Judaism Quotes - Page 12

• I never paid much attention to being Jewish when I was a kid. In fact, I'd say my religion was more surfing than Judaism - that's what I spent most of my time doing.

  Julian Schnabel

  Kids, Surfing, Attention

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• If you take away the Jewish contribution to Christianity, there would be no Christianity. Judaism does not need Christianity to explain its existence; Christianity, however, cannot explain its existence without Judaism.

  John Hagee

  Doe, Would Be, Needs

  John Hagee (2013). “Four Blood Moons: Something Is About to Change”, p.12, Worthy Publishing

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• The wedding of Christianity or Judaism with nationalism is lethal.

  Arthur Miller

  Christianity, Nationalism

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• Christianity indeed has equaled Judaism in the atrocities, and exceeded it in the extent of its desolation. Eleven millions of men, women, and children have been killed in battle, butchered in their sleep, burned to death at public festivals of sacrifice, poisoned, tortured, assassinated, and pillaged in the spirit of the Religion of Peace, and for the glory of the most merciful God.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Religious, Children, Sleep

  Percy Bysshe Shelley, Homer, Euripides, Pedro Calderón de la Barca, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1929). “The Complete Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley”

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• I don't think any religion makes any sense and I think people who are into that are really getting duped, and I don't think Judaism makes any more sense than Christianity, and I don't think Christianity makes any more sense than Scientology. But here's a guy, L. Ron Hubbard, who told all his friends, 'Look, I'm gonna start a religion, 'cause I can't make any money as a science fiction writer.' I mean, he admitted that publicly! At least with Jesus Christ, you can't go talk to the guy.

  Howard Stern

  Jesus, Mean, Thinking

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• Eid is a time of joy, after a season of fasting and prayer and reflection. Each year, the end of Ramadan means celebration and thanksgiving for millions of Americans. And your joy during this season enriches the life of our great country. This year, Eid is celebrated at the same time as Hanukkah and Advent. So it's a good time for people of these great faiths, Islam, Judaism and Christianity, to remember how much we have in common: devotion to family, a commitment to care for those in need, a belief in God and His justice, and the hope for peace on earth.

  George W. Bush

  Country, Prayer, Inspiration

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• The ultimate goal is two states for two people: Israel as a Jewish state and the homeland for the Jewish people and the State of Palestine as the homeland for the Palestinian people - each state in joined self-determination, mutual recognition, and peace.

  Barack Obama

  Determination, Israel, Self

  Remarks by the President at the AIPAC Policy Conference 2011, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. May 22, 2011.

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• Even while we may at times disagree, as friends sometimes will, the bonds between the United States and Israel are unbreakable and the commitment of the United States to the security of Israel is ironclad.

  Barack Obama

  Commitment, Israel, May

  Remarks by the President at the AIPAC Policy Conference 2011 in Walter E. Washington Convention Center Washington, D.C., obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. May 22, 2011.

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• The Tanakh says John Lennon is wrong.

  Daniel Gordis

  Lennon

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• As for Israel, our friendship is rooted deeply in a shared history and shared values. Our commitment to Israel's security is unshakeable. And we will stand against attempts to single it out for criticism in international forums.

  Barack Obama

  Commitment, Israel, Criticism

  President Barack Obama's speech on Middle East and North Africaat the State Department in Washington, D.C., www.theguardian.com. May 19, 2011.

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• Never does the Tanakh suggest that our being a people means that only we have a right to an ancestral homeland and that other people don't.

  Daniel Gordis

  Mean, People, Doe

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• For the Palestinians' efforts to delegitimize Israel will end in failure. Palestinian leaders will not achieve peace or prosperity if Hamas insists on a path of terror and rejection. And Palestinians will never realize their independence by denying the right of Israel to exist.

  Barack Obama

  Israel, Rejection, Effort

  "George Mitchell and King Abdullah II". "This Week" with Christiane Amanpour, abcnews.go.com. May 22, 2011.

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• I'm not alive to be right. I'm here to care, to heal, to understand

  Jonathan Wittenberg

  Alive, Care, Heal

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• There is no spirituality without ethics

  Jonathan Wittenberg

  Ethics, Spirituality

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• Having people be afraid of you comes with responsibility.

  Daniel Gordis

  Responsibility, People

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• Church reminded me very much of going to shul. It was a bunch of men wearing long robes, speaking in a language I didn't understand.

  Amy-Jill Levine

  Men, Long, Church

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• I've got a good shepherd; you've got a sadistic dentist.

  Amy-Jill Levine

  Shepherds, Dentist, Sadistic

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• Our responsibility is to love God and to love our neighbour which is what Jesus taught and it's also what Judaism taught - and that would make sense because Jesus was Jewish.

  Amy-Jill Levine

  Jesus, Responsibility, Taught

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• A creative, thoughtful, and accomplished people such as the Jewish people should be known by what they have done and not by what has been done to them.

  Deborah Lipstadt

  Thoughtful, People, Creative

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• I will call not just on Israel, but on the Palestinians, on the Arab States, and the international community to join us in this effort, because the burden of making hard choices must not be Israel’s alone.

  Barack Obama

  Commitment, Israel, America

  Barack Obama's speech at the AIPAC Policy Conference at Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington, D.C., obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. May 22, 2011.

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• Even as we do all that's necessary to ensure Israel's security, even as we are clear-eyed about the difficult challenges before us, and even as we pledge to stand by Israel through whatever tough days lie ahead, I hope we do not give up on that vision of peace. For if history teaches us anything, if the story of Israel teaches us anything, it is that with courage and resolve, progress is possible. Peace is possible.

  Barack Obama

  Giving Up, Lying, Israel

  Remarks by the President at the AIPAC Policy Conference at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington, D.C., obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. May 22, 2011.

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• If these two couldn't divorce why on earth would we expect them to get married?

  Jonathan Freedland

  Divorce, Two, Earth

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• Angels appear to transcend all cultures, races, and systems. They are a part of human history and civilization, sometimes at the forefront, other times in the shadows, but they are always there. They don't belong to any one particular religion, although many modern people try to associate them with Christianity, Judaism, and Islam. No one religion holds total responsibility for the belief in angels. In truth, these religions only support the existence of angels, they didn't create them.

  Silver RavenWolf

  Responsibility, Angel, Race

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• ...until the Crusades Islam was indistinguishable from Judaism and... only then did it receive its independent character, while Muhammad and the first Caliphs are mythical figures.

  Nikolai Alexandrovich Morozov

  Character, Independent, Islam

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• [The canonization of the Koran involved the] attribution of several, partially overlapping, collections of logia [sayings] (exhibiting a distinctly Mosaic imprint) to the image of a Biblical prophet (modified by the material of the Muhammadan evangelium into an Arabian man of God) with a traditional message of salvation (modified by the influence of Rabbinic Judaism into the unmediated and finally immutable word of God).

  John Wansbrough

  Biblical, Men, Islam

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