“The highest science, the loftiest speculation, the mightiest philosophy, which can ever engage the attention of a child of God, is the name, the nature, the person, the work, the doings, and the existence of the great God whom he calls his Father.” —Charles Spurgeon, 1855
“Accomplishments such as I have seen in Palestine can be attained only when human spirit is fired by an ideal which reaches beyond the individual to the group and on into the future. Since the destruction of the Temple nearly two thousand years ago, the longing for Palestine (Israel) has been ever present with the…
“Jews prefer being prisoners in Jerusalem to enjoying the freedom they could acquire elsewhere…The love of the Jews for their Holy Land which they lost…is unbelievable.”—Jesuit Father Michael Naud on his pilgrimage to the Holy Land, 1674
“You are not required to complete the task, you are not free to withdraw from it…but be aware that the reward of the righteous will be given in the World to Come.”—From the Talmud, Pirkea Avot 2:21
“Restoring the Jews to their homeland is a noble dream shared by many Americans.”—Abraham Lincoln, 1863
Let us remember that the Christmas heart is a giving heart, a wide open heart that thinks of others first. The birth of the baby Jesus stands as the most significant event in all history, because it has meant the pouring into a sick world of the healing medicine of love which has transformed all…
“I know nothing which can so comfort the soul; so calm the swelling billows of sorrow and grief; so speak peace to the winds of trial, as a devout musing upon the subject of the Godhead.”-–Charles Spurgeon, 1855
“You weren’t an accident. You weren’t mass produced. You aren’t an assembly-line product. You were deliberately planned, specifically gifted, and lovingly positioned on the earth by the Master Craftsman.”—Max Lucado, The Christmas Candle
The life of every man who fights in a just cause is a paradox. He makes war so that there should be peace. He sheds blood so that there should be no more bloodshed. — Menachem Begin, The Revolt, 1949
“We have gone forth from our shores repeatedly over the last hundred years and we’ve done this as recently as the last year in Afghanistan and put wonderful young men and women at risk, many of whom have lost their lives, and we have asked for nothing except enough ground to bury them in, and…