"The unlettered man who prayed to his maker……" — Israel Shenker
"The unlettered man who prayed to his maker would be heard; the pedant reciting a faultless invocation would be ignored."
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20 Quotes by Israel Shenker
Israel Shenker has 20 quotes on this site.
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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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In the Bible, fate was often presented as the handmaiden of morality: sin was succeeded by misfortune, righteousness by prosperity,…
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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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More Faultless Quotes
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one of 37 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Every human being's essential nature is perfect and faultless, but after years of immersion in the world we easily forget…
— Laozi
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If we could wake each morning with no memory of living before we went to sleep, we might arrive at…
— Christopher Fry
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If you are looking for a friend who is faultless, you will be friendless.
— Rumi
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A single bad habit will mar an otherwise faultless character, as an ink-drop soileth the pure white page.
— Hosea Ballou
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To forgive a fault in another is more sublime than to be faultless one's self.
— George Sand
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Rising early and scorning laziness, remaining calm in time of strife, faultless in conduct and clever in actions. One like…
— Gautama Buddha
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The workman mindful of success, therefore, will naturally direct his attention to the faultless preparation of his stock, and in…
— Auguste Escoffier
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There is no one without faults, not even men of God. They are men of God not because they are…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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Christmas in Bethlehem. The earliest dream: a cold, clear night made bright by a magnificent star, the smell of anger,…
— Lucinda Franks
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Were we faultless, we would not derive such satisfaction from remarking the faults of others.
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Faultless to a fault.
— Robert Browning
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The faultless formulas of television-the ones that last-are simple.
— Dick Clark
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