Moses Quotes - Page 12

• I like to read about Moses best, in th' Old Testament. He carried a hard business well through, and died when other folks were going to reap the fruits; a man must have courage to look after his life so, and think what'll come f it after he's dead and gone.

  George Eliot

  Courage, Men, Thinking

  George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.329, Wordsworth Editions

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• Which is the more believable of the two, Moses or China?

  Blaise Pascal

  Two, Religion, China

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• There have been many men who left behind them that which hundreds of years have not worn out. The earth has Socrates and Plato to this day. The world is richer yet by Moses and the old prophets than by the wisest statesmen. We are indebted to the past. We stand in the greatness of ages that are gone rather than in that of our own. But of how many of us shall it be said that, being dead, we yet speak?

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Plato, Greatness, Men

  Henry Ward Beecher (1866). “Royal Truths”, p.87

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• Africa has her mouth on Moses.

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Mouths

  Zora Neale Hurston, Alice Walker (1979). “I Love Myself when I Am Laughing ... and Then Again when I Am Looking Mean and Impressive: A Zora Neale Hurston Reader”, p.219, Feminist Press at CUNY

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• Perhaps dirt is the necessary condition of beauty.... Perhaps hygiene and art can never be bedfellows. No Verdi, after all, without spitting into trumpets. No Duse without a crowd of malodorous bourgeois giving one another their coryzas. And think of the inexpugnable retreats for microbes prepared by Michelangelo in the curls of Moses' beard!

  Aldous Huxley

  Art, Reality, Thinking

  Aldous Huxley (1953). “The collected works of Aldous Huxley”

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• I'm the most recognized and loved man that ever lived cuz there weren't no satellites when Jesus and Moses were around, so people far away in the villages didn't know about them.

  Muhammad Ali

  Jesus, Men, People

  Muhammad Ali (2016). “Muhammad Ali Unfiltered: Rare, Iconic, and Officially Authorized Photos of the Greatest”, p.69, Simon and Schuster

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• Should a priest reject relativity because it contains no authoritative exposition on the doctrine of the Trinity? Once you realize that the Bible does not purport to be a textbook of science, the old controversy between religion and science vanishes . . . The doctrine of the Trinity is much more abstruse than anything in relativity or quantum mechanics; but, being necessary for salvation, the doctrine is stated in the Bible. If the theory of relativity had also been necessary for salvation, it would have been revealed to Saint Paul or to Moses.

  Georges Lemaitre

  Doe, Saint, Doctrine

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• The air in a man's lungs 10,000,000,000, 000,000,000,000 atoms, so that sooner or later every one of us breathes an atom that has been breathed before by anyone you can think of who has ever lived - Michelangelo or George Washington or Moses.

  Jacob Bronowski

  Men, Thinking, Air

  "The Common Sense of Science". Book by Jacob Bronowski, 1951.

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• He whose birth we commemorate this season is more than the symbol of a holiday. He is the Son of God, the Creator of the earth, the Jehovah of the Old Testament, the fulfillment of the Law of Moses, the Redeemer of mankind, the King of Kings, the Prince of Peace.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Kings, Holiday, Son

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• Robert Moses wasn't elected to anything. We're taught that in a democracy power comes from being elected. He had more power than anyone, and he held it for 48 years

  Robert Caro

  Years, Democracy, Taught

  FaceBook post by Robert A. Caro from Jan 12, 2012

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• There prevails still a subtle form of legalism which would rob the Saviour of his crown of glory, earned by the cross, and would make of him a second Moses, offering us the stones of the law instead of the life-bread of the gospel.

  Geerhardus Vos

  Offering, Law, Crowns

  Geerhardus Vos (2015). “Grace and Glory”, p.63, Booklassic

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• Moses probably danced a little, right? You don't part the Red Sea without having some moves.

  Dick Van Dyke

  Moving, Sea, Littles

  "Dick Van Dyke: Icon". Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.ericspitznagel.com. September 14, 2016.

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• Moses tried to separate his people from Pharaoh, and when he tried, the magicians tried to fool the people into staying with the Pharaoh, and we look upon these other organizations that are trying to get Negroes to integrate with this doomed white man as nothing but modern-day magicians, and The Honorable Elijah Muhammad is a modern-day Moses trying to separate us from the modern-day Pharaoh.

  Malcolm X

  Men, White Man, Organization

  Source: teachingamericanhistory.org

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• I don't remember Moses writing, 'Thou shalt not kill.. unless you think you have a good reason.

  Willie Nelson

  Peace, Writing, Thinking

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• The black man in America's position is parallel with that of the Jews, especially when the Jews were in bondage under Pharaoh. And at no time did Moses in the Bible ever try and integrate the Hebrews into the Egyptian society or accept any hypocritical offers made by the slave master of that day.

  Malcolm X

  Men, America, Black

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• One day - I remember it was a Sabbath afternoon - I came to the synagogue with a book in my hand. I saw a commentary on the Bible by a certain Rabbi Moshe Dessauer, better known as Moses Mendelssohn. An elderly man came up to me - I was then maybe 10 or 12. "What are you studying?" he said. "Dessauer's commentaries," I said. So he gave me a slap on my face.

  Elie Wiesel

  Book, Men, Elderly

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

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• Moses is our true founding father.

  Bruce Feiler

  Father, Founding

  "This Month in Moses: How the Bible’s Greatest Hero Became America’s Greatest Icon" by Bruce Feiler, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 14, 2010.

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• I do not want you to follow me or anyone else; if you are looking for a Moses to lead you out of this capitalist wilderness, you will stay right where you are. I would not lead you into the promised land if I could, because if I led you in, some one else would lead you out.

  Eugene V. Debs

  Business, Land, Want

  "Debs: His Life, Writings and Speeches". Book edited by Stephen Marion Reynolds and Bruce Rogers (Life of Eugene V. Debs, p. 71), 1908.

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• Lycurgus, Numa, Moses, Jesus Christ, Mohammed, all these great rogues, all these great thought-tyrants, knew how to associate the divinities they fabricated with their own boundless ambition.

  Marquis de Sade

  Jesus, Ambition, Tyrants

  Marquis de Sade “Philosophy in the Bedroom: An Erotic Novel”, Library of Alexandria

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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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• Those to whom his word was revealed were always alone in some remote place, like Moses. There wasn't anyone else around when Mohammed got the word either. Mormon Joseph Smith and Christian Scientist, Mary Baker Eddy, had exclusive audiences with God. We have to trust them as reporters--and you know how reporters are. They'll do anything for a story.

  Andy Rooney

  Christian, Atheist, Religion

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• Moses led his people through the wilderness and he wasn't permitted to enter the Promised Land. Jesus was crucified. Mohammad founded a state which soon became an empire, so that Islam from the very beginning is involved with government, with politics. And therefore there is a very clear strong political tradition in Islam.

  Bernard Lewis

  Jesus, Strong, People

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• Christ is no Moses, no exactor, no giver of laws, but a giver of grace, a Savior; he is infinite mercy and goodness, freely and bountifully given to us.

  Martin Luther

  Law, Grace, Infinite

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• Just like Pharaoh couldn't get a solution to his problem until he talked to Moses, or Nebuchadnezzar or Belshazzar couldn't get a solution to his problem until he talked to Daniel, the white man in America today will never understand the race problem or come anywhere near getting a solution to the race problem until he talks to The Honorable Elijah Muhammad.

  Malcolm X

  Men, Race, White Man

  Source: teachingamericanhistory.org

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• I would love to be Moses.

  Dick Van Dyke

  "Dick Van Dyke: Icon". Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.ericspitznagel.com. September 14, 2016.

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