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“Passover has a message for the conscience and the heart of all mankind. For what does it commemorate? It commemorates the deliverance of a people from degrading slavery, from most foul and cruel...
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“We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately.” –Benjamin Franklin (1776)
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“If we will it, it will not be just a dream.”–Theodor Herzl, father of modern Zionism
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“No power on earth or in hell can conquer the Spirit of God in a human spirit.”— Oswald Chambers
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“One can reformulate and restyle the festivals to a certain extent, but one cannot create something from nothing… Celebrate the festivals of our ancestors and add to them something of your own… those...
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“And the truth is that millennia ago there was a Jewish kingdom of Judea and Samaria where our kings knelt to God, where our prophets brought forth the vision of eternal peace, where we developed a...
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“If men of wisdom and knowledge, of moderation and temperance, of patience, fortitude and perseverance, of sobriety and true republican simplicity of manners, of zeal for the honour of the Supreme...
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“What were we made for? To know God. What aim should we set ourselves in life? To know God. What is the ‘eternal life’ that Jesus gives? Knowledge of God.”—J.I. Packer, Knowing God
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“I believe time is the hardest thing to manage properly in our lives. I believe that the stewardship of time is perhaps the supreme test of our discipline and our real Christianity. And so I pray like...
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“In our own lives God speaks slowly, a syllable at a time.”–Rabbi Joshua Heschel
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“Only in moments when we are able to share in the spirit of awe that fills the world are we able to understand what happened at Sinai. Revelation means that the thick silence which fills the endless...
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“The Son of God became a man to enable men to become the sons of God.” —-C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity
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“If there had been no Jews, there would be no patriarchs, no prophets, no apostles, no Bible, and no Savior. How much would any of us have without those five things? No wonder Jesus Himself said in...
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“The rearticulation of Christian attitudes toward Judaism and the determination to end the teaching of contempt toward the Jewish religion already constitute one of the great moral cleansing...
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“As the historian of Anti-Semitism looks back over the millennia of horrors he has recorded, an inescapable conclusion emerges: Anti-Semitism is the longest and deepest hatred of human history. Other...
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“Silence in the face of evil is itself evil: God will not hold us guiltless. Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act.”—Deitrich Bonhoeffer, from his prison cell in Germany, 1943
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“To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.” – George Washington
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“You were given the choice between war and dishonor. You chose dishonor and you will have war.”—Winston Churchill after Chamberlain signed the Munich pact
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“The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but to reveal to him his own.” – Benjamin Disraeli
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“Those who don’t know how to weep with their whole heart, don’t know how to laugh, either.” — Golda Meir
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