Hebrew Scriptures Quotes

#1. The Hebrew scriptures say it's okay to enslave anybody except your fellow Jews. It says you should enslave only your neighbors. I say to people that means Mexicans and Canadians are a bit at risk if we want to be literal about the Bible.

John Shelby Spong

#2. Both gospels employ the term "Son of God" exactly as it is used throughout the Hebrew Scriptures: as a royal title, not a description.

Reza Aslan

#3. In Proverbs, a wisdom book of the Hebrew Scriptures, a cat would find a few "wisdom" passages as noxious as the Garden of Eden passages. Again the symbology of fruit being eaten

Leviak B. Kelly

#4. Nowhere in the Hebrew Scriptures does it say that God is omnipotent.

Tony Campolo

#5. The attempt is to kill the false "I", so that the real "I", the Lord, will reign. "I the Lord thy God am a jealous God. Thou shalt have no other gods before me," say the Hebrew scriptures.

Swami Vivekananda

#6. What I am
is tired of jam.

Russell Hoban

#7. I work very fast and steadily, and I don't hardly ever notice that I'm working. It feels like just breathing or walking when I do films.

Werner Herzog

#8. I'm so close to Heaven, this Hell cannot be mine.

Melissa Etheridge

#9. I'm not mad, Mason. I am crushed. Acting mad makes it easier to deal with than letting it rip me apart.

Cheryl McIntyre

#10. Lamentations' testimony is bitter, raw, and largely unhealed. Its poems use 'wounded words' to illumine pain and resist God's acts in the world.

Kathleen M. O'Connor

#11. Jews are just like everyone else, only more so.

Lionel Blue

#12. I hardly knew what to do. I wanted, of course, to rush down to Washington Square and grip the poor blighter silently by the hand; and then, thinking it over, I hadn't the nerve. Absent treatment seemed the touch. I gave it him in waves.

P.G. Wodehouse

#13. 'SCTV' was the concept of a group ensemble doing satirical things. 'Saturday Night Live's sketches were broader than ours, more universal.

Joe Flaherty

#14. Judaism has always been a strong interest of mine. My two sons speak Hebrew and are familiar with the scriptures and with rabbinic literature. This is the way we live.

Herman Wouk

#15. Listen to the time as it can heal everything.

Sorin Cerin