Quotes About Shalom

#1. Shalom Aleichem!!

Avner Gold

#2. Reweaving shalom means to sacrificially thread, lace, and press your time, goods, power, and resources into the lives and needs of others.

Timothy Keller

#3. No more wars, no more bloodshed. Peace unto you. Shalom, salaam, forever.

Menachem Begin

#4. If we as Christians with a faithful witness would set the example, not by way of reaction but by way of reasoned empathy, we might set the tone for more shalom in our world.

Scot McKnight

#5. Christ comes, and his very coming demonstrates that God's favor rests on us, and that peace, peace, peace is available to us all. Shalom. Everything we need to live whole lives, to live wholly, to live holy.

Jane Rubietta

#6. To speak of sin without grace is to minimize the resurrection of Jesus Christ, the fruit of the Spirit, and the hope of shalom.

Cornelius Plantinga

#7. Shalom is understood to mean peace, but peace is only one part of the word's real meaning. The root shalem means completeness.

Celso Cukierkorn

#8. They never fought. I mean it: they never fought. In the evening, she did her sewing and he read his paper and we did our homework and we had what the Israelis call shalom bait, peace in the home.

Edith Hahn Beer

#9. The followers of Jesus will begin to demonstrate a new set of horizons for human life to their neighbors and even to their enemies - the horizons of shalom, the horizons of true humanity living in dependence on God.

Andy Crouch

#10. And Carolina will be cheering on the beautiful daughter of Magda and Shalom Singer, the new Lady America Singer!

Kiera Cass

#11. My parents divorced when I was a boy and I have since devoted my life to healing families, which is what my TV show 'Shalom in the Home' is all about.

Shmuley Boteach

#12. Faith is a day-to-day lifestyle and experience of Jesus Christ. That's what we are experiencing at Shalom, when we plant in faith - even in the dust - and trust in him for the miracles of his love.

Angus Buchan

#13. Koran says whoever believes in God in the last day shall be saved. It is a religion whose very name, Islam, comes from the word Shalom, which means peace. It's about establishing peace. We greet each other with peace be upon you, which the Jews do in greeting each other.

Feisal Abdul Rauf

#14. Being in relationship with Jesus, "God, The One and Only", is the single cure for hatred ... the only guarantee of salam or shalom!

Gary Patton

#15. So we work for better political and economic systems, knowing that sin precludes any earthly utopia now, but rejoicing in the assurance that the kingdom of shalom that the Messiah has already begun will one day prevail, and the kingdoms of this world will become the kingdom of our Lord.

Ronald J. Sider

#16. Salvation is to accept one's place in the story of faith whose theme is shalom.

Daniel Taylor

#17. We reject the lies of inequality, we affirm the Spirit, we forgive radically, we advocate for love and demonstrate it by folding laundry, and we live these Kingdom ways of shalom prophetically in the world.

Sarah Bessey

#18. Shalom is the medicine I'd prescribe for Jerusalem - a deep, God-breathed indwelling of peace and prosperity and blessing. An end to the unrest and a sense of wholeness is what the Holy City needs. It's what the Middle East needs. It's what I need.

Jared Brock

#19. The security fence is reversible. Human lives are irreversible.

Silvan Shalom

#20. The Kugels, Kugel hated to admit, might just have to, in the event of genocide, rely on the kindness of strangers.
Mother used to say: I can name six million people who relied on the kindness of strangers.

Shalom Auslander

#21. Suck is life,[ ... ]:you get to a point, one day, where you are hoping to find crap; where the best possible outcome of all possible outcomes would be the discovery, praise Jesus, of a pile of shit

Shalom Auslander

#22. When I first saw tap dancing, I immediately got it: the righteousness of being able to make so much noise with your feet!

Shalom Harlow

#23. In the beginning, New York and I had kind of a love-hate relationship. It seemed so abrasive compared to Europe. But the transformation here in recent years is really something. I don't think I would have seen as much change if I'd lived in any other city in the world.

Shalom Harlow

#24. My favorite New York memory is that blizzard in '96. I get chills thinking about it. It's my favorite time here - call me crazy. I'm from Canada, and it's very cold up there.

Shalom Harlow

#25. Kugel set off, the wind in what would have been, some years ago, his hair.

Shalom Auslander

#26. Every Jew was the last Jew; Tevye the Terminal, every single one. Yet, Kugel couldn't help but observe, in all that time - no last Jew. There had been a last Assyrian. There had been a last Ammonite. There had been a last Babylonian, a last Mesopotamian, a last of the Mohicans. But no last Jew.

