Hebrew Quotes - Page 9

• Live on the divine Eucharist, like the Hebrews did on the Manna. Your soul can be entirely dedicated to the divine Eucharist and very holy in the midst of your work and contacts with the world.

  Peter Julian Eymard

  Christian, Soul, World

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• Literature, the study of literature in English in the 19th century, did not belong to literary studies, which had to do with Greek, Latin, and Hebrew, but instead with elocution and public speaking. So when people read literature, it was to memorize and to recite it.

  Robert Hass

  Latin, People, Greek

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• After [Bill Shawn] was fired, I was going to the YMHA [Young Men's Hebrew Association] on the Upper East Side to do a talk on free speech.I went into a coffee shop to get a piece of pie and a coffee, and I was reading a paper and I hear a voice. And it was -it was not a voice I was familiar with, but I looked across the table and I saw Lilian Ross.And sitting next to her was William Shawn - no tie, needed a shave. His voice was kind of coarse and rather loud. He wasn't drunk, but I was just stunned.

  Nat Hentoff

  Reading, Coffee, Men

  Source: thedailyhatch.org

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• I was fascinated by the lack of a word for a parent who has lost a child. We have no word in English. I thought for sure there'd be a word in Irish but there is none. And then I looked in several other languages and could not find one, until I found the word Sh'khol in Hebrew. I'm still not sure why so many languages don't have a word for this sort of bereavement, this shadowing.

  Colum McCann

  Children, Parent, Bereavement

  Source: www.omnivoracious.com

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• We may not see the connection between the name Jesus and the phrase "save his people from their sins," but Joseph would have. He was familiar with the Hebrew language.

  Max Lucado

  Jesus, Names, People

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• The English name Jesus traces its origin to the Hebrew word Yeshua. Yeshua is a shortening of Yehoshuah, which means "Yahweh saves."

  Max Lucado

  Jesus, Mean, Names

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• Most of what the founders knew about the Hebraic republic, it must be emphasized, they learned from the Bible. These Americans were well aware that ideas like republicanism found expression in traditions apart from the Hebrew experience, and, indeed, they studied these traditions both ancient and modern.

  Daniel L Dreisbach

  Ideas, Expression, Republic

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• Because on that watch list, they would be like, yeah, your name - they told me like, yeah, your name matches the name of a terrorist or someone that they're watching. I was just like, what terrorist is running around with a Hebrew first name and a Muslim - Arabic last - I'm like, who's that guy?

  Mahershala Ali

  Running, Names, Guy

  Source: www.npr.org

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• It is always amusing to me and delightful of course that my books sell so well in America and other parts of the world. I can't imagine what people must think as they read my books in Poland. Or in Hebrew and Greek. People are reading all the stories which are about bits of Western Australia.

  Tim Winton

  Book, Reading, Thinking

  Source: www.compulsivereader.com

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• Regarding the children in Israel who made the first known world change in history using the Bible Code, they left a statement which they wrote on a rock, in Hebrew: "If it is not simple, it simply will not be," meaning that they have decided that if there is not an innocence, a simplicity in the actions of the world, they are simply going to erase it.

  Drunvalo Melchizedek

  Children, Simple, Rocks

  Source: lovinglifeonearth.wordpress.com

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• I've never seen a movie in Hebrew about Jesus. I have three kids, I don't have enough time to watch TV.

  Aviv Alush

  Jesus, Kids, Enough

  Source: www.patheos.com

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• Let all your preaching be in the most simple and plainest manner; look not to the prince, but to the plain, simple, gross, unlearned people, of which cloth the prince also himself is made. If I, in my preaching, should have regard to Philip Melancthon and other learned doctors, then should I do but little good. I preach in the simplest manner to the unskillful, and that giveth content to all. Hebrew, Greek and Latin I spare until we learned ones come together.

