Hebrew Quotes
Hebrew Quote of the day
Some people read their Bibles in Hebrew, some in Greek; I like to read mine in the Holy Ghost.
The Hebrew language will go from the synagogue to the house of study, and from the house of study to the school, and from the school it will come into the home and... become a living language
Hebrew word for "charity" tzedakah, simply means "justice" and as this suggests, for Jews, giving to the poor is no optional extra but an essential part of living a just life.
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.
Hebrew is the most wonderful of languages, a language of a thousand antonyms, hard and strong as steel, while soft and gleaming as gold.
In high school I was voted the girl most likely to become a nun. That may not be impressive to you, but it was quite an accomplishment at the Hebrew Academy.
It is too late to be studying Hebrew; it is more important to understand even the slang of today.
I learned enough Hebrew to stagger through a meaningless ceremony that I scarcely remember.
I speak fluent Hebrew and even dream in Hebrew when we visit there, once or twice a year.
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.
I don't have any religion. I'm Hebrew by nationality. My religion is just God. I have no religion, I just believe in the Most High.
We offer peace and neighborliness to all the neighboring states and their peoples, and invite them to cooperate with the independent Hebrew nation for the common good of all.
The English name Jesus traces its origin to the Hebrew word Yeshua. Yeshua is a shortening of Yehoshuah, which means "Yahweh saves."
Humans have "dominion" over animals. But that "dominion" (radah in Hebrew) does not mean despotism, rather we are set over creation to care for what God has made and to treasure God's own treasures.
I love a Hebrew National hot dog with an ice-cold Corona - no lime. If the phone rings, I won't answer until I'm done.
We do hereby command the Leaders of the Hebrew, Catholic and Protestant Churches to sanctify and have us crowned Emperor of the United States and Protector of Mexico.
I decline to accept Hebrew mythology as a guide to twentieth-century science.
All the various component parts of the Hebrew worship subserve this great purpose, the bringing of man into communication with God.
The number eighteen is symbolically meaningful because it is the numerical equivalent of the Hebrew word chai, which means life.
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.
In addition to English, at least one ancient language, probably Greek or Hebrew, and two modern languages would be required.
When I write in Hebrew, I don't look for sophistication in music; it's just pure emotion that comes out.
It is only in Hebrew that you feel the full meaning of it -- all the associations which a different word has.
The essence of the Hebrew Bible, transmitted by Christianity, is separation: between life and death, nature and God, good and evil, man and woman, and the holy and the profane.
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.
By the reduction of the Arabs on the one hand and Jewish immigration in the transition period on the other, we will ensure an absolute Hebrew majority in a parliamentary regime.
Bad English was the second language of Israel and bad Hebrew, of course, remained the national language.
I said it in Hebrew—I said it in Dutch— I said it in German and Greek; But I wholly forgot (and it vexes me much) That English is what you speak!
People think of black English as ungrammatical, but it bears the same relationship to standard English as contemporary Hebrew does to ancient Hebrew.
It is a fact that the classics of Yiddish literature are also the classics of the modern Hebrew literature.
I still live today with my mom sending me, you know, Hebrew Scriptures or phrases or celebrating.
The piety of the Hebrew prophets purges their grossness. The circumcision is an example of the power of poetry to raise the low and offensive.
Here I am, a Palestinian Arab who only knows how to write in Hebrew, stuck in central Illinois.
I might sing a gospel song in Arabic or do something in Hebrew. I want to mix it up and do it differently than one might imagine.
Man arose to high moral vision two thousand years before the Hebrew nation was born.
Rest in the Lord; wait patiently for Him. In Hebrew, "Be silent in God, and let Him mould thee." Keep still, and He will mould thee to the right shape.
Latin! The language of God! Or perhaps He speaks Hebrew? I suppose that's more likely and it will make things rather awkward in heaven, won't it? Will we all have to learn Hebrew?
We may not see the connection between the name Jesus and the phrase "save his people from their sins," but Joseph would have. He was familiar with the Hebrew language.
It is impossible for me to conceive of a character more utterly detestable than that of the Hebrew god.
I have trouble reading modern Hebrew. In the 1950s, I could read anything. I don't know how much experience you've had with contemporary Hebrew. It's quite difficult.
