Jacob Neusner quotes

“Do not let people put you down. Believe in yourself and stand for yourself and trust yourself.”
-- Jacob Neusner

Source : Jacob Neusner (1984). “How to grade your professors, and other unexpected advice”, Beacon Press (MA)

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“You do not need to justify asking questions. But if you think you have found answers, you do not have the right to remain silent.”
-- Jacob Neusner

Source : Jacob Neusner (2007). “How To Grade Your Professors: And Other Unexpected Advice”, p.11, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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“A religion shapes the world of its believers by identifying questions that need answers and providing answers that people 'know' to be true. ­”
-- Jacob Neusner

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“Religion is something people do together to face urgent problems and to resolve them by appealing to truths that seem self-evident to them.”
-- Jacob Neusner

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“But the more insidious enemies of religion recognize but deplore religion's remarkable influence in the world order.”
-- Jacob Neusner

Source : Jacob Neusner (1991). “The Twentieth Century Construction of "Judaism": Essays on the Religion of Torah in the History of Religion”, University of South Florida

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“One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.”

“If you would be a better teacher, teach by the spirit. That is the thing that gives strength and power, meaning and life, to our otherwise weak efforts... remember, you cannot give away that which you do not possess. Study the life of the master. You do not have to have a college degree to be an efficient teacher. But you do have to become acquainted with the life and teachings of the master to be an effective teacher in the church.”

“The gods have fled, I know. My sense is the gods have always been essentially absent. I do not believe human beings have played games or sports from the beginning merely to summon or to please or to appease the gods. If anthropologists and historians believe that, it is because they believe whatever they have been able to recover about what humankind told the gods humankind was doing. I believe we have played games, and watched games, to imitate the gods, to become godlike in our worship of eachother and, through those moments of transmutation, to know for an instant what the gods know.”

“Rather than making money I believe in making people happy, all other things are secondary. Money isn't important, creative satisfaction is”

“There's the South Pole, said Christopher Robin, and I expect there's an East Pole and a West Pole, though people don't like talking about them.”

“Often we want people to pray for us and help us, but we always defeat our object when we look too much to them and lean upon them. The true secret of union is for both to look upon God, and in the act of looking past themselves to Him they are unconsciously united.”

“We must see what in the Israeli identity - in the Israeli - we can give to other people rather than speaking so often of taking, expanding territory.”

“People who deal with life generously and large-heartedly go on multiplying relationships to the end.”

“The bells they sound on Bredon, And still the steeples hum. "Come all to church, good people"- Oh, noisy bells, be dumb; I hear you, I will come.”

“Find a need and fill it. Successful businesses are founded on the needs of people.”