Synagogue Quotes - Page 3

• Even today I am willing to volunteer to do the dirty work for Israel, to have everyone hate us, to pull the rug from underneath the feet of the Diaspora Jews, so that they will be forced to run to us crying. Even if it means blowing up one or two synagogues here and there, I don’t care.

  Ariel Sharon

  Running, Hate, Dirty

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• My grandfather was a Russian-Jewish immigrant who lived in Northern Ireland and apparently when he sang in the synagogue he made everyone cry.

  Jessie Ware

  Grandfather, Cry, Made

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• I follow no doctrine. I don't belong to a church or a temple or a synagogue or an ashram.

  Meryl Streep

  Church, Doctrine, Temples

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Every baby born
  unloved, unwanted, is a bill that will come
  due in twenty years with interest, an anger
  that must find a target, a pain that will
  beget pain. A decade downstream a child
  screams, a woman falls, a synagogue is torched,
  a firing squad is summoned, a button
  is pushed and the world burns.

  Marge Piercy

  Baby, Children, Pain

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• Certainly the affirmative pursuit of one's convictions about the ultimate mystery of the universe and man's relation to it is placed beyond the reach of law. Government may not interfere with organized or individual expressions of belief or disbelief. Propagation of belief - or even of disbelief - in the supernatural is protected, whether in church or chapel, mosque or synagogue, tabernacle or meeting-house.

  Felix Frankfurter

  Men, Expression, Law

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• 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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• It is very difficult to be a non-religious Jew outside Israel. The synagogue keeps Jews together in the Diaspora. In Israel, you are a Jew from morning to night. We don't even have to think about it, just as a Dutch citizen doesn't spend his whole day thinking about the fact that he is a Dutch citizen. It's a given.

  Tommy Lapid

  Religious, Morning, Night

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

  Mohammed Dahlan

  Giving, Mosques, Excuse

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• If you are wealthy enough, use part or all of your Social Security proceeds to invest in a favorite cause or two. Invest 10 percent or 100 percent of your monthly Social Security check in your favorite charity, foundation, think tank, church or synagogue, or other good cause.

  Mark Skousen

  Thinking, Two, Church

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• They [rulers] must act like a good physician who, when gangrene has set in proceeds without mercy to cut, saw, and burn flesh, veins, bone, and marrow. Such a procedure must also be followed in this instance. Burn down their synagogues, forbid all that I enumerated earlier, force them to work, and deal harshly with them, as Moses did... If this does not help we must drive them out like mad dogs.

  Martin Luther

  Dog, Cutting, Mad

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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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• It's quite common for a Sufi mystic to cry in ecstasy that he's neither a Jew, a Christian, nor a Muslim. He is at home equally in a synagogue, a mosque, a temple, or a church because when one's glimpsed the divine, one's left these man-made distinctions behind.

  Karen Armstrong

  Christian, Home, Men

  "Big Think Interview With Karen Armstrong". Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. November 16, 2009.

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• I know some people say that high fashion should not be worn at synagogue. I, on the other hand, think that it is of the utmost importance that the Goldbergs from down the street see you in the new Chanel Fall 2010 Yom Kippur line.

  Rachel Zoe

  Fashion, Fall, Thinking

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• I now attend non-orthodox synagogues, and study little during the secular week.

  Luke Ford

  Littles, Study, Week

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• I am not a Jew in the synagogue and a feminist in the world. I am a Jewish feminist and a feminist Jew in every moment of my life.

  Judith Plaskow

  Feminist, Religion, Feminism

  Judith Plaskow (1990). “Standing again at Sinai: Judaism from a feminist perspective”, Harpercollins

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• And some needs and hurts are so deep they will only respond to a mentor's touch or a pastor's prayer. Church and charity, synagogue and mosque, lend our communities their humanity, and they will have an honored place in our plans and laws.

  George W. Bush

  Hurt, Prayer, Humor

  First Inaugural Address, delivered 20 January 2001

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