naomi Ragen

“To love human beauty is to love something whose very existence is doomed. Love should be based on permanence. On solid, secure…

— Naomi Ragen

Books were like old friends, with their worn covers and well-thumbed pages..

— Naomi Ragen

“...this was the only answer she'd ever found to evil: to go on living and to help others live in happiness.”

— Naomi Ragen

“What is wrong with life is human memory, she thought. What is the point of life and history--all that human beings sacrifice…

— Naomi Ragen

When a man and woman married, nothing they did together had any shame or immodesty. It was all in the name of…

— Naomi Ragen