Synagogue Quotes
62 quotes by 56 authors
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The style of God venerated in the church, mosque, or synagogue seems completely different from the style of the natural universe.
— Alan Watts
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The first album, for better or for worse, was done over from the ages of 17-22, with a couple of different producers. Some of it…
— Florence Welch
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People just sticking names on places, so that no one could see those places properly any more. Every time they looked at them or thought…
— John Marsden
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In the old days, it was not called the Holiday Season; the Christians called it 'Christmas' and went to church; the Jews called it 'Hanukkah'…
— Dave Barry
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At John Schlesinger's funeral at a synagogue in St John's Wood some years ago the person I stood next to said to me encouragingly, 'Come…
— Stephen Fry
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in the synagogue of my heart... I myself jail and the jailed, I go wounded, bite-marked
— Helene Cixous
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I leave it to the faithful to burn each other's churches and mosques and synagogues, which they can be always relied upon to do
— Christopher Hitchens
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Not specifically. "Demons have been on Earth as long as we have. They're all over the world, in their different forms – Greek daemons, Persian…
— Cassandra Clare
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The real act of marriage takes place in the heart, not in the ballroom or church or synagogue. It's a choice you make on your…
— Barbara De Angelis
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I try to be a good shiksa wife. I go to Central Synagogue in New York.
— Drew Barrymore
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I was raised in an observant Jewish household, so for me, Hebrew prayers - the sounds, the sunlight streaming in from the stained-glass windows of…
— Dani Shapiro
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Passover takes place in the home rather than the synagogue and centers around an epic meal - the seder - so you remember Passover as…
— Simon Schama
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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 guidance.
— David Novak
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The most important part of the process of mourning is regularly reciting kaddish in a synagogue. Kaddish is a doxology, which Jewish tradition has mandated…
— David Novak
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My parents were practicing Jews. My mother grew up in an orthodox synagogue, and after my grandfather died, she went to a conservative synagogue and…
— Judith Butler
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I had always known that I was Jewish - we celebrated the holidays, we went to a synagogue - but I had never known that…
— Caroline Leavitt
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Less than a year after the Sept. 11 attacks, al-Qaida attacks were continuing: the firebombing of a synagogue in Tunisia in April, a bomb outside…
— Bill Dedman
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These words spake his parents, because they feared the Jews: for the Jews had agreed already, that if any man did confess that he was…
— Bible
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One positive command he gave us: You shall love and honor your emperor. In every congregation a prayer must be said for the czar's health,…
— Mary Antin
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The real act of marriage takes place in the heart, not in the ballroom or church or synagogue. It's a choice you make - not…
— Barbara De Angelis
Who Wrote These Synagogue Quotes
56 authors contributed a total of 62 Synagogue Quotes, led by these top contributors: