Top 100 Judaism's Quotes
#1. Palestine, as Icelanders see it, includes the Western Wall of the Second Temple, Judaism's holiest site.
Elliott Abrams
#2. OUR WORLD IS SO DANGEROUS because there are so many people willing to die and kill in order to defend GOD.
In Judaism is our God's duty to protect us
Celso Cukierkorn
#3. I never paid much attention to being Jewish when I was a kid. In fact, I'd say my religion was more surfing than Judaism - that's what I spent most of my time doing.
Julian Schnabel
#4. See, you don't wanna be a Jew. Too much work--there's a lot of holidays but it's even more work. It's sanctioned oppression, it's God's tyranny.
Shawn Stewart Ruff
#5. It's a rental, I said, realizing when I said it that our house was the only rental on the block. Maybe something unseemly had happened there: adultery, Judaism, modern dance.
Emma Straub
#6. While I love Mohammed and Jesus Christ'I reject all men's religions, not just Islam, but Christianity, Judaism and whatever else the men use for a whip.
Kola Boof
#7. I don't care if you care, I retorted. But in my religion, we're taught to admit our mistakes and to apologize for them ... Oh, and there's one other thing I'm sorry about, I added. I should've spit in your eye and called you a szhlob weeks ago.
Amy Fellner Dominy
#8. It seems to me that Islam and Christianity and Judaism all have the same god, and he's telling them all different things.
Billy Connolly
#9. That's what being Jewish is: summoning the means to question who you are and how you have behaved. Have you remained alight in the darkness of cruel wishes,..? Have you forgiven? Have you lived up to the standards of your one and only heart?
Emily Franklin
#10. Belief in heaven and hell is a big deal in Judaism , Christianity , and Islam , and some forms of doctrinaire Buddhism . For the rest of us it's simply meaningless. We don't live in order to die, we live in order to live.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#11. On the other side, Church spokesmen could scarcely become enthusiastic about Planck's deism, which omitted all reference to established religions and had no more doctrinal content than Einstein's Judaism.
J.L. Heilbron
#12. OK, well maybe I have to get back to Judaism. In the sense that if I look at me and my forebears forever stretching back to I don't know, whenever there's no sense of place and therefore no sense of nationality.
Janet Suzman
#13. There's this part of Judaism that I like. Tikun Alum. It said that the world is broken into pieces and everyone has to find it.
Lorene Scafaria
#14. I do what I love, thank God. I get to make music and get inspiration through Judaism. I can see why people might be surprised, because it's not been done before. It's certainly not typical. People are always trying to wrap head their around it. But it's probably simpler than everyone thinks.
Matisyahu
#15. Having people be afraid of you comes with responsibility.
Daniel Gordis
#16. As a journalist, I've always treaded carefully about being Jewish and caring a lot about Israel and having that not become too big of an issue that could affect my journalism. But I also don't think it's essential to my Judaism, as I think it might be for some other people.
David Gregory
#17. I'd say, probably, intellectually I've drawn as much from Judaism as any other faith.
Barack Obama
#18. One of the interesting things is is that Judaism was very attractive to the Roman aristocracy.
Susan Jacoby
#19. The god of Judaism is the devil. The Jew will not be recognized by God as one of His chosen people until he abandons his demonic religion and returns to the faith of his fathers
the faith which embraces Jesus Christ and His Gospel.
David Chilton
#20. I love religions and find them fascinating, and I find Judaism very beautiful. It's enriched my life enormously.
Isla Fisher
#21. Abraham is the shared ancestor of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. He stands at the heart of these three faiths. And yet you know almost nothing about him.
Bruce Feiler
#22. To the dismay of anti-Semites, the Jews were never a foreign "ethnos" of invaders from afar but rather an autochthonous population whose ancestors, for the most part, converted to Judaism before the arrival of Christianity or Islam.17
Shlomo Sand
#23. A broken heart is a whole heart. A leaning ladder is a straight ladder.
Simcha Raz
#24. Giordano Bruno was to take the bolder course of maintaining that the magical Egyptian religion of the world was not only the most ancient but also the only true religion, which both Judaism and Christianity had obscured and corrupted.
