Best Tanakh Quotes

#1. Never does the Tanakh suggest that our being a people means that only we have a right to an ancestral homeland and that other people don't.

Daniel Gordis

#2. . . . she had always the power of suggesting things much lovelier than herself, as the perfume of a single flower may call up the whole sweetness of spring.

Willa Cather

#3. CODE:
Cursed is the ground for thy sake; in toil shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life.
Tanakh (JPS, Genesis 3:17)
DECODED:
Blessed is He that discerneth secrets.
Talmud (Berakoth 58a)

H.W. Charles

#4. There's nothing I won't attempt.

Tracey Ullman

#5. If someone asks you why you're oppressing a world and you reply with a lot of poetic crap, no. I guess there can't be a meeting of minds.

Roger Zelazny

#6. The Tanakh says John Lennon is wrong.

Daniel Gordis

#7. The Tanakh teaches that, "The diligent will rule, while the lazy will be put to forced labor". Most Jews work for themselves and hire employees instead of being employees.

H.W. Charles

#8. Religious Jews believe that all things come from God, as God owns everything. The Tanakh says, "The Lord makes some poor and others rich; he brings some down and lifts others up" (NLT, 1 Samuel 2:7). "The blessing of the LORD brings wealth, and he adds no trouble to it" (NIV, Proverbs 10:22).

H.W. Charles

#9. We are living at the beginning of the humanization of business.

Gary Vaynerchuk

#10. In general, it should be noted, biblical law is evolutionary, not revolutionary...

Joseph Telushkin

#11. All tales, then, are at some level a journey into the woods to find the missing part of us, to retrieve it and make ourselves whole. Storytelling is as simple - and complex - as that. That's the pattern. That's how we tell stories.

John Yorke

#12. It takes a lot of doing to die.

Betty Smith

#13. Wealth is a planned result that requires productive work and dedication. The Tanakh says, "The plans of the diligent lead only to abundance; but all who rush in arrive only at want" (CJB, Proverbs 21:5).

H.W. Charles