Exodus Quotes

• I think if the general exodus that seems to be going on occurs it's going to be a disaster,.

  David Graeber

  Thinking, Disaster, Seems

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• The Exodus from Egypt occurs in every human being, in every era, in every year, and in every day.

  Nachman of Breslov

  Egypt, Years, Eras

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• It is quite exhilarating to speak about a God who has an incredible bias, a notorious bias in favor of the downtrodden. You look at Exodus and the Israelites' escape from a bottomless pit. God is not evenhanded. God is biased up to his eyebrows.

  Desmond Tutu

  Eyebrows, Looks, Pits

  "Archbishop Desmond Tutu Loves Pope Francis, Speaks On Gay Rights, War in Syria, Accusations Of Anti-Semitism". Interview With Sarah Pulliam Bailey, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 13, 2013.

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• God's careful instructions for building the tabernacle in Exodus 31 remind us that his perfection sets the standard for whatever we create in his name. Whatever we happen to make-not only in the visual arts, but in all the arts-we should make it as well as we can, offering God our very best.

  Philip Graham Ryken

  Art, Offering, Names

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• Jews read the books of Moses not just as history but as divine command. The question to which they are an answer is not, "What happened?" but rather, "How then shall I live?" And it's only with the exodus that the life of the commands really begins.

  Jonathan Sacks

  Book, Answers, Moses

  "Passover’s Freedom Is Control Over Time" by Chief Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 12, 2012.

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• Love looks to the eternal. Love is indeed "ecstasy," not in the sense of a moment of intoxication, but rather as a journey, an on-going exodus out of the closed inward-looking self toward its liberation through self-giving... toward authentic self-discovery and indeed the discovery of God.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Faith, Inspiration, Journey

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• The most significant indicator that there is no disaster in Iraq is the fact that there is no exodus.

  Bashar al-Assad

  Iraq, Facts, Disaster

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• For nearly 3,500 years Exodus has left such an imprint on people's memories that I cannot imagine it had been invented just as a legend or a tale.

  Elie Wiesel

  Memories, Years, People

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

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• Through centuries of struggle, Jews across the world have been witnesses not only against the crimes of men, but for faith in God and God alone. Theirs is a story of defiance and oppression, and patience in tribulation reaching back to the exodus and their exile. That story continued in the founding of the state of Israel. That story continues in the defense of the state of Israel.

  George W. Bush

  Struggle, Men, Israel

  "Bush Speaks At Holocaust Memorial Event". CNN Live Event/Special, www.cnn.com. April 19, 2001.

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• People get overwhelmed with folklore as fact. Take the Exodus. The Exodus did not occur. It could not have occurred. Wasn't necessary for it to occur. The Jews walked into Africa over a 16-mile land until they built the Suez Canal - that land is still there. Why would they have to leave by the sea. They didn't come by the sea. Certain people think you are against their religion when you use common sense.

  John Henrik Clarke

  Thinking, Sea, Land

  Source: www.ourtimepress.com

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• The founder of every ex-gay ministry in America has proved to be an extraordinary failure. The two founders of Exodus International, [the world's largest 'ex-gay' organization], divorced their wives to move in together.

  Wayne Besen

  Moving, Gay, Organization

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• I read the text; and then I come to the Shirat ha-Yam, to the Song of the Sea [Exodus 15], to the poetry. Who could have written such a poem except someone who went through it? It is so full of life, so full of truth, of passion, of concern. And the thousands and thousands of commentaries in the Talmudic tradition that have been written on it. It had to have happened. But even if not, I would attribute the same beauty to the text as I do now.

  Elie Wiesel

  Song, Passion, Yams

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

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• There is a movement in club football, which I don't necessarily consider a prime example of solidarity, because it leads us to conclude the rich are getting richer and they are using everything in the market to create an exodus from Africa.

  Sepp Blatter

  Football, Example, Movement

  "Fifa sets up corruption task force" by Matt Scott, www.theguardian.com. September 12, 2005.

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• The fundamental basis of this Nation's law was given to Moses on the Mount. The fundamental basis of our Bill of Rights comes from the teachings which we get from Exodus and St. Matthew, from Isaiah and St. Paul.

  Harry S. Truman

  Bible, God, Religious

  United States. President (1945-1953 : Truman), Harry S. Truman (1961). “Harry S. Truman: Containing the Public Messages, Speeches, and Statements of the President, 1945-53”

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• The actual evidence concerning the Exodus resembles the evidence for the unicorn.

  Baruch Halpern

  Unicorn, Evidence

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• It's no secret that in New York during the last 30 years there has been a tragic exodus from the churches into materialism, secularism and humanism.

  Billy Graham

  New York, Years, Secret

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• Since the Exodus, freedom has always spoken with a Hebrew accent.

  Heinrich Heine

  Freedom, Liberty, Hebrew

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• While the Passover narrative [in Exodus] energizes Israel's imagination toward justice, Israel's hard work of implementation of that imaginative scenario was done at Mt. Sinai. . . . Moses' difficult work at Sinai is to transform the narrative vision of the Exodus into a sustainable social practice that has institutional staying-power, credibility, and authority.

  Walter Brueggemann

  Hard Work, Difficult Work, Israel

  Walter Brueggemann (1999). “The Covenanted Self: Explorations in Law and Covenant”, p.49, Fortress Press

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• We don’t ask why God chose as his prophet a stutterer with a public speaking phobia. But we should. The book of Exodus is short on explication, but its stories suggest that introversion plays yin to the yang of extroversion; that the medium is not always the message; and that people followed Moses because his words were thoughtful, not because he spoke them well.

  Susan Cain

  Book, Thoughtful, Play

  Susan Cain (2012). “Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking”, p.61, Broadway Books

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• The Bible cares about the systems that create oppression. We see this in the Exodus all the way to Jesus' interactions with Zacchaeus and the prostitute in John 8.

  Sho Baraka

  Jesus, Care, Way

  Source: www.christianpost.com

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• Ecclesiastes names thee Almighty, the Maccabees name thee Creator, the Epistle to the Ephesians names thee Liberty, Baruch names thee Immensity, the Psalms name thee Wisdom and Truth, John names thee Light, the Book of Kings names thee Lord, Exodus names thee Providence, Leviticus Sanctity, Esdras Justice, creation names thee God, man names thee Father; but Solomon names thee Compassion, which is the most beautiful of all thy names.

  Victor Hugo

  Beautiful, God, Kings

  Victor Hugo (1980). “Les misérables”, Viking Pr

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• The God of Exodus is the God of history and of political liberation more than he is the God of nature.

  Gustavo Gutiérrez

  Political, Liberation

  Gustavo Gutiérrez (1973). “A Theology of Liberation: History, Politics, and Salvation”

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• With all due respect for the wondrous ways people have invented to amuse themselves and one another on paved surfaces, I find that this exodus from the land makes me unspeakably sad. I think of the children who will never know, intuitively, that a flower is a plant's way of making love, or what silence sounds like, or that trees breathe out what we breathe in.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Nature, Children, Flower

  Barbara Kingsolver (2011). “Small Wonder”, p.48, Faber & Faber

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• I see a sequence of seven main phases: creation,revolution or exodus (Israel in Egypt), law, wisdom, prophecy, gospel, and apocalypse.

  Northrop Frye

  Egypt, Law, Israel

  Northrop Frye, Alvin A. Lee (2006). “The Great Code: The Bible and Literature”, p.126, University of Toronto Press

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• If blacks are oppressed in America, why isn’t there a black exodus?

  David Horowitz

  America, Black, Oppressed

  David Horowitz (2016). “Progressive Racism”, p.64, Encounter Books

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