Jerusalem Quotes - Page 4

• In Tel Aviv the weekends last 48 hours. In Jerusalem they last 6 months.

  Ze'ev Chafets

  Weekend, Lasts, Months

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• In my office in Jerusalem, there's an ancient seal. It's a signet ring of a Jewish official from the time of the Bible. The seal was found right next to the Western Wall, and it dates back 2,700 years, to the time of King Hezekiah. Now, there's a name of the Jewish official inscribed on the ring in Hebrew. His name was Netanyahu.

  Benjamin Netanyahu

  Kings, Wall, Years

  Benjamin Netanyahu's Remarks to the U.N. General Assembly, www.mfa.gov.il. September 23, 2011.

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• The picture. A great plain, comprising the entire Jerusalem district, where is the supreme Commander-in-Chief of the forces of good, Christ our Lord: another plain near Babylon, where Lucifer is, at the head of the enemy.

  Ignatius of Loyola

  Enemy, Christ, Lord

  Saint Ignatius of Loyola (2012). “The Spiritual Exercises of Saint Ignatius of Loyola”, p.52, Courier Corporation

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• O what their joy and their glory must be, Those endless sabbaths the blessed ones see! crowns for the valiant, for weary ones rest: God shall be all, and in all ever blest. Truly Jerusalem name we that shore, vision of peace that brings hope evermore; wish and fulfillment shall severed be ne'er, nor the thing prayed for come short of the prayer.

  Peter Abelard

  Peace, Prayer, Blessed

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• I cannot assume emotions I do not feel, and must describe Jerusalem as I found it. Since being here, I have read the accounts of several travellers, and in many cases the devotional rhapsodies - the ecstacies of awe and reverence - in which they indulge, strike me as forced and affected.

  Bayard Taylor

  Emotion, Assuming, Found

  Bayard Taylor (1862). “Prose Writings of Bayard Taylor ...”, p.85

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• We promise you that we will not cede a single part of Palestine, we will not cede Jerusalem, we will continue to fight and we will not lay down our arms.

  Ismail Haniyeh

  Fighting, Promise, Arms

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• Martyrs, martyrs, martyrs,... we want a million martyrs to march on Jerusalem.

  Yasser Arafat

  Islamic, Want, March

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• In order to find Jesus, every one of us needs direction. God gives it. The story of the wise men shows us how. The star sign was enough to lead the magi to Jerusalem. But it took Scripture to lead them to Jesus.

  Max Lucado

  Wise, Jesus, Stars

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• I am for lasting peace... United, I believe, we can win the battle for peace. But it must be a different peace, one with full recognition of the rights of the Jews in their one and only land: peace with security for generations and peace with a united Jerusalem as the eternal, undivided capital of the Jewish people in the state of Israel forever.

  Ariel Sharon

  Believe, Winning, Rights

  "I am for lasting peace". Ariel Sharon at New York Post Forum, November 13, 2000.

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• Jews have always yearned for Jerusalem, from which they'd been exiled many times, but they also yearned for each and every one of the countries where they had been persecuted and where their ancestors once lived and are still buried.

  Phyllis Chesler

  Country, Buried, Ancestor

  Phyllis Chesler (2013). “An American Bride in Kabul: A Memoir”, p.145, Macmillan

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• It is more than twenty years since we left the city. This is a serious chunk of time, longer than the years we spent living there. Yet we still think of Jerusalem as our home. Not home in the sense of the place that you conduct your daily life or constantly return to. In fact, Jerusalem is our home almost against our wills. It is our home because it defines us, whether we like it or not.

  Yotam Ottolenghi

  Home, Thinking, Years

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• Look at the Intifadah in Jerusalem. One cannot understand that phenomenon, a phenomenon where people, often very young boys, are successfully harassing one of the best armies in the world, without appreciating their freedom to move!

