Binding Quote by Elie Wiesel Download Open image “Christians call it the "Sacrifice of Isaac," and Jews call it the "Binding of Isaac."” — Elie Wiesel ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Binding Binding Isaac Christian Christianity Christians Sacrifice Isaac Jew Jews Binding Judaism Sacrifice Sacrifice Isaac
I think [Sacrifice of Isaac] is the most important event in the Bible except for Sinai. — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
Sacrifice is the first element of religion, and resolves itself in theological language into the love of God. — James Anthony Froude Copy Share Image
“Gen 22:11–16a The story of the near-sacrifice of Isaac is traced to E. It refers to the deity as Elohim in vv. 1,3,8, and… — Richard Elliott Friedman Copy Share Image
After their return from Babylon, the practice of human sacrifice died out among the Jews, but survived as an ideal in one of its… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
“The biblical story of the binding of Isaac shows that human sacrifice was far from unthinkable in the 1st millennium BCE. The Israelites boasted… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
When I consider the cross of Christ, how can anything that I do be called sacrifice? — Amy Carmichael Copy Share Image
“The willingness to sacrifice that springs from a loving heart rather than the desire for spiritual distinction is surely acceptable to God. But, as… — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
The peculiar doctrine of Christianity is that of a universal sacrifice and perpetual propitiation. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
[Sacrifice of Isaac] is a major theme of the so-called Elohist [one authorial strand in the Pentateuch]. It is marked by all of his… — Frank Moore Cross Copy Share Image
Christianity is, above all other religions ever known, a religion of sacrifice. It is a religion founded on the greatest of all sacrifices, the… — Arthur Penrhyn Stanley Copy Share Image
A religious person answers to God, not to the elected or non-elected official. — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
One more stab to the heart, one more reason to hate. One less reason to live. — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
“What all these victims need above all is to know that they are not alone; that we are not forgetting them, that when their… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
I feel that books, just like people, have a destiny. Some invite sorrow, others joy, some both. — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
[Chinese] are a huge empire now, you'll soon be - in a few years two billion people in the world. So, you should be… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
Did I write it so as not to go mad or, on the contrary, to go mad in order to understand the nature of… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
Take the story of Cain and Abel. Why were we given that story? Scientifically, you may have an explanation for it, but I'm not… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
Mankind must remember that peace is not God's gift to his creatures; peace is our gift to each other. — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
The world? The world is not interested in us. Today, everything is possible, even the crematoria... — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
I think this century more than any other really has seen the phenomenon of people being uprooted in such numbers, such a degree. They… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
His cold eyes stared at me. At last, he said wearily: "I have more faith in Hitler than in anyone else. He alone has… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
In this choice of inheritance we have given to our frame of polity the image of a relation in blood; binding up the constitution… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
“My heart almost vaulted out of my chest. I was snuggled against Ryan’s shoulder. We were burrowed under the cloak and sleeping bag, and… — Sam Dogra Copy Share Image
One thing that Chairman Mao did was to end the appalling foot binding of women. That alone justifies the Mao Tse-tung era. — Ken Livingstone Copy Share Image
The ultimate binding element in the medieval order was subordination to the divine will and its earthly representatives, notably the pope. — Irving Babbitt Copy Share Image
When I stand in a library where is all the recorded wit of the world, but none of the recording, a mere accumulated, and… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
There is one single thread binding my way together...the way of the Master consists in doing one's best...that is all. — Confucius Copy Share Image
The future belongs to social media. It is egalitarian and inclusive. Social media is not about any country, any language, any colour, any community… — Narendra Modi Copy Share Image
To regard human beings as tools - as instruments - for the use of other human beings is not only unscientific but it is… — Alfred Korzybski Copy Share Image
To a man who is uncorrupt and properly constituted, woman always remains something of a mystery and a romance. He never interprets her quite… — James Parton Copy Share Image
And priests in black gowns were walking their rounds and binding with briars my joys and desires. (from 'The Garden of Love') — William Blake Copy Share Image
There comes not seldom a crisis in the life of men, of nations, and of worlds, when the old forms seem ready to decay,… — Benjamin N. Cardozo Copy Share Image
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