Moses Quotes

237 quotes by 183 authors

[Judaism is] ever... mighty in wickedness... when it cursed Moses; when it hated God; when it vowed its sons to demons; when it killed the… — Hilary of Poitiers
When we leave Mass, we ought to go out the way Moses descended Mt Sinai: with his face shining, with his heart brave and strong… — Oscar Romero
Yes, I'm a Judeo-Christian. Jesus and Moses are in my heart, and... both of them were independents, by the way. — Kinky Friedman
Satan cannot win. Why not? Because he has denied God's sovereignty and disobeyed God's law. But Moses was told explicitly, God's blessings come only from… — Gary North
Like the people of Israel who created a golden calf to represent God while Moses was away, fundamentalist Christians have built their own idols to… — Mel White
All great leaders since Moses have known that a feared enemy must be crushed completely. (Sometimes they have learned this the hard way.) If one… — Robert Greene
No legal ceremony--no election of the woman--no penalty for the perfidy of the man--no law to compel him to do his duty, no compensation for… — Victoria Woodhull
If these laws [in the Bible] belonged to any other ancient culture we would approach them very differently. We need not bother to reject the… — Marilynne Robinson
First, it is not unimportant that the legislative texts of the Old Testament are placed in the mouth of Moses and within the narrative framework… — Paul Ricoeur
Be strong and of a good courage: for unto this people shalt thou divide for an inheritance the land, which I sware unto their fathers… — Joshua
I walk out into a nature such as the old prophets and poets Menu, Moses, Homer, Chaucer, walked in. You may name it America, but… — Henry David Thoreau
Having survived her 10th London winter (she got through January by assigning it "international month," and amusing Moses and his big sister, Apple, 9, with… — Gwyneth Paltrow
[Moses] is obsessed with hip-hop and wanted a gold chain like his uncle Jay-Z. — Gwyneth Paltrow
No one needs a first edition. Whoever wrote it; even if it was Moses. — Graham Joyce
Should a priest reject relativity because it contains no authoritative exposition on the doctrine of the Trinity? Once you realize that the Bible does not… — Georges Lemaitre
The Hasidic rabbi, Zuscha, was asked on his deathbed what he thought the kingdom of God would be like. He replied, "I don't know. But… — Alan Loy McGinnis
The "burning bush" was not a miracle. It was a test. God wanted to find out whether or not Moses could pay attention to something… — Lawrence Kushner
It was with good reason that God commanded through Moses that the vineyard and harvest were not to be gleaned to the last grape or… — Martin Luther
For me chemistry represented an indefinite cloud of future potentialities which enveloped my life to come in black volutes torn by fiery flashes, like those… — Primo Levi
Jesus and Lincoln, Moses and Jefferson can seem so long gone, so unbelievable, so dead. — Sarah Vowell

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