Hebrew Quotes

In fact, the ultimate speculation we can make about the nature of Divinity is that Divinity is NO-THING which we can know. In Hebrew, the word for no-thing (nothing) is AIN.

The Providence of God is like Hebrew words-it can be read only backwards.

I learned enough Hebrew to stagger through a meaningless ceremony that I scarcely remember.

I speak fluent Hebrew and even dream in Hebrew when we visit there, once or twice a year.

The assets of the Jewish National Home must be created exclusively through our own work, for only the product of the Hebrew labor can serve as the national estate.

I don't have any religion. I'm Hebrew by nationality. My religion is just God. I have no religion, I just believe in the Most High.

You should do what we do, stack chips like Hebrews.

The Lord knows that I could not open scripture; he must by his prophetical office open it unto me. So after that being unsatisfied in the thing, the Lord was pleased to bring this scripture out of the Hebrews.

I have always been edified by Hebrew prayers.

Some providences, like Hebrew letters, must be read backwards.

There is no word in Hebrew for religion, by the way.

I decline to accept Hebrew mythology as a guide to twentieth-century science.

What do Japanese Jews love to eat? Hebrew National Tsunami.

God presents the Sabbath rest as a shelter we can enter. (Hebrews 4:1-11)

My own interest is far more in the Hebrew Bible. My religion is more personally related to the Hebrew Bible than it is to the New Testament.

It is only in Hebrew that you feel the full meaning of it -- all the associations which a different word has.

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

It is a fact that the classics of Yiddish literature are also the classics of the modern Hebrew literature.

Rest in the Lord; wait patiently for Him. In Hebrew, "Be silent in God, and let Him mould thee." Keep still, and He will mould thee to the right shape.

I might do something in Arabic. I might do something in Hebrew.

It sometimes happens to me while writing, that I seek a word; mischievous as it is it appears in English, it appears in Arabic, but refuses to come in Hebrew. To some extent I made up my Hebrew. Unquestionably, the influence of Arabic is dominant, my syntax is almost Arabic.

The republican model described in the Hebrew Scriptures reassured pious Americans that republicanism was a political system favored by God.

However, the word madda in modern Hebrew specifically means science.

You have miracles [in the Hebrew Bible], yes, but they're not the work, normally, of demons.

[My father was ] Presbyterian [minister]. But I did not take the Bible seriously until I was forced to take Hebrew at McCormick Theological Seminary.

I say let's be idealists. "Faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not yet see" (Hebrews 11:1).

I've never seen a movie in Hebrew about Jesus. I have three kids, I don't have enough time to watch TV.

Since the Exodus, freedom has always spoken with a Hebrew accent.

There are certain concepts, which exist in english, and are unthinkable, untranslatable into Hebrew and vice versa.

Faith is for the future. Faith builds on the past but never longs to stay there. Faith trusts that God has great things in store for each of us and that Christ truly is the “high priest of good things to come” (Hebrews 9:11).

It is impossible for me to conceive of a character more utterly detestable than that of the Hebrew god.

The Hebrew will turn Christian; he grows kind.

Hebrews . This book is much superior to most of the writings attributed to St. Paul, though passages in the other books are very admirable.

Hebrew is deeply inspired by other languages.

With the Hebrew Bible, you're living in an austere world.

Hebrew is this unique thing that you cannot translate to any other language. It has to do with its history.

I write in words. And my words are Hebrew words.

Happily, I come out of a Calvinist tradition in which the Hebrew Bible carries as much authority as the New Testament. No different weight is given to one or the other.

I always had, you know, in the book of Hebrews, I think it's chapter 11, verse 1, where it says, "Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen." I always had this sense that there was something on the other side. That there was something better.

Hebrew was frozen, like frozen peas, fresh out of the Bible.

Sublimity is Hebrew by birth.

I have trouble reading modern Hebrew. In the 1950s, I could read anything. I don't know how much experience you've had with contemporary Hebrew. It's quite difficult.

I think there are one or two things similar in Elizabethan English and contemporary Hebrew. This is not to say that every one of us Israeli writers is a William Shakespeare, but there is a certain similarity to Elizabethan English.

The Hebrew Bible defines Judaism. It's certainly true that the Talmudic interpretations become authoritative and normative, but they are interpretations of the Hebrew Bible. So that is always there.

Before Ben-Yehuda... Jews could speak Hebrew; after him they did.

At McCormick Theological Seminary I had to take Hebrew, so I began to read prophetic poetry, and suddenly it became the life I wanted to spend.