Jewish Faith Quotes

• The Jews themselves, of whom a considerable number were already scattered throughout the colonies, were true to the teachings of their prophets. The Jewish faith is predominantly the faith of liberty.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Teaching, Numbers, Israel

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• Abraham is trying to obey God, but not to kill. I feel that moment is one of the defining moments of Jewish faith.

  Elie Wiesel

  Trying, Defining Moments, That Moment

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

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• In school they told me I was a Jew, "a filthy Jew." At first I asked myself what exactly that was. But then I began to understand. I was a Jew, I was a member of the Jewish faith, the Jewish community. One time, when I was giving a reading at a school, someone asked me: "If it was so dangerous to be Jewish, why didn't you convert to Christianity?" My response was: "It's not as easy you think. When you're a Jew, you're a Jew.

  Anita Lasker-Wallfisch

  Reading, School, Thinking

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• The five points of yama, together with the five points of niyama, remind us of the Ten Commandments of the Christtian and Jewish faiths, as well as of the ten virtues of Buddhism. In fact, there is no religion without these moral or ethical codes. All spiritual life should be based on these things. They are the foundation stones without which we can never build anything lasting. (127)

  Swami Satchidananda

  Spiritual, Buddhism, Together

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• The Talmud: Heart's Blood of the Jewish Faith.

  Herman Wouk

  Heart, Blood, Jew

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• We were born in a Jewish world, as part of a Jewish faith tradition. We had to translate ourselves into the neo-Platonic thinking Greek world; that took us about 400 years. Then, finally a man named Augustine, the Bishop of Hippo, recast Christianity in terms of neo-Platonic thought.

  John Shelby Spong

  Men, Thinking, Years

  Source: mormon-chronicles.blogspot.com

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• Although both sides of my family were religious, I was never forced to practice the Jewish faith. I did not really rebel against it, but then, as today, I disliked organized religion. I have a strange inhibition about praying with others.

  Georg Solti

  Religious, Practice, Rebel

  Georg Solti, Harvey Sachs (1997). “Solti on Solti: a memoir”, Vintage

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• "I am not an American of JEWISH faith. I am a JEW. I have been a JEW for a thousand years. Hitler was right in one thing. He calls the Jewish people a race, and we are a race."

  Stephen Samuel Wise

  Race, Years, People

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• If I had to refute all the other articles of the Jewish faith, I should be obliged to write against them as much and for as long a time as they have used for inventing their lies - that is, longer than two thousand years.

  Martin Luther

  Lying, Writing, Years

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• I am half-Jewish, and yet really hadn't been brought up within the Jewish faith. So I had felt culturally Jewish, if that's possible, without really understanding it.

  Rebecca Miller

  Understanding, Half, Felt

  "Author Rebecca Miller Talks Male Perspective, Piecing Together a Novel, and Fly Sex in Jacob's Folly". Interview with Kayla Tanenbaum, www.glamour.com. March 11, 2013.

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• We certainly love the Muslim people. But that is not the faith of this country. And that is not the religion that built this nation. The people of the Christian faith and the Jewish faith are the ones who built America, and it is not Islam.

  Franklin Graham

  Christian, Country, America

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• Anti-Semitism is not based on strictly religious grounds and is not directed against the Jewish faith as such. However, all German Christians resent and denounce the fact that the Jews have been the chief advocates of atheism. They have influenced the workers' children through the Communist youth organizations, of which they are the leading spirit.

  Ernst Hanfstaengl

  Christian, Religious, Children

  "Nazis in the News: 1933". www.pbs.org. March 5, 1933.

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• I think there's nothing better in the world than a spirited discussion about the Bible and Jesus and God and the Catholic faith, or the Jewish faith, or the Muslim faith--- any religion.

  Elizabeth Vargas

  Jesus, Thinking, Muslim Faith

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• [May] this civic and social landmark [the Washington, D.C., Jewish Community Center] ... be a constant reminder of the inspiring service that has been rendered to civilization by men and women of the Jewish faith. May [visitors] recall the long array of those who have been eminent in statecraft, in science, in literature, in art, in the professions, in business, in finance, in philanthropy and in the spiritual life of the world.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Spiritual, Art, Science

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• The orthodox Jewish faith practically excludes woman from religious life.

  Abraham Cahan

  Religious, Orthodox, Religious Life

  Abraham Cahan (2013). “The Rise of David Levinsky”, p.44, Courier Corporation

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• The most that one of Jewish faith can do - and some have gladly done it - is to say that Jesus was the greatest in the long succession of Jewish prophets. None can acknowledge that Jesus was the Messiah without becoming a Christian.

  Kenneth Scott Latourette

  Christian, Jesus, Long

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