#moses

Every mother is like Moses. She does not enter the promised land. She prepares a world she will not see. ↗

— Pope Paul VI

#enter #every #land #like #moses

First, it is not unimportant that the legislative texts of the Old Testament are placed in the mouth of Moses and within the narrative framework of the sojourn at Sinai. ↗

— Paul Ricoeur

#framework #legislative #moses #mouth #narrative

I have wondered at times what the Ten Commandments would have looked like if Moses had run them through the US Congress. ↗

— Ronald Reagan

#congress #had #i #like #looked

How do we know that Moses was grown up? Because he went out unto his brethren, and was ready to bear the burdens and share the plight of his people. Maturity is sensitivity to human suffering. ↗

— Julius Gordon

#because #brethren #burdens #grown #his

Because you know that's all I needs, all I wants, is for you to try to run, to turn your back on me and run. I know you aint going to. Because all you got to beat is me. I got to beat old Carothers. Get your pistol." "No," the other said. "Go home. Get out of here. Tonight I will come to your house-----" "After this?" Lucas said. "Me and you, in the same country, breathing the same air even? No matter what you could say, what you could even prove so I would have to believe it, after this? Get your pistol. ↗

— William Faulkner

#dramatic-moment #go-down-moses #william-faulkner #home

Let me tell you the one thing I have against Moses. He took us forty years into the desert in order to bring us to the one place in the Middle East that has no oil! ↗

— Golda Meir

#funny #moses #funny

Man has made 32 million laws since the Commandments were handed down to Moses on Mount Sinai... but he has never improved on God's law. ↗

— Cecil B. DeMille

#down #god #handed #improved #law

Moses was getting to know God as Jehovah-Rohi, his Shepherd. Like a shepherd, God would feed and lead Moses as he led the people of Israel. “I will be with you,” God said earlier. What music that must have been to Moses’ ears! He took this promise by faith and thus was able to step confidently into his life purpose. “He tends his flock like a shepherd: He gathers the lambs in his arms and carries them close to his heart; he gently leads those that have young…” –Isaiah 40:11. ↗

— Beth Willis Miller

#moses #shepherd #age

The only thing I know about Moses is him coming down from the mountain with the commandments and saying 'The good news is I got him down to 10. The bad news is adultery is still in. ↗

— Steve Kluger

#humor #moses #humor

If Moses had been paid newspaper rates for the Ten Commandments, he might have written the Two Thousand Commandments. ↗

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

#commandments #had #might #moses #newspaper