1.
The aim of spiritual formation is not behavior modification but the transformation of all those aspects of you and me where behavior comes from...Circumcision of the heart.
Dallas Willard
The objective of spiritual growth is not merely changing conduct but the alteration of all components which contribute to our behavior...Inward purification.
2.
The Ten Commandments have lost their validity...Conscience is a Jewish invention. It is a blemish like circumcision.
Adolf Hitler
3.
It is hard for a woman with whom an uncircumcised man has had sexual intercourse to separate from him. In my opinion this is the strongest of the reasons for circumcision.
Maimonides
5.
I also survived circumcision, a barbaric practice designed to remind you as early as possible that your genitals are not your own.
George Carlin
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Circumcision stands for a religion of human achievement, of what man can do by his own good works; Christ stands for a religion of divine achievement, of what God has done through the finished work of Christ.
John Stott
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They're talking about partial nuclear disarmament, which is also like talking about partial circumcision - you either go all the way or forget it.
Robin Williams
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Take it from me because I learned the hard way: circumcisions are best left to professionals.
Mark Hoppus
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The piety of the Hebrew prophets purges their grossness. The circumcision is an example of the power of poetry to raise the low and offensive.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
12.
The egg cream is psychologically the opposite of circumcision--it pleasurably reaffirms your Jewishness.
Mel Brooks
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What are you doing now?” Al questioned, listing heavily as he tucked another one of those bottles under his arm and staggered for the cot half hidden behind a curtain. “Seeing if your circumcision is gone? It is.
Kim Harrison