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The one and only time I met Pope Benedict XVI was when he was Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger.
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Although most Christian churches advocate some sort of mission to non-Christians, no Jewish group advocates a mission to non-Jews. Proselytization seems to…
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We Jews who willingly and happily confirm our covenantal status and its attendant rights and duties must take the question of mission…
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A religious commitment coupled with theological awareness gives Jews a much better way to answer the claims made upon us by missionaries…
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Proselytizing is only wrong if coercive or deceptive. Coercion, whether violent or not, is immoral, just as deception is immoral.
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Theology always has moral implications, and morality is always undergirded by theology.
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The common moral praxis of Jews and Christians is most definitely theologically informed by the doctrine we share in common: The human…
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A traditional rabbi is the man to whom the community and its members turn to rule on what Jewish law requires of…
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The rabbi is often the regular preacher in the synagogue, the man whose sermons offer his community more general theological and moral…
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When modern political Zionism emerged around the turn of the twentieth century, most Orthodox Jews opposed it.
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As a traditional Jew, I have benefited personally from the hospitality of Chabad Hasidim on many occasions, and I marvel at how…
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Even when God chose Israel, he did not create the people of Israel as he created its human members, as natural beings.…
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If isolation tempers the strong, it is the stumbling-block of the uncertain.
— Paul Cezanne
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I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in the stride toward freedom is not the White…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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If science could get rid of consciousness, it would have disposed of the only stumbling block to its universal application.
— Brand Blanshard
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The path to inspiration starts upon the trails we've known; each stumbling block is not a rock, but just a stepping stone.
— Charles Ghigna
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This is the greatest stumbling block in our spiritual discipline, which, in actuality, consists not in getting rid of the self but…
— Thomas Merton
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[T]he man who, in the concrete pressure of a struggle for national independence by a single people, had the coolness, forecast, and…
— Abraham Lincoln
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Its authors meant it to be... a stumbling block to those who in after times might seek to turn a free people…
— Abraham Lincoln
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Racism may be as systemic as it always was. It is the great problem of America. It's the one stumbling block that…
— Robert Guillaume
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And though it be their sin and vanity that is the cause [of lust], it is nevertheless your sin to be the…
— Richard Baxter
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Utopians...consider individual freedom as the stumbling block on which the grandiose idea of mankind's totalization may flounder.
— Thomas Steven Molnar
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Everyone faces defeat. It may be a stepping-stone or a stumbling block, depending on the mental attitude with which it is faced.
— Napoleon Hill
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The real stumbling-block of totalitarian regimes is not the spiritual need of men for freedom of thought; it is men's inability to…
— Simone Weil
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