Shalom Auslander

#27. Most of the international community, most of the countries around the world, don't want any side, any party to take unilateral steps. They would like that all of us to stick to the road map.

Silvan Shalom

#28. Nature is another name for the miracles that are so commonplace in our lives that we take for granted and have grown used to seeing them.

Shalom Arush

#29. So desperate was Kugel for things to turn out for the best, proclaimed Professor Jove, that he couldn't stop worrying about the worst. Hope, said Professor Jove, was Solomon Kugel's greatest failing.

Shalom Auslander

#30. Maybe when I'd dead, he thought. Maybe when I'm dead I'll get some goddamned sleep.

Shalom Auslander

#31. At the end of the day; what really matters, is the love we sowed ...
Remember: true love will always find its way back home ...

Glory Shalom

#32. Kugel wondered if in these days of the Internet you would even need a Miep Gies anymore, if you could make it through a genocide these days with just a smartphone and a credit card, and he was hopeful that in the event of another Holocaust, he would have some sort of broadband Internet access.

Shalom Auslander

#33. You can hope all you want for a happy ending, but sometimes, like it or not, the guy writing your story is working on a tragedy; you may not even be the main character.

Shalom Auslander

#34. My parents wished peace upon their firstborn child.

Shalom Harlow

#35. It's become more and more of a priority for me to tread as lightly as possible in the world.

Shalom Harlow

#36. You don't have to live in the country and grow your own food to be green.

Shalom Harlow

#37. How can I find a way out
when I do not know how
to begin to resist?

Shalom Freedman

#38. His hope was that she would finish her damn book quietly and just leave; that one morning he would awaken and go up to the attic, and Anne Frank would be gone, and he could go on with his life, Anne-free. One hundred percent Frankless. Now with Less Genocide.

Shalom Auslander

#39. It's not a democracy here, it's the Middle East.

Silvan Shalom

#40. I kind of like it up here, Kugel said. It's got a certain fatalistic charm, a certain je ne sais fucked.

Shalom Auslander

#41. Nobody responds to being made to feel judged.

Shalom Harlow

#42. I feel more comfortable with my clothes off than on!

Shalom Harlow

#43. People think if you're a model then you must take yourself way too seriously.

Shalom Harlow

#44. I find myself dreaming of doing normal things - like staying home and washing dishes.

Shalom Harlow

#45. We have been in the territories since 1967. In 2002, we had sometimes three or four suicide attacks every day. We came to the conclusion that it can't continue like that.

Silvan Shalom

#46. Let him be floored, O Lord, thought Kugel.
Let him be stunned.
Let him be flabber-fucking-gasted.

Shalom Auslander

#47. I was too thin. I was working all the time, not eating at home. Spaghetti bolognese on planes. Ugh. Now most of my meals I cook for myself with organic ingredients.

Shalom Harlow

#48. When I started coming to do shows in New York, New York had a pretty electric energy then. It was the early-nineties, and there was a lot of really fun theatrical types that were designing, and so the runway kind of became this stage for all of these mega model personalities to flaunt their stuff.

Shalom Harlow

#49. My point is that death is more tragic than life, than any life, because every life has hope of some kind.

Shalom Auslander

#50. My rabbis taught me that it was wrong to say God caused the Holocaust; that he simply, in 1938, turned His head. He looked away.

Shalom Auslander

#51. What a world, thought Kugel; whoever you were, wherever you were, whatever time of the day or night, you could open your back door and call out I know you're out there motherfucker, and nine times out of ten you'd be right.

Shalom Auslander

#52. You don't learn style from watching people on a runway. Fashion happens every morning when you wake up.

Shalom Harlow

#53. In my view, Arafat is the only Palestinian in the world that isn't willing to have an independent Palestinian state.

Silvan Shalom

#54. Hiding from genocide inside a Jew's attic, thought Kugel, is like hiding from a lion inside a gazelle.

Shalom Auslander

#55. Cease-fire is important, but it can last only for a very, very, very short time.

Silvan Shalom

#56. No one can compare us to the apartheid regime. It's not like in South Africa between the blacks and the whites who belong to the same nation, or in Berlin where you find parents living on the eastern side and their children in the western side.

Silvan Shalom

#57. I'd like to ask you: what you would prefer us to do? I'd like to ask my colleagues, would any other country act differently? I think the answer is very clear. No one would act differently.

Silvan Shalom

#58. We believe that we should come to an agreement with the Palestinians. But we need two to tango.

Silvan Shalom

#59. Written with passion, honesty, humor, and a stubborn, rebellious optimism, Dear Marcus is like nothing I've ever read. When a bullet in the back told Jerry McGill not to go on, Jerry went on-smiling.