Frances A. Yates
#25. If you take away the Jewish contribution to Christianity, there would be no Christianity. Judaism does not need Christianity to explain its existence; Christianity, however, cannot explain its existence without Judaism.
John Hagee
#26. Did you know that Judaism is based on paradigm shifts, Henry? First came Abraham, then came Moses. Then came the prophets, then came the rabbis. Pretty amazing stuff. Each iteration, reaching for the godhead. What comes next, Henry? What comes next?
Michael Davidow
#27. I have found my way, step by step, proceeding from touch points that have emerged, some through conscious choice and some through dream state discovery.
Leonard Nimoy
#28. American political discourse had framed the Jewish problem as an immigration problem. Germany's persecution of Jews raised the specter of a vast influx of Jewish refugees at a time when America was reeling from the Depression.
Erik Larson
#29. I didn't want any surprises; I churlishly thought if I revealed my Judaism at McDonald's, I would somehow be protected by the friendly American forces of crispy chicken sandwiches and supersized French fries.
Jared Cohen
#30. Judaism says, "The Messiah is going to come, and that's the end of history"; Christianity says, "The Messiah is going to come back, and that's the end of history"; Islam says, "The Messiah came; history is irrelevant." One
Stewart Brand
#31. I think a lot of Jews make Israel the centerpiece of their Judaism. It becomes the centerpiece of their Jewish existence and of their faith. I have always felt that that's not for me.
David Gregory
#32. In certain strains of Judaism, there's a profound passion for the ineffable. Contemplation of God is meant to be forever elusive, because, you know, our tiny minds can't possibly comprehend Him. If we find ourselves comprehending Him, then we can be sure we're off track.
Ben Marcus
#33. It's not a pretty world, Papa.'
'I've noticed,' my father said softly.
Chaim Potok
#35. I studied Judaism a lot. I studied religion in general, and I have never imposed my Judaism on my kids. They are what they want to be. I think ... you must care for others. That's the correct religion, I think.
Kirk Douglas
#36. I think it's a wonderful fact about Judaism - at least about the approach to Judaism I most relate to: There are no universal answers. We don't have it all figured out. God is unknowable.
Darin Strauss
#37. America's freedom of religion, and freedom from religion, offers every wisdom tradition an opportunity to address our soul-deep needs: Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, secular humanism, agnosticism and atheism among others.
Parker Palmer
#38. It's not how much or how little you have that makes you great or small, but how much or how little you are with what you have.
Samson Raphael Hirsch
#39. Without Nebuchadnezzar's conquest and deportation, Judaism as we know it, and therefore Christianity and Islam in their turn, could never have come to be.
Paul Kriwaczek
#40. I think there ought to be a strict separation or wall built between our religious faith and our practice of political authority in office. I don't think the President of the United States should extoll Christianity if he happens to be a Christian at the expense of Judaism, Islam or other faiths.
Jimmy Carter
#41. This is entertainment, not Judaism, I think the general public will celebrate this, but the religious public will be indifferent. (on Madonna's visit to Israel)
Uri Orbach
#42. I find its attention to living this life rather than the next one exhilarating because I think even independently of Judaism that that's the right way to go about life.
Janet Suzman
#43. Our responsibility is to love God and to love our neighbour which is what Jesus taught and it's also what Judaism taught - and that would make sense because Jesus was Jewish.
Amy-Jill Levine
#44. So," Art [Green] said, "it's hard to do Judaism and travel light. Judaism is not mostly about letting go, but mostly about attachment to God, through attachment to tradition, attachment to forms.
Rodger Kamenetz
#45. There's never really been a tradition of making films about Jewish themes or using Judaism as a constant.
James Gray
#46. Every one of the "great" belief systems of the world, Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Buddhism and Confucianism, insists on women's inferiority as an article of faith. Individual
Rosalind Miles
#47. Islam, Christianity and Judaism all define themselves through disgust of women's bodies.
Polly Toynbee
#48. It's wrong to treat Muslims as if they will never find their John Stuart Mill. Christianity and Judaism show people can be very dogmatic and then open up.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
#49. Again, I was influenced by my father, who was very much an atheist and took pride in combating the traditional or orthodox forms of Judaism, which his parents and which my mother's parents were very steeped in.
