Hebrew Quotes - Page 4

• You should do what we do, stack chips like *Hebrews*
  Don't let the melody intrigue you (uh-uh)
  Cause I leave you, I'm only here
  For that green paper which lead you

  Jadakiss

  Hip Hop, Paper, Green

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• Faith is for the future. Faith builds on the past but never longs to stay there. Faith trusts that God has great things in store for each of us and that Christ truly is the “high priest of good things to come” (Hebrews 9:11).

  Jeffrey R. Holland

  Past, Christ, Good Things

  "The Best Is Yet to Be" by Jeffrey R. Holland, www.lds.org. January 2010.

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• The Hebrew word, the word timshel - 'Thou mayest' - that gives a choice. It might be the most important word in the world. That says the way is open...Why, that makes a man great...He can choose his course and fight it through and win...I have a new love for that glittering instrument, the human soul. It is a lovely and unique thing in the universe. It is always attacked and never destroyed - because 'Thou mayest'. ch 24

  John Steinbeck

  Fighting, Winning, Unique

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• ["All the paths of the Lord are mercy and truth unto such as keep his covenant."] The original Hebrew word that has been translated "paths" means "well-worn roads' or "wheel tracks," such ruts as wagons make when they go down our green roads in wet weather and sink in up to the axles. God's ways are at times like heavy wagon tracks that cut deep into our souls, yet all of them are merciful.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Mean, Cutting, Weather

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• The Hebrew language will go from the synagogue to the house of study, and from the house of study to the school, and from the school it will come into the home and... become a living language

  Eliezer Ben-Yehuda

  Home, School, House

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• The Hebrew Bible contains multiple provisions to ensure that no one would go hungry. The corners of the field, forgotten sheaves of grain, gleanings that drop from the hands of the gleaner, and small clusters of grapes left on the vine were to be given to the poor.

  Jonathan Sacks

  Hands, Fields, Gleaning

  "Why Fighting Poverty and Hunger Is a Religious Duty" by Chief Rabbi Lord Sacks, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 26, 2013.

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• The God of the Hebrews is a God that human language, we're not even supposed to speak the holy name. We were told in the Second Commandment we could make no images of this God, and I don't think that means just building idols, I think that means also trying to believe you've captured God in your words, in the Creeds, in the Scriptures.

  John Shelby Spong

  Believe, Mean, Thinking

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• I might sing a gospel song in Arabic or do something in Hebrew. I want to mix it up and do it differently than one might imagine.

  Stevie Wonder

  Song, Want, Might

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• Mine was a patchwork God, sewn together from bits of rag and ribbon, Eastern and Western, pagan and Hebrew, everything but the kitchen sink and Jesus.

  Anne Lamott

  Jesus, Kitchen, Together

  Anne Lamott (2000). “Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith”, p.41, Anchor

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• I said it in Hebrew—I said it in Dutch— I said it in German and Greek; But I wholly forgot (and it vexes me much) That English is what you speak!

  Lewis Carroll

  Greek, Vex, Dutch

  Lewis Carroll “Alice in Wonderland”, W. W. Norton & Company

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• We must learn that competence is better than extravagance, that worth is better than wealth, that the golden calf we have worshiped has no more brains than that one of old which the Hebrews worshiped. So beware of money and of money's worth as the supreme passion of the mind. Beware of the craving for enormous acquisition.

  C. A. Bartol

  Money, Passion, Brain

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• [On the New Testament:] I ... must enter my protest against the false translation of some passages by the men who did that work, and against the perverted interpretation by the men who undertook to write commentaries thereon. I am inclined to think, when we [women] are admitted to the honor of studying Greek and Hebrew, we shall produce some various readings of the Bible a little different from those we now have.

