Irving Greenberg quotes

“The proper response, as Hanukkah teaches, is not to curse the darkness but to light a candle.”
-- Irving Greenberg

Source : Irving Greenberg (2011). “The Jewish Way: Living the Holidays”, p.282, Simon and Schuster

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“No statement, theological or otherwise, should be made that would not be credible in the presence of burning children.”
-- Irving Greenberg

Source : Irving Greenberg (1998). “The Jewish Way: Living the Holidays”, p.253, Jason Aronson, Incorporated

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“Our generation is wonderful generation, full of wonder. It's very hard to find an example of it in all our history. Composed of contradictions — light and darkness mixed.”

“God is not a hypothesis derived from logical assumptions, but an immediate insight, self-evident as light. He is not something to be sought in the darkness with the light of reason. He is the light.”

“As there is no darkness in the moonlight. So is Mustafa (Muhammad), the well wisher, bright.”

“My painting represents the victory of the forces of darkness and peace over the powers of light and evil.”

Source : Ad Reinhardt (1975). “Art-as-art: the selected writings of Ad Reinhardt”, Viking Adult

“She was the kind of person who would rather light a candle than curse the darkness.”

“In a time of darkness, you don't curse the darkness, you light a candle.”

“Science has explained nothing; the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness.”

“Of darkness visible so much be lent, as half to show, half veil, the deep intent.”

“Still ours the dance, the feast, the glorious Psalm, The mystic lights of emblem, and the Word.”

Source : Emma Lazarus (2015). “The Poems of Emma Lazarus, Volume II: Jewish Poems and Translations”, p.19, Courier Corporation

“The proper response, as Hanukkah teaches, is not to curse the darkness but to light a candle.”

Source : Irving Greenberg (2011). “The Jewish Way: Living the Holidays”, p.282, Simon and Schuster