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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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Wakefulness is the only saintliness there is, and sleepiness, unconsciousness, is the only sin there is; all other sins are born out…
— Rajneesh
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Infinite perfection is in every man, though unmanifested. Every man has in him the potentiality of attaining to perfect saintliness, Rishihood, or…
— Swami Vivekananda
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All expectations belong to the mind, all disciplines belong to the mind, all so-called saintliness and so-called sin belong to the mind.…
— Rajneesh
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Most of the world's great souls have been lonely. Loneliness seems to be one price the saint must pay for his saintliness...…
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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Healing the wounds of the earth and its people does not require saintliness or a political party, only gumption and persistence. It…
— Paul Hawken
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Do not think that saintliness comes from occupation; it depends rather on what one is. The kind of work we do does…
— Meister Eckhart
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Saintliness is also a temptation.
— Jean Anouilh
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Today it is not nearly enough to be a saint, but we must have the saintliness demanded by the present moment, a…
— Simone Weil
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If one avoids haughtiness to the utmost extent and is exceedingly humble, he is termed a saint, and this is the standard…
— Maimonides
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In Jewish tradition, death-defying devotion to scholarship was the stuff of saintliness.
— Israel Shenker
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You don't have to be religious to have a soul; everybody has one. You don't have to be religious to perfect your…
— Harold S. Kushner
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Artists put as much vitality and delight into their saintliness and escape out as most men do their escapes into similar places…
— Wyndham Lewis
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