Moses Quotes - Page 4

• It never occurred to him that now he was looking at his master, at the one person in all the world who held his fate right between her palms - me, in patched hand-me-downs and untrimmed hair and idiot smile - and that my hatred for him is pure and black and unforgiving. And that I don't believe in God, but if I did, if I did, it would be the God of Moses, angry and demanding and OUT FOR REVENGE.

  Elizabeth Wein

  Revenge, Believe, Fate

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• It is far better that we admitted a thousand devils to roam at large than that we permitted one such imposter and monster as Moses, Joshua, Samuel, and the Bible prophets, to come with the pretended word of God and have credit among us.

  Thomas Paine

  Religion, Devil, Monsters

  Thomas Paine (1835). “The Theological Works of Thomas Paine: The Most Complete Edition Ever Published”, p.151

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• Take away from Genesis the belief that Moses was the author, on which only the strange believe that it is the word of God has stood, and there remains nothing of Genesis but an anonymous book of stories, fables, and traditionary or invented absurdities, or of downright lies.

  Thomas Paine

  Lying, Believe, Book

  Thomas Paine (2016). “THOMAS PAINE Ultimate Collection: Political Works, Philosophical Writings, Speeches, Letters & Biography (Including Common Sense, The Rights of Man & The Age of Reason): The American Crisis, The Constitution of 1795, Declaration of Rights, Agrarian Justice, The Republican Proclamation, Anti-Monarchal Essay, Letters to Thomas Jefferson and George Washington…”, p.450, e-artnow

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• Moses lifting up his wand, and dividing the Red Sea, and Pharaoh in his chariot overwhelmed with the waters. This motto: "Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God."

  Benjamin Franklin

  4th Of July, Sea, Tyrants

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• Moses Kaldor had always loved mountains; they made him feel nearer to the God whose nonexistence he still sometimes resented.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Mountain, Sometimes, Made

  Arthur C. Clarke (2012). “The Songs of Distant Earth”, p.99, RosettaBooks

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• We know, on the authority of Moses, that longer than six thousand years the world did not exist.

  Martin Luther

  Religious, Humor, Years

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• The Hasidic rabbi, Zuscha, was asked on his deathbed what he thought the kingdom of God would be like. He replied, "I don't know. But one thing I do know. When I get there I am not going to be asked, 'Why weren't you Moses? Why weren't you David?' I am only going to be asked, 'Why weren't you Zuscha? Why weren't you fully you?'"

  Alan Loy McGinnis

  Self, Would Be, Kingdoms

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• In my town we studied the five Books of Moses, but rarely the prophets. We studied the Talmud so much that I sometimes knew the prophets because of the prophetic quotations in the Talmud. We almost never studied the prophets themselves.

  Elie Wiesel

  Book, Towns, Sometimes

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

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• Muslims are not bloodthirsty people. Islam is a religion of peace that forbids the killing of the innocent. Islam also accepts the Prophets, whether those prophets are Mohammed, God's peace and blessing be upon Him, or Moses or the other prophets of the Books.

  Abdullah of Saudi Arabia

  Book, Blessing, People

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• the life of Jesus recapitulates key elements in the earlier story of Israel. For a moment, as Jesus stands on the mountain giving the famous sermon, he is Moses. For a moment, answering his critics about his actions on the sabbath, he is David. For a moment, as he calls and names the twelve disciples, he is perhaps Jacob, bringing the twelve patriarchs into the world. For a moment, healing the sick and raising the dead, he is Elijah or Elisha. And so on. In the transfiguration he actually meets Moses and Elijah.

  N. T. Wright

  Jesus, Healing, Names

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• And here's Moses Kiptanui - the 19 year old Kenyan, who turned 20 a few weeks ago.

  David Coleman

  Silly, Years, Funny Sports

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• I figure a lot of folks are probably looking to find out if Moses Malone is into that stuff, but the closest I come to drugs is drinking a Coca-Cola. I don't want that cocaine; it's not for me.

  Moses Malone

  Drinking, Drug, Want

  Source: business.highbeam.com

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• While waiting for a Moses to lead us into the promised land, we have forgotten how to walk.

  Wendell Johnson

  Land, Waiting, Forgotten

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• Already by 1900 I could boast I had written as many books as Moses.

  Winston Churchill

  Book, Boast, Written

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Identity is not found, the way Pharaoh's daughter found Moses in the bulrushes. Identity is built.

  Margaret Halsey

  Daughter, Identity, Pharaohs

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• To me, God is the basic Reality of the universe. God is what is. That's how Moses wrote that God introduced Himself, isn't it? "I am that I am." God is. Whatever is, that is God.

  Michael Gungor

  Reality, Universe

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• I was taken in the Spirit to the burning bush on Mount Horeb, Moses' "first ascension," and allowed to witness the encounter he had with the Lord there. Throughout the visitation, I was enabled to know and feel the thoughts and emotions of Moses' inner being. ... There was a Holy Narrator beside me who helped me understand what I saw and heard, and he made references to relevant passages of Scripture. There were other Biblical figures also present - Joshua, Samuel, David, and even the Lord Jesus were there.

  Bob Hartley

  Jesus, Taken, Biblical

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• With the history of Moses no book in the world, in point of antiquity, can contend.

  John Tillotson

  Bible, Book, World

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• Many unbelievers have threatened or prophesied the destruction of the Bible. Few people know the names of the skeptics. Everyone knows the names of Moses and Isaiah and Luke and Paul.

  William Henry Houghton

  Names, People, Destruction

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• It was with good reason that God commanded through Moses that the vineyard and harvest were not to be gleaned to the last grape or grain; but something to be left for the poor. For covetousness is never to be satisfied; the more it has, the more it wants. Such insatiable ones injure themselves, and transform God's blessings into evil.

  Martin Luther

  Blessing, Evil, Vineyards

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• Moses, who said to the children of Israel, Wear your galoshes; I never did this trick before. Never got a dinner!

  Red Buttons

  Children, Israel, Dinner

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• Jesus and Lincoln, Moses and Jefferson can seem so long gone, so unbelievable, so dead.

  Sarah Vowell

  Jesus, Long, Gone

  Sarah Vowell (2005). “Assassination Vacation”, p.11, Simon and Schuster

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• Were Moses to go up Mount Sinai today, the two tablets he'd bring down with him would be aspirin and Prozac.

  Joseph A. Califano, Jr.

  Two, Addiction, Would Be

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• Some drill and bore
  The solid earth, and from the strata there
  Extract a register, by which we learn,
  That he who made it, and reveal'd its date
  To Moses, was mistaken in its age.

  William Cowper

  Science, Age, Earth

  William Cowper (1855). “The Complete Poetical Works of William Cowper: With Life, and Critical Notice of His Writings. Eight Engravings on Steel”, p.151

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• We [Israel people] always blame Moses, that he was our greatest leader and one of the most gifted people in the world. He brought us the moral code and so on, belief in one God, but then he was a bad navigator. He brought us to the only part of the Middle East without any gas, without any oil.

  Benjamin Netanyahu

  Israel, Oil, People

  Source: piersmorgan.blogs.cnn.com

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