  Paul Virilio

  Moving, Army, Boys

  Source: ctheory.net

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• René of Anjou [(1409-80)] painted a picture of his mistress's corpse as he found it eaten by worms on having it [her tomb] openedon his return from a pilgrimage to Jerusalem. This [is] another instance of the strange mixture of religion and gallantry in those ages.

  Horace Walpole

  Religion, Mistress, Age

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• In the din and tumult of the age, the still small voice of Jerusalem remains our only music.

  Israel Zangwill

  Voice, Age, Stills

  Isidore Singer, Israel Zangwill (1924). “A Religion of Truth, Justice and Peace: A Challenge to Church and Synagogue to Lead in the Realization of the Social and Peace Gospel of the Hebrew Prophets”

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• I think a lot it was the theology, that the road to Jerusalem runs through Baghdad, that somehow if we broke apart the rejectionist states, like Iraq, then the whole Middle East would reconfigure itself into a more favorable environment for democracy and Israel and us.

  Chris Matthews

  Running, Thinking, Israel

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• Heaven is the most beautiful thing God has ever made, outside of women, God bless them!-And in fact He even uses you women to symbolise the City and He calls that City His Bride, the New Heaven, the New Jerusalem! How about that? He couldn't think of anything more beautiful to symbolise that City than you, you beautiful girls, so He called it His Bride! Why? Because His Bride's going to live there!

  David Berg

  Beautiful, Girl, Thinking

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• Long before the word Zionism was uttered for the first time, old religious Jews came from all over the world to die in Jerusalem. It is the finest place to die in - it has always been acknowledged. It has a joie de mourir quite its own.

  George Mikes

  Funny, Religious, Humorous

  George Mikes (1969). “The Prophet Motive: Israel Today and Tomorrow”

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• Christ's enemies are but breaking their own heads in pieces, upon the Rock laid in Zion; and the stone is not removed out of its place. Faith hath cause to take courage from our very afflictions; the devil is but a whetstone to sharpen the faith and patience of the saints. I know that he but heweth and polisheth stones, all this time, for the new Jerusalem.

  Samuel Rutherford

  Rocks, Zion, Enemy

  Samuel Rutherford (1863). “Letters of Samuel Rutherford: With a Sketch of His Life”, p.191

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• We considered ourselves Jordanian until the Jews returned to Jerusalem. Then all of the sudden we were Palestinians – they removed the star from the Jordanian flag and all at once we had a Palestinian flag.

  Walid Shoebat

  Stars, Flags, Palestinian

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• The Palestinian state is within our grasp. Soon the Palestinian flag will fly on the walls, the minarets and the cathedrals of Jerusalem.

  Yasser Arafat

  Wall, Flags, States

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• Jerusalem is the capital of the Palestinian state.

  Yasser Arafat

  States, Palestinian

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• In order to obtain the goal of returning to Palestine, all of us sometimes have to grit our teeth. But it is forbidden that this harm the continued struggle against the Zionist enemy. Cooperation and understanding between the P.L.O. and the rejectionist organizations is what will lead to the speedy retreat of Israel from the occupied territories in the first stage, until the establishment of a Palestinian state with its capital in Jerusalem. Only a state like that can then continue the struggle to remove the enemy from all Palestinian lands.

  Yasser Arafat

  Struggle, Israel, Order

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• Israel must withdraw from Jerusalem so that it becomes the capital of a state of Palestine.

  Yasser Arafat

  Israel, States, Palestine

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• When Israel says that it will recognise Palestinian rights and will withdraw from the West Bank and East Jerusalem and grant the right of return, stop settlements and recognise the rights of the Palestinians to self-determination - only then will Hamas be ready to take a serious step.

  Khaled Mashal

  Determination, Rights, Israel

  Interview with Jeremy Bowen, news.bbc.co.uk. February 8, 2006.

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• Why should these Palestinians, who have lived in Jerusalem for hundreds of years, be evicted from their homes so that Jews from Brooklyn can live in them?

  Norman Finkelstein

  Home, Years, Brooklyn

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