  Martin Luther

  Latin, Simple, Doctors

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• Sublimity is Hebrew by birth.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Birth, Sublimity

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1871). “The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge with an Introductory Essay Upon His Philosophical and Theological Opinions”, p.406

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• It is a fact that the classics of Yiddish literature are also the classics of the modern Hebrew literature.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Literature, Facts, Modern

  Isaac Bashevis Singer, Joseph C. Landis (1986). “Aspects of I.B. Singer”

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• The Hebrews have a saying that God is more delighted in adverbs than in nouns; it is not so much the matter that is done, but the matter how it is done, that God minds. Not how much, but how well! It is the well-doing that meets with a well-done. Let us therefore serve God, not nominally or verbally, but adverbially.

  Ralph Venning

  Mind, Done, Nouns

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• The Hebrew language... is the only glue which holds together our scattered bones. It also holds together the rings in the chain of time.... It binds us to those who built pyramids, to those who shed their blood on the ramparts of Jerusalem, and to those who, at the burning stakes, cried Shema Yisrael!

  I. L. Peretz

  Pyramids, Blood, Together

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• In case any are puzzled by the different translations from which I draw strength and help and delight, it is like this: In studying any object with the microscope we use different lenses and turn the mirror in various ways; each change brings out some new wonder and beauty. So it is for those who are not Greek or Hebrew scholars, and who use the work of scholars to open the meaning of the exhaustible Word-the Bible is richer than any single version can fully show.

  Amy Carmichael

  Mirrors, Greek, Different

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• Hebrew was frozen, like frozen peas, fresh out of the Bible.

  Etgar Keret

  Frozen, Peas

  "Etgar Keret: We Can Try to Be Human". Interview with Meakin Armstrong, www.guernicamag.com. August 17, 2015.

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• I think that, in Hebrew, it's like the language creates a more unique and specific universe even before the story.

  Etgar Keret

  Unique, Thinking, Stories

  "Etgar Keret: We Can Try to Be Human". Interview with Meakin Armstrong, www.guernicamag.com. August 17, 2015.

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• Some providences, like Hebrew letters, must be read backwards.

  John Flavel

  Letters, Providence, Backwards

  John Flavel (1822). “Navigation Spiritualized, Or, A New Compass for Seamen: Consisting of Thirty-two Points ...”, p.121

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• I realized that it's all really one, that John Lennon was correct. We utilize the music to bring down the walls of Berlin, to bring up the force of compassion and forgiveness and kindness between Palestines, Hebrews. Bring down the walls here in San Diego, Tijuana, Cuba.

  Carlos Santana

  Wall, Kindness, Compassion

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• If only one country, for whatever reason, tolerates a Jewish family in it, that family will become the germ center for fresh sedition. If one little Jewish boy survives without any Jewish education, with no synagogue and no Hebrew school, it [Judaism] is in his soul. Even if there had never been a synagogue or a Jewish school or an Old Testament, the Jewish spirit would still exist and exert its influence. It has been there from the beginning and there is no Jew, not a single one, who does not personify it.

  Adolf Hitler

  Country, School, Boys

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• Birth Control is not contraception indiscriminately and thoughtlessly practiced. It means the release and cultivation of the better racial elements in our society, and the gradual suppression, elimination and eventual extirpation of defective stocks — those human weeds which threaten the blooming of the finest flowers of American civilization.

  Margaret Sanger

  Weed, Latin, Flower

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• I believe in Islam. I am a Muslim and there is nothing wrong with being a Muslim, nothing wrong with the religion of Islam. It just teaches us to believe in Allah as the God. Those of you who are Christian probably believe in the same God, because I think you believe in the God Who created the universe. That's the One we believe in, the One Who created universe - the only difference being you call Him God and we call Him Allah. The Jews call Him Jehovah. If you could understand Hebrew, you would probably call Him Jehovah too. If you could understand Arabic, you would probably call Him Allah.

  Malcolm X

  Christian, Believe, Thinking

  Malcolm X (1992). “February 1965: the final speeches”, Pathfinder Pr

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• The Providence of God is like Hebrew words-it can be read only backwards.

  John Flavel

  Providence, Backwards

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