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“No two cities have counted more with mankind than Athens and Jerusalem.”—Winston Churchill
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“My hands shook as I started to unwrap one of them. I read a few sentences. It was written in beautiful biblical Hebrew. The language was like that of the Psalms, but the text was unknown to me. I looked and looked, and I suddenly had the feeling that I was privileged by destiny to…
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“Today let us take our place at Jesus’ side and look upon His people with His eyes, full of love and mercy. Then our hearts would ache to see this chosen people of God wandering through the centuries, wretched, despised, shunned, ostracized, and afflicted with pain like the suffering Servant of God in Isaiah 53. …
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“We have never been the same since the day on which God overwhelmed us at Sinai.”-–Abraham Joshua Heschel.
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“If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.” –C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity
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“The day is short, the task is abundant, the laborers are lazy, the wage is great and the Master of the house is insistent.”—Pirkei Avot 2:20 (Chapters of the Fathers)
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“If we bear all this suffering and if there are still Jews left, when it is over, then Jews, instead of being doomed, will be held up as an example.”― Anne Frank
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“Each one hopes that if he feeds the crocodile enough, the crocodile will eat him last….All of them hope that the storm will pass before their turn comes to be devoured.”–Winston Churchill
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“It is not the critic who counts. Not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, shoes face is marred by dust and sweat and blood.” —Teddy Roosevelt, 1910 speech
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“He who has not seen Jerusalem in her splendour has never seen a desirable city in his life. He who has not seen the Temple in its full construcion has never seen a glorious building in his life.”—Babylonian Talmud, Tractate of the Tabernacle