Robert Jay Lifton
#50. The history of Israel and Judaism is the unfolding of the meaning of this story. It's retelling is never finished and will not be until the Kingdom.
Timothy Radcliffe
#51. Reformed rabbis are generally political in nature. It's almost like Islam, radicalized Islam in a way, to where it is just radicalized Islam is less about religion than it is about politics. When you look at the Reform Judaism, it is more about politics.
Glenn Beck
#52. You don't persecute an entire people unless you fear the truth that they are carrying!
Celso Cukierkorn
#53. Commerce is a noble profession, and Jews should get over any self-hatred they might harbor from contemplating the capitalist spirit of diaspora Judaism.
Steven Pinker
#54. The careful reader of the New Testament will find three Christs described: - One who wished to preserve Judaism - one who wished to reform it, and one who built a system of his own
Robert Green Ingersoll
#55. Despite two millennia of Christian apologetics, the fact is that belief in a dying and rising messiah simply did not exist in Judaism.
Reza Aslan
#57. Basically, if you move away from materialistic optimism but without embracing Judaism or Christianity, you are quite likely to end up with some kind of Gnosticism.
N. T. Wright
#58. Herod was convert,after all. His mother was Arab. His people, the Idumeans, had come to Judaism only a generation or two earlier.
Reza Aslan
#59. Tom Friedman says China is so awesome they make kosher pigs.
Jonah Goldberg
#60. Stanley Hauerwas is correct that Judaism insists on the bearing of children because it is essential to Jewish continuity. But to end the matter there is to miss an essential point: if we are to learn to love others, Judaism says, we must begin by loving those who are closest to us.
Meir Soloveichik
#61. One of the best lessons we can learn is humility. You should define your material possessions; they shouldn't define you. #
Celso Cukierkorn
#63. [Judaism is] ever ... mighty in wickedness ... when it cursed Moses; when it hated God; when it vowed its sons to demons; when it killed the prophets, and finally when it betrayed to the Praetor and crucified our God Himself and Lord ... And so glorying through all its existence in iniquity.
Hilary Of Poitiers
#64. The bible is not a religious experience for me. This book bundles together the entire culture of Judaism: our language, our history, our geography. God is merely a byproduct of the bible.
Tommy Lapid
#65. I believe in Christianity, Judaism and Islamism, but I stay away from churches, synagogues and mosques.
Ted Lange
#66. Who is a Jew? A person whose integrity decays when unmoved by the knowledge of wrong done to other people.
Abraham Joshua Heschel
#67. The observant Jew has his own sense of values. Torah Judaism is his blueprint for this life, his target for existence.
Meir Kahane
#68. From the outset, the Christian was the theorizing Jew, the Jew is therefore the practical Christian, and the practical Christian has become a Jew again.
Karl Marx
#69. In the Catskills, nostalgia runs backwards. The upwardly mobile Jewish masses of the 1950s and 1960s have been replaced by the Jews of 19th century Poland.
Kevin Haworth
#70. Educator Norman Lamm said, In Judaism, there are 613 biblical commandments, and the Talmud says that the chief commandment of all is study.
H.W. Charles
#71. A true god surely cannot have been born of a girl, nor died on the gibbet, nor be eaten in a piece of dough ... [or inspired] books, filled with contradictions, madness, and horror.
Voltaire
#72. Until the Crusades Islam was indistinguishable from Judaism and ... only then did it receive its independent character, while Muhammad and the first Caliphs are mythical figures.
Nikolai Alexandrovich Morozov
#73. These are the themes in life which are consistent in Judaism, Islam, Hinduism - of being grounded in who you are and being engaged in an unjust world.
Cory Booker
#74. Our society is the product of several great religious and philosophical traditions. The ideas of the Greeks and Romans, Christianity, Judaism, humanism and the Enlightenment have made us who we are.
Jan Peter Balkenende
#75. I really believe in the way the energy can consolidate in certain geographical spots. You can find it in a lot of different places, beautiful natural spots, or if you look at Islam or Judaism or Christianity, these ideas of holy places.
