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Israel Shenker has 20 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Writing is an affair of yearning for great voyages and hauling on frayed ropes.
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Jews are a singular confusion — difficult to define, awkward to describe, impossible to understand. All the virtues, all the vices, every…
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America has a way of inventing tradition each morning and erasing the past by nightfall, and thehold of ancient custom is endangered…
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In the Bible, fate was often presented as the handmaiden of morality: sin was succeeded by misfortune, righteousness by prosperity, with reward…
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At Vatican Council II, one dissenting Roman Catholic theologian declared: "Yes, the Bible says "Be fruitful and multiply," but that was when…
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God's greatest blessing is children. The only problem is that you have to support them. It's a problem, not a disadvantage.
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A [Jewish] woman could not divorce her husband, but she could petition for divorce, and the religious courts could force him to…
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It was God who dictated what man should believe and do, leaving man the freedom to accept or scoff, to obey or…
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Fundamentalists are less concerned to be systematic and rational than to be humble and faithful, accepting God's commandments because they come from…
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Embracing and rejecting tradition, bound and liberated by faith, torn between obscurantism and reason, self-assured and self-critical, they were a kaleidoscope of…
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Yiddish has a down-to-earth quality that makes it remote from high-flown rhetoric, and it has a catch-as-catch-can charm derived from its stunning…
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A second-century rabbi said that if 999 angels gave a bad account of a man and one angel reported favorably, God would…
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American and Israel share a special bond. Our relationship is unique among all nations. Like America, Israel is a strong democracy, a…
— William J. Clinton
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The love of domination and an uncontrolled lust of arbitrary power have prevailed among all nations and perhaps in proportion to the…
— Mercy Otis Warren
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We need to promote greater tolerance and understanding among the peoples of the world. Nothing can be more dangerous to our efforts…
— Kofi Annan
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The message of biblical Christianity is 'God loves me so that I might make him- his ways, his salvation, his glory, and…
— David Platt
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It is the duty of those who are entrusted with the Gospel to endeavor to make it known among all nations.
— William Carey
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God loves me so that I might make him— his ways, his salvation, his glory, and his greatness—known among all nations.
— David Platt
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The suggestion that Jews were selected from among all nations of the earth to be God's chosen people suggested a kind of…
— Israel Shenker
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But in every matter the consensus of opinion among all nations is to be regarded as the law of nature.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Among all nations there should be vast temples raised where people might worship in silence and listen to it, for it is…
— Jerome K. Jerome
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How could I say to Him: Blessed be Thou, Almighty, Master of the Universe, who chose us among all nations to be…
— Elie Wiesel
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