#judaism

[Kurt Cobain] had a lot of German in him. Some Irish. But no Jew. I think that if he had had a little Jew he would have [expletive] stuck it out. ↗

— Courtney Love

#germans #germany #ireland #irish #jews

We realize that Judaism as a faith can survive only in an atmosphere of general faith. ↗

— Louis Finkelstein

#faith #general #judaism #only #realize

The attempt made in recent decades by secularist thinkers to disengage the moral principles of western civilization from their scripturally based religious context, in the assurance that they could live a life of their own as "humanistic" ethics, has resulted in our "cut flower culture." Cut flowers retain their original beauty and fragrance, but only so long as they retain the vitality that they have drawn from their now-severed roots; after that is exhausted, they wither and die. So with freedom, brotherhood, justice, and personal dignity — the values that form the moral foundation of our civilization. Without the life-giving power of the faith out of which they have sprung, they possess neither meaning nor vitality. ↗

— Will Herberg

#faith #judaism #religion #secularism #western-civilization

during the long period which elapsed between the Egyptian and the Babylonian servitudes, the hopes as well as fears of the Jews appear to have been confined within the narrow compass of the present life. ↗

— Edward Gibbon

#judaism #faith

Judaism teaches us the sentence, “The Lord is One,” is not exclusive to Adonai, but rather inclusive of everything, everything, everything! Did you get that? Everything is One. This means far more than the teaching we are all connected. That teaching could be speaking biologically, or even atomically. I am talking about more than even the microscopic connection we all share. More than our DNA. ↗

— Laura Weakley

#inspirational-religious #jewishness #judaism #torah #inspirational

Yes I am, I am also a Muslim, a Christian, a Buddhist, and a Jew. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#christian #christianity #hindu #hinduism #islam

The foundation of religion is not the affirmation that God is, but that God is concerned with man and the world; that, having created the world, he has not abandoned it, leaving it to its own devices; that he cares for his creation. ↗

— Eliezer Berkovits

#religion #religion

Our society is the product of several great religious and philosophical traditions. The ideas of the Greeks and Romans, Christianity, Judaism, humanism and the Enlightenment have made us who we are. ↗

— Jan Peter Balkenende

#enlightenment #great #greeks #humanism #ideas

What is supposed to be the very essence of Judaism - which is the notion that it is by study that you make yourself a holy people - is nowhere present in Hebrew tradition before the end of the first or the beginning of the second century of the Common Era. ↗

— Harold Bloom

#beginning #century #common #end #era

I believe in Judaism, I was raised a Jew, I'm happy to be one - or proud to be one. ↗

— Michael Bloomberg

#happy #i #i believe #i believe in #i was raised