Conor Oberst
#76. Very well then; emancipation from usury and money, that is, from practical, real Judaism, would constitute the emancipation of our time.
Karl Marx
#77. It should go without saying that these rival belief systems [Judaism, Islam, Christianity] are all equally uncontaminated by evidence.
Sam Harris
#78. Come on people! Somebody disagree with me! How can we learn anything if no one will disagree?" Rabbi Stern
Athol Dickson
#79. The foundation of religion is not the affirmation that God is, but that God is concerned with man and the world; that, having created the world, he has not abandoned it, leaving it to its own devices; that he cares for his creation.
Eliezer Berkovits
#80. My position would be to see Jesus and Paul as people used by God to bring the monotheism and the moral message of Judaism to the world, and to teach the world that the God discovered and worshiped by the Jews was the only true God.
Harold S. Kushner
#81. Judaism is one of the last of the world's matrilineal philosophies. Matriarchies are always the cultures that patriarchy attacks and decimates, because they don't spend all their money on the military like patriarchy does. They are easy prey.
Roseanne Barr
#82. If I am right the Germans will say I was a German, and the French will say I was a Jew; If I am wrong the Germans will say I was a Jew and the French will say I was a German.
Albert Einstein
#83. The descendants of Abraham were flattered by the opinion, that they alone were the heirs of the covenant, and they were apprehensive of diminishing the value of their inheritance, by sharing it too easily with the strangers of the earth.
Edward Gibbon
#84. If this be the Messiah, then I do not wish to see his coming
Ahad Ha'am
#85. Since Hiroshima and the Holocaust, science no longer holds its pristine place as the highest moral authority. Instead, that role is taken by human rights. It follows that any assault on Jewish life - on Jews or Judaism or the Jewish state - must be cast in the language of human rights.
Jonathan Sacks
#86. The ruach blows wherever it pleases. You hear its sound, but cannot tell from where it comes or where it goes. God is He, He is Ruach (Spirit) and Ruach is speaking to our ruach (spirit) revealing great mysteries, knowledge, wisdom, understanding and joy.
Sipporah Joseph
#87. I think you can't really escape any kind of spiritual education as a child, whether it's New Age or Judaism or Buddhism or whatever it is. You can't escape it, even if you completely disagree with it, you still have it as a foundation that you base things off of.
Jack White
#88. In all church discussions we are apt to forget the second Testament is avowedly only a supplement. Jesus came to complete the law and the prophets. Christianity is completed Judaism, or it is nothing. Christianity is incomprehensible without Judaism, as Judaism is incomplete without Christianity.
Benjamin Disraeli
#89. Patriarchy is a bully notion, which if you will notice never attacks a nation that can defend itself. Zionism is patriarchal and sets Judaism on its head.
Roseanne Barr
#90. Whatever you may think of Judaism, Lyuba, in the end it's just a codified system of anxieties.
Gary Shteyngart
#91. Compassion is the key in Islam and Buddhism and Judaism and Christianity. They are profoundly similar.
Karen Armstrong
#92. Judaism is important to me from a tribal point of view.
Vidal Sassoon
#94. Perhaps the main stumbling block to a better, and more fruitful, theological relationship with Judaism and the Jewish people has been the tendency of many Christian theologians to see the Christ event as the end of history.
David Novak
#95. My belief is that I wasn't born into Judaism by accident, and so I needed to find ways to honor that.
Ram Dass
#96. The relation between Judaism, Zionism, and Messianism is one that is often hard for Jews to get straight. Needless to say, it is even harder for non-Jews.
David Novak
#97. Christians must be Jews. The truth of what we believe depends on the truth of Judaism, depends on the first covenant.
Michael Novak
#98. Yet what choice did he have? Nothing about this war was fair. Nothing about being Jewish was fair, The only question that counted was whether he wanted to live or not, and he did.
Joel C. Rosenberg
#99. Being Jewish means loving something that's gone. Your parents, your grandparents, the place they came from. Jerusalem itself. Creation.
Michael Davidow
#100. [Kurt Cobain] had a lot of German in him. Some Irish. But no Jew. I think that if he had had a little Jew he would have [expletive] stuck it out.
Courtney Love
