Rabbi Quotes
68 quotes by 58 authors
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It was admitted by the early rabbis that the sectarians could be as full of good works as eggs were full of meat.
— Lionel Blue
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Perhaps we would do well to listen to the likes of Rabbi Harold Kushner, who contends that God is not really as powerful as we…
— Tony Campolo
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(When asked merely if they accept evolution, 45 percent of Americans say yes. The figure is 70 percent in China.) When the movie Jurassic Park…
— Carl Sagan
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I believe it is in the national interest that government stand side-by-side with people of faith who work to change lives for the better. I…
— George W. Bush
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Each generation of rabbis is necessarily less perfect than the rabbis that came before, since each generation is more removed from the perfection of the…
— Cory Doctorow
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I would become a priest or a rabbi or a monk or whatever the hell was necessary to perform miracles such as taking money from…
— Lenny Bruce
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The rabbis, the Jewish religious people, the priests of the temple of Jerusalem, they were learned fools. They could not tolerate Jesus. The learned fools…
— Rajneesh
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I am a reformed Taoist, part-time Buddhist, Hindu, animist, pagan, Jewish mystic, and Christian. I always got along great with priests and rabbis and mullahs…
— Steven Van Zandt
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Clergymen tend to be unreliable and pompous figures. Seldom Jewish rabbis, less often Catholic priests, but Protestant ministers tend to be... not really very admirable.…
— Charlton Heston
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I refuse to stand up in front of a rabbi and my friends and the woman I love - who I will tell you I…
— Gene Simmons
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You will reply that reality hasn't the slightest need to be of interest. And I'll answer you that reality may avoid the obligation to be…
— Jorge Luis Borges
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I got a imam, I got a rabbi, I got a priest, I got a reverend — I got 'em all. But I don't want…
— Mike Tyson
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I knew there was only one place to go. I sank down into the center of my soul, grew still, and listened to the Rabbi's…
— Brennan Manning
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How can a rabbi not live with doubt? The Bible itself is a book of doubt.
— Arthur Hertzberg
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Symbolically, what the rabbis say is that at Passover, what we have to do is try to get rid of our hot air - our…
— Jackie Tabick
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In mid-career, I was at one and the same time the rabbi of a major congregation, writing books, and teaching at Columbia. I didn't spend…
— Arthur Hertzberg
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An aged rabbi, crazed with liberalism, once said to me, We Jews are just ordinary human beings. Only a bit more so!
— Lionel Blue
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Every time I go into a new venture, I find a "rabbi" who has the business acumen to help me understand the mechanics of that…
— Russell Simmons
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I persist in preferring philosophers to rabbis priests imams ayatollahs and mullahs. Rather than trust their theological hocus-pocus I prefer to draw on alternatives to…
— Michel Onfray
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Everyone needs a spiritual guide: a minister, rabbi, counselor, wise friend, or therapist. My own wise friend is my dog.
— Gary A. Kowalski
Who Wrote These Rabbi Quotes
58 authors contributed a total of 68 Rabbi Quotes, led by these top contributors: