Alfred Edersheim quotes
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“For God to explain a trial would be to destroy its purpose, calling forth simple faith and implicit obedience.”
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“Let me be one of the upward and outward lookers, not one of the downward and inward lookers.”
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“God is the God of the present as well as of the future...even here on earth, He reigneth, dispensing good and evil.”
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“There is ever the prior question of plain duty, with which nothing else, however tempting or promising of success, can come into conflict; and such seasons may be only those when our faith and patience are put on trial, so as to bring it clearly before us, whether or not, quite irrespective of all else, we are content to leave everything in the hands of God.”
-- Alfred EdersheimSource : Alfred Edersheim (2013). “Bible History: Old Testament”, p.510, Ravenio Books
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“So true is it that all sin is ultimately against the Lord; so bitter is the root of self.”
-- Alfred EdersheimSource : Alfred Edersheim (2013). “Bible History: Old Testament”, p.489, Ravenio Books
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“We cannot understand the meaning of many trials; God does not explain them. To explain a trial would be to destroy its object, which is that of calling forth simple faith and implicit obedience. If we knew why the Lord sent us this or that trial, it would thereby cease to be a trial either of faith or of patience.”
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“An outward observance without any real inward meaning is only a ceremony.”
-- Alfred EdersheimSource : Alfred Edersheim (1874). “The Temple: Its Ministry and Services, as They Were at the Time of Jesus Christ”, p.80
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Source : Achmat Dangor (1999). “Kafka's Curse”, Pantheon
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Source : Adam Gopnik (2000). “Paris to the Moon”, Random House Incorporated
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Source : "To Save a Life: Stories of Holocaust Rescue" edited by Ellen Land-Weber, Part I, Holland, Ch. 1, (p. 48), 2000.
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Source : "Beastie Boys: 'We can't make new music' and may never play live again" by Sean Michaels, www.theguardian.com. June 3, 2014.
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“When we're in our true being, the purpose of life is to feel that every moment is the purpose.”
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