Quote of the week
“It isn’t enough to believe in something; you have to have the stamina to meet obstacles and overcome them, to struggle.” -Golda Meir, 1975
“It isn’t enough to believe in something; you have to have the stamina to meet obstacles and overcome them, to struggle.” -Golda Meir, 1975
“Without faith, there’s no enthusiasm, and without enthusiasm there is no transcendence. The soul withers and one’s vision narrows. Scholarship finds itself mired in trivia and the great goal is forgotten.” Menahem Zulay, Scholar of Jewish poetry, 1938
“One’s prayer should be made new each day. As new water flows from the well each hour, so Israel renews its song.” Palestinian Talmud
Why don’t men play the man? Why don’t they offer their strength to a world desperately in need of it? — John Eldredge from Wild at Heart
“The best and only safe road to honor, glory, and true dignity is justice.” –George Washington (1779)
“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…
“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
“Beloved is man for he was created in God’s image. Still greater was the love shown him in that it was made known to him that he was created in God’s image.”—-Rabbi Akiva
“Israel’s founding ethos, anchored in its declaration of independence, guarantees freedom of religion and conscience while safeguarding the holy places of all religions. Such is the case with every church, monastery and holy site in the country, many of which have been rebuilt and refurbished in recent years by the state of Israel.”—Former Congressman Senator…
“Man, once surrendering his reason, has no remaining guard against absurdities the most monstrous, and like a ship without a rudder, is the sport of every wind. With such person, gullibility, which they call faith, takes the helm from the hand of reason and the mind becomes a wreck.” –Thomas Jefferson, 1822