Quotes and Sayings About Hebrew
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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.
-- Anne Hutchinson -
Before Ben-Yehuda... Jews could speak Hebrew; after him they did.
-- Cecil Roth -
God presents the Sabbath rest as a shelter we can enter. (Hebrews 4:1-11)
-- Charles R. Swindoll -
I learned enough Hebrew to stagger through a meaningless ceremony that I scarcely remember.
-- David Antin -
It is only in Hebrew that you feel the full meaning of it -- all the associations which a different word has.
-- David Ben-Gurion -
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.
-- David Ben-Gurion -
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.
-- Donald Michael Kraig -
I decline to accept Hebrew mythology as a guide to twentieth-century science.
-- Elizabeth Cady Stanton -
Bad English was the second language of Israel and bad Hebrew, of course, remained the national language.
-- George Mikes -
Since the Exodus, freedom has always spoken with a Hebrew accent.
-- Heinrich Heine -
Hebrews . This book is much superior to most of the writings attributed to St. Paul, though passages in the other books are very admirable.
-- James F. Cooper -
Physics is nothing but the ABC's. Nature is an equation with an unknown, a Hebrew word which is written only with consonants to which reason has to add the dots.
-- Johann Georg Hamann -
Berzelius' symbols are horrifying. A young student in chemistry might as soon learn Hebrew as make himself acquainted with them... They appear to me equally to perplex the adepts in science, to discourage the learner, as well as to cloud the beauty and simplicity of the atomic theory.
-- John Dalton -
The Providence of God is like Hebrew words-it can be read only backwards.
-- John Flavel -
Some providences, like Hebrew letters, must be read backwards.
-- John Flavel -
As socialists, we are opponents of the Jews, because we see in the Hebrews the incarnation of capitalism, of the misuse of the nation's goods.
-- Joseph Goebbels -
I speak fluent Hebrew and even dream in Hebrew when we visit there, once or twice a year.
-- Natalie Portman -
However, the word madda in modern Hebrew specifically means science.
-- Norman Lamm -
Live on the divine Eucharist, like the Hebrews did on the Manna. Your soul can be entirely dedicated to the divine Eucharist and very holy in the midst of your work and contacts with the world.
-- Peter Julian Eymard -
You should do what we do, stack chips like Hebrews.
-- Puff Daddy -
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.
-- Sami Michael -
I've never seen a movie in Hebrew about Jesus. I have three kids, I don't have enough time to watch TV.
-- Aviv Alush -
The republican model described in the Hebrew Scriptures reassured pious Americans that republicanism was a political system favored by God.
-- Daniel L Dreisbach -
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.
-- Frank Moore Cross -
With the Hebrew Bible, you're living in an austere world.
-- Frank Moore Cross -
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.
-- Frank Moore Cross -
You have miracles [in the Hebrew Bible], yes, but they're not the work, normally, of demons.
-- Frank Moore Cross -
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.
-- Frank Moore Cross -
[My father was ] Presbyterian [minister]. But I did not take the Bible seriously until I was forced to take Hebrew at McCormick Theological Seminary.
-- Hershel Shanks
