Quote of the Week
“He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose.”—Jim Elliot
“He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose.”—Jim Elliot
“The countless generations of Jews murdered, martyred, and massacred for the sake of Jerusalem say to you, Comfort ye our people.”—Yitzhak Rabin, IDF chief of staff in 1967, later Prime Minister
“If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out it has no meaning.”—C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity
“Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.”—Thomas a Kempis
“Who has made us Jews different from all other people? Who has allowed us to suffer so terribly up until now? It is G-d who has made us as we are, but it will be God, too, who will raise us up again. Who knows it might even be our religion from which the world…
“The best and only safe road to honor, glory, and true dignity is justice.” –George Washington (1779)
“All that is necessary for evil to prevail is for good people to do nothing.”– Edmund Burke
“Russia invades. Nigeria enslaves. China oppresses. Pakistan rapes. Iraq slaughters. North Korea starves. Iran nuclearizes. Syria massacres. Venezuela plunders. Afghanistan tortures. Sudan annihilates. ISIS beheads and Israel is the pariah state, put under the microscope by the morally noxious.”—Rabbi Shalom Lewis, Congregation Etz Chayim
“I will place no value on anything I have or may possess except in relation to the kingdom of Christ.” —David Livingstone, Explorer and Medical Missionary in the 19th century
“History teaches us that he who beats his sword into plowshares usually ends up plowing for those who kept their swords.”—Charles Pellegrino