"In the Bible, fate was often presented as……" — Israel Shenker
"In the Bible, fate was often presented as the handmaiden of morality: sin was succeeded by misfortune, righteousness by prosperity, with reward and punishment instrumental in persuading man to obey divine commandments."
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20 Quotes by Israel Shenker
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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…
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America has a way of inventing tradition each morning and erasing the past by nightfall, and thehold of ancient custom…
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At Vatican Council II, one dissenting Roman Catholic theologian declared: "Yes, the Bible says "Be fruitful and multiply," but that…
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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…
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A [Jewish] woman could not divorce her husband, but she could petition for divorce, and the religious courts could force…
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It was God who dictated what man should believe and do, leaving man the freedom to accept or scoff, to…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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,…
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The unlettered man who prayed to his maker would be heard; the pedant reciting a faultless invocation would be ignored.
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I read Shakespeare and the Bible, and I can shoot dice. That's what I call a liberal education.
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Energy, like the biblical grain of the mustard-seed, will remove mountains.
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Some quality performances and movies have a chance to be rewarded, but it's not like it's a bible.
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The fundamental story arc of the Bible is God is passionate about rescuing this world, restoring it, renewing it.
— Rob Bell
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Both read the Bible day and night, but thou read black where I read white.
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My ancestors wandered lost in the wilderness for forty years because even in biblical times, men would not stop to…
— Elayne Boosler
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