Synagogue Quotes - Page 3

• A survey carried out across the U.S. between 2004 and 2006 showed that frequent church- or synagogue-goers are more likely to give money to charity.

  Jonathan Sacks

  Giving, Church, Charity

  Jonathan Sacks (2011). “The Great Partnership: God, Science and the Search for Meaning”, p.224, Hachette UK

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• Not specifically. "Demons have been on Earth as long as we have. They're all over the world, in their different forms – Greek daemons, Persian daevas, Hindu asuras, Japanese oni. Most belief systems have some method of incorporating both their existence and the fight against them. Shadowhunters cleave to no single religion, and in turn all religions assist us in our battle. I could as easily have gone for help to a Jewish synagogue or a Shinto temple, or – Ah. Here it is.

  Cassandra Clare

  Fighting, Long, Greek

  Cassandra Clare (2012). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls”, p.246, Simon and Schuster

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• There should be no mosque near Ground Zero in New York so long as there are no churches or synagogues in Saudi Arabia.

  Newt Gingrich

  New York, Zero, Long

  "The Proposed New York Mosque and the Constitution" by Peter Ferrara, www.foxnews.com. August 04, 2010.

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• The first album, for better or for worse, was done over from the ages of 17-22, with a couple of different producers. Some of it was recorded in an old swimming pool, some of it was recorded in a synagogue - it kind of was all over the place.

  Florence Welch

  Couple, Swimming, Age

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• Ask me, it's a sin to pervert faith with religion. Despite every church, mosque, & synagogue in it, this is not the world any God worth his salt would have created.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Church, Mosques, World

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• At John Schlesinger's funeral at a synagogue in St John's Wood some years ago the person I stood next to said to me encouragingly, 'Come on, Stephen - you're not singing. Have a go!' 'Believe me, Paul, you don't want me to,' I said. Besides, I was having a much better time listening to him. 'No. Go on!' So I joined in the chorus. 'You're right,' Paul McCartney conceded. 'You can't sing.

  Stephen Fry

  Believe, Years, Funeral

  Stephen Fry (2012). “The Fry Chronicles: An Autobiography”, p.220, The Overlook Press

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• in the synagogue of my heart... I myself jail and the jailed, I go wounded, bite-marked

  Helene Cixous

  Heart, Jail, Wounded

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• I leave it to the faithful to burn each other's churches and mosques and synagogues, which they can be always relied upon to do

  Christopher Hitchens

  Faithful, Church, Mosques

  Christopher Hitchens (2011). “God is Not Great”, p.14, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• If synagogues are attacked, this would give Jewish extremists an excuse to attack mosques.

  Mohammed Dahlan

  Giving, Mosques, Excuse

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• In the past, children learned their values at home, reinforced by organizations such as the Boy Scouts and, of course, their church or synagogue, but in all too many families that is no longer the case.

  Paul Weyrich

  Children, Home, Boys

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• When "I" and "You" are absent, I've no idea if this is a mosque, synagogue, church or temple

  Mahmud Shabistari

  Spiritual, Ideas, Church

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• Whenever we encounter the Infinite in man, however imperfectly understood, we treat it with respect. Whether in the synagogue, the mosque, the pagoda, or the wigwam, there is a hideous aspect which we execrate and a sublime aspect which we venerate. So great a subject for spiritual contemplation, such measureless dreaming - the echo of God on the human wall!

  Victor Hugo

  Dream, Spiritual, Wall

  Victor Hugo (1980). “Les misérables”, Viking Pr

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• I'm now a bit anti-Jewish since my last visit to the synagogue, but my atheism does not necessarily reject religion.

  Jack Steinberger

  Atheism, Doe, Lasts

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• The Hebrew language will go from the synagogue to the house of study, and from the house of study to the school, and from the school it will come into the home and... become a living language

  Eliezer Ben-Yehuda

  Home, School, House

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• I believe in Christianity, Judaism and Islamism, but I stay away from churches, synagogues and mosques.

  Ted Lange

  Believe, Church, Mosques

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• In my neighborhood, everyone had an opinion on the local cantor. You didn't go to a synagogue to listen to the rabbi's sermon. You went to listen to the cantor. It was like a concert.

  Alan Dershowitz

  Opinion, Concerts, Neighborhood

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• The religious environmental movement is potentially key to dealing with the greatest problem humans have ever faced, and it has never been captured with more breadth and force than in RENEWAL. I hope this movie is screened in church basements and synagogue social halls across the country, and that it moves many more people of faith off the fence and into action.

  Bill McKibben

  Country, Religious, Moving

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• Americans practice different faiths in churches, synagogues, mosques and temples. And many good people practice no faith at all.

  George W. Bush

  Practice, People, Religion

  "The Inaugural Redux" by Hendrik Hertzberg, www.newyorker.com. February 2, 2009.

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• But what will happen even if we do burn down the Jews synagogues and forbid them publicly to praise God, to pray, to teach, to utter God's name? They will still keep doing it in secret. If we know that they are doing this in secret, it is the same as if they were doing it publicly. for our knowledge of their secret doings and our toleration of them implies that they are not secret after all and thus our conscience is encumbered with it before God.

  Martin Luther

  Names, Secret, Praying

  Martin Luther “On the Jews & Their Lies”, Gottfried & Fritz

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• I'm twelve years old. I run into a synagogue. I ask the rabbi the meaning of life. He tells me the meaning of life but he tells it to me in Hebrew. I don't understand Hebrew. Then he wants to charge me $600 for Hebrew lessons.

  Woody Allen

  Running, Years, Want

  Woody Allen (1987). “Three Films of Woody Allen”, Vintage

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• I was Jewish, through and through, although in our house that didn't mean a whole lot. We never went to synagogue. I never had a Bar Mitzvah. We didn't keep kosher or observe the Sabbath. In fact, I'm not so sure I would have known what the Sabbath looked like if it passed me on the street, so how could I observe it?

  Gilbert Gottfried

  Mean, House, Mitzvah

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• I had already been a young singer. And once, as a profession, I was a young singer, what you would call a soprano in England, but I was an alto in singing Jewish music in bar mitzvahs and weddings and synagogues throughout New York City because, after Israel, New York is probably the biggest Jewish community in the world.

  Charlemagne Palestine

  New York, Israel, Cities

  Source: thequietus.com

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• What happens at the average church or synagogue or mosque is that I don't know many priests or ministers or rabbis who say to their congregation, 'go home and talk about the religion at the kitchen table with your kids...talk about God, talk about what this is all about.' They say in general, come back on the weekend, we'll talk to you about it.

  Norman Lear

  Home, Kids, Weekend

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• I'm calling my initiative take the other to lunch. If you are a Republican, you can take a Democrat to lunch or if you're a Democrat, think of it as taking a Republican to lunch because there is no shortage of the other right in your own neighborhood, maybe that person who worships at the mosque or the church or the synagogue down the street or someone from the other side of the abortion conflict - or maybe your brother-in-law who doesn't believe in global warming.

  Elizabeth Lesser

  Brother, Believe, Thinking

  "Should We Take "The Other" To Lunch?". "TED Radio Hour" with Guy Raz, wbaa.org. December 16, 2016.

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• I love the academy in terms of the life of the mind and the world of ideas. I also love the streets. I love the churches and mosques and synagogues. I love the trade union centers. I love the community centers. I speak regularly at prisons and so forth.

  Cornel West

  Ideas, Community, Mind

  "Cornel West Reconsiders President Obama". "Talk of the Nation" with Tony Cox, www.npr.org. August 2, 2010.

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