  Sarah Moore Grimke

  Bible, Reading, Writing

  Sarah Moore Grimké, Mary S. Parker (1838). “Letters on the equality of the sexes, and the condition of woman: Addressed to Mary S. Parker”, p.16

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• in order to confer their lost Nationality upon exiled Jews , the British with the help of the League of Nations began to rehabilitate the old Hebrew country, Palestine, with its long lost children. The Jews had maintained their race, religion, culture and language; and all they wanted was their natural territory to complete their Nationality. The reconstruction of the Hebrew Nation on Palestine is just an affirmation of the fact that Country, Race, Religion, Culture and Language must exist unequivocally together to form the Nation idea.

  M. S. Golwalkar

  Country, Children, Order

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• I still live today with my mom sending me, you know, Hebrew Scriptures or phrases or celebrating.

  Trevor Noah

  Mom, Live For Today, Phrases

  Source: www.npr.org

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• At McCormick Theological Seminary I had to take Hebrew, so I began to read prophetic poetry, and suddenly it became the life I wanted to spend.

  Hershel Shanks

  Prophetic, Theological, Wanted

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

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• A 1998 study was done in Hebrew by an Israeli scholar, Yosef Grodzinsky, and the English translation of the title is Good Human Material. That's what they wanted sent to Palestine for colonization and for the eventual conflict that took place some years later. These policies were somewhat complementary to the U.S. policy of pressuring England to allow Jews to go to Palestine, but not allowing them here. The British politician Ernest Bevin was quite bitter about it, asking, "if you want to save the Jews, why send them to Palestine when you don't admit them?"

  Noam Chomsky

  Years, Titles, Asking

  Source: thehumanist.com

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• "You ought to be ashamed," a woman in an Easter bonnet told Stein. "Your race gave us our religion..." "From ancient polytheism, the belief in lots of gods," the woman continued a little more eruditely, "the Hebrew nation led us on to the idea that there is only one." "Which is just a step from the truth," said Stein.

  Peter De Vries

  Easter, Race, Ideas

  Peter De Vries (2012). “The Blood of the Lamb: A Novel”, p.207, University of Chicago Press

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• The Hebrew will turn Christian; he grows kind.

  William Shakespeare

  Christian, Kind, Turns

  'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 1, sc. 3, l. [179]

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• In high school I was voted the girl most likely to become a nun. That may not be impressive to you, but it was quite an accomplishment at the Hebrew Academy.

  Rita Rudner

  Girl, School, Accomplishment

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• While the business of education in Europe consists in lectures upon the ruins of Palmyra and the antiquities of Herculaneum , or in disputes about Hebrew points, Greek particles, or the accent and quantity of the Roman language, the youth of America will be employed in acquiring those branches of knowledge which increase the conveniences of life.

  Benjamin Rush

  Education, Country, Europe

  "Letters".

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• God has called His creation to find satisfaction in a personal relationship with Him, and stop trying to manage the world by conforming it to our expectations, and to allow Him to govern His creation. He continues to say through an ancient Hebrew worship song, "Be still and know that I am God!

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Song, Expectations, Trying

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• It was the craving to be a one and only people which impelled the ancient Hebrews to invent a one and only God whose one and only people they were to be.

  Eric Hoffer

  People, Being Positive, Atheism

  Eric Hoffer (1996). “The Passionate State of Mind”

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• Nature is not personal. She is the compound of all these processes which move through the universe to effect the results we know as Life and of all the ordinances which govern that universe and that make Life continuous. She is no more the Hebrew's Jehovah than she is the Physicist's Force; she is as much Providence as she is Electricity; she is not the Great Pattern any more than she is the Blind Chance.

  Luther Burbank

  Moving, Atheism, Patterns

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• It would be worthy of the age to print together the collected Scriptures or Sacred Writings of the several nations, the Chinese, the Hindoos, the Persians, the Hebrews, and others, as the Scripture of mankind. The New Testament is still, perhaps, too much on the lips and in the hearts of men to be called a Scripture in this sense. Such a juxtaposition and comparison might help to liberalize the faith of men.... This would be the Bible, or Book of Books, which let the missionaries carry to the uttermost parts of the earth.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Book, Writing, Heart

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.101, Xist Publishing

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

  Heinrich Heine

  Freedom, Liberty, Sin

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