Shalom Auslander

#60. Inner stillness is the key to outer strength.

Jared Brock

#61. There is hurt in this world. There is pain. Hoping there won't be only makes it worse.

Shalom Auslander

#62. Suicide bombers caused us more than 50 percent of our casualties. The fence works. There is a decline in the number of those terrorist attacks against Israelis.

Silvan Shalom

#63. Roads are no place for naive chickens dreaming of nirvana.

Shalom Auslander

#64. Expecting hell, we're ill prepared for heaven.

Shalom Auslander

#65. Compost makes houseplants very happy.

Shalom Harlow

#66. There's no preventative measure between the Palestinians, between those terrorists to the state of Israel.

Silvan Shalom

#67. This, said Mother, as she handed him a piece of dry, tasteless matzoh, is the bread of our affliction. Where, young Kugel wondered, is the seven-layer cake of our salvation? Where is the muffin of our mirth? Where is our no-longer-reduced-to-jelly doughnut?

Shalom Auslander

#68. I was scouted at a Cure concert. A model scout approached me there and asked me if I modeled, and I thought that was ludicrous.

Shalom Harlow

#69. We would like to ease the life of the Palestinians. I prepared a new plan that we call a positive agenda.

Silvan Shalom

#70. Stop expecting more from us than we can possibly provide, and you'll stop being so disappointed.

Shalom Auslander

#71. I think there's a lot projected on beautiful women, period. At least, maybe this is just my fear, but I do sometimes feel dismissed before I've even been allowed to participate. I have moments of feeling really wounded. But I am pretty optimistic, and I do enjoy a lot of my life.

Shalom Harlow

#72. I've recently started composting in my apartment, which is quite an adventure.

Shalom Harlow

#73. Vans are the vehicles of murderers. Serial Killers. Rapists. Thieves. Nothing good ever happens in a van. Police should be allowed to arrest van drivers without cause. The van is the cause, asshole.

Shalom Auslander

#74. I moved a pillow aside ... preferring the joyful company of the delusional to the miserable company of the sane.

Shalom Auslander

#75. He took the diary from Mother's hand and turned it over. The heartbreaking something, he read, of a tragic whatever.

Shalom Auslander

#76. I believe in a personal God; everything I do, He takes personally.

Shalom Auslander

#77. In 1988, King Hussein of Jordan said that it doesn't take any connection any more to those territories, and he would like to split from those territories. So according to the international law, it doesn't belong to anyone.

Silvan Shalom

#78. SOLOMON KUGEL
His performance, of late,
had been subpar.
Born, unfortunately. Died eventually.

Shalom Auslander

#79. I love the percussion. It's a right brain, left brain thing. There are different beats, but cooperating together. It's your whole body doing it, you're doing the snare drum and the high top with your hands and the bass drum with your foot. You're this whole motion machine.

Shalom Harlow

#80. Sages tell us that the Torah tells us that until the age of thirteen, all of boy's sins are ascribed to his father.

Shalom Auslander

#81. Clothes should just be like a beautiful setting for a jewel: They should offset you.

Shalom Harlow

#82. The greatest source of misery in the world, the greatest cause of anguish and hatred and sadness and death, was neither disease nor race nor religion. It was hope.

Shalom Auslander

#83. His intelligence only exacerbated the guilt Kugel felt for bringing him into the world. It was one thing to have condemned a child to life, that was criminal enough, but life was a sentence more easily served by fools.

Shalom Auslander

#84. We are not going to damage our safety and our security. We're not going to give those extremists the privilege to come so freely to Israel in order to carry out more attacks against us and kill us one day after another.

Silvan Shalom

#85. Write something dangerous. Say something you shouldn't. Blow something up. But well.

Shalom Auslander

#86. I spent the best years of my life atoning for something I didn't do, something my parents didn't do, something done just about before I was ever even born. I got no complaints with that, but I'm about all atoned out, and I ain't yet gotten round to atoning for the things I did do.

Shalom Auslander

#87. We have the responsibility to protect our people and that's why we're building this fence. We've suffered from 19,000 terrorist attacks during the last three years.

Silvan Shalom

#88. He could pull this off. He was sure of it. It would have been one thing to protect Anne Frank from the Nazis; he was pretty sure he couldn't have managed that. But protecting his family from Anne Frank? How difficult could that be?

Shalom Auslander

#89. The Palestinians will never, never implement their commitment to dismantle their infrastructure of terrorist organizations.

Silvan Shalom

#90. Kugel was a firm believer that death was not always a bad thing - that life often reached such levels of crapitude that dying was preferable to living.

Shalom Auslander