Wolpe Quotes

#1. Still when it comes to finding fault we are fonder of windows than of mirrors.

David Wolpe

#2. I see the role of a rabbi or a pastor in general sort of like the role of a quarterback who throws the ball a little bit ahead of the receiver - that is you want to make people run just a bit to catch up to the message that you offer.

David Wolpe

#3. Making sense of everything is not an obligation or even a possibility. Acceptance of mystery is an act not of resignation but humility. - David Wolpe

Lois Tverberg

#4. You are inexperienced. So was I, once. So is every man. The measure of a person is not how much they have lived ... It's in how they make us of what life has shown them.

Brandon Sanderson

#5. Shlomo Carlebach used to say, if he meets a student who says he is a Protestant, he knows he is a Protestant; if he meets a student who says he is a Catholic, he knows he is a Catholic. If he meets a student who says he is a human being, he knows he is a Jew.

David Wolpe

#6. Yet it is not our part to master all the tides of the world, but to do what is in us for the succour of those years wherein we are set, uprooting the evil in the fields that we know, so that those who live after may have clean earth to till.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#7. The measure of human character is our reaction to dark times. No one can sidestep darkness. It is the throne upon which light sits. If a soul has not known sadness and struggle, there is no chance of overcoming, no cherishing the dawn.

David Wolpe

#8. The only whole heart is a broken one because it lets the light in.

David J. Wolpe

#9. No," Jack struggled to quip, "but

Linda Lael Miller

#10. Prayer is less about changing the world than it is about changing ourselves.

David Wolpe

#11. Clear, crisp, and compelling ... Mitzvah Girls is a thoughtful look at the world of Jewish girls who grow up in 21st-century America, but don't really.

David Wolpe

#12. One of the things that makes God different from people is that God is always available to listen.

David Wolpe

#13. It doesn't have to be somber to be sacred.

David Wolpe

#14. Seated at the table, high in her firmament of gin, she looked critically at her brother and his wife, remembering some real or imagined injustice of her youth, for with any proximity the constellations of some families generate among themselves an asperity that nothing can sweeten.

John Cheever

#15. You are too smart and too knowledgeable to believe much of the nonsense you have been espousing on global warming and many other issues.

Howard Wolpe

#16. There's as much risk in doing nothing as in doing something" - Trammell Crow

Clyde Wolpe

#17. You certainly do have strange dreams.

Frederick Lenz

#18. Faith is not knowledge of what the mystery of the universe is, but the conviction that there is a mystery, and that it is greater than us.

David Wolpe

#19. Professor Branestawm

Norman Hunter

#20. Anybody doing something brings something to it.

John Malkovich

#21. Time is something that fills the empty spaces of life

Tom Clancy

#22. May your wonder always exceed your certainty.

David Wolpe

#23. You have to guard the integrity of your soul and what you believe and have a certain amount of faith not only the country but in God that this is part of the mission.

David Wolpe