Judiasm Quotes

“Why must we fight for the right to live, over and over, each time the sun rises?”
― Leon Uris, Exodus

“If nothing else, Judaism had taught her to keep running, no matter who tried to hold her hostage. It had taught her to create her own opportunities, to turn rock into water and water to blood. It had taught her that such things were possible.”
― Chloe Benjamin

“When I look at him, I see that there are people who are born with something that I cannot find the words for, something that means that others respect them and hold them in the highest esteem. I don’t know what it is—is it posture, is it a head held high, a penetrating gaze, a way of walking? Or maybe some spirit hovering around him? An angel who keeps him company? He has only to enter any space, be it the most decrepit shed or the holiest chamber, and all eyes turn to him at once, pleasure and appreciation on everyone’s face, although he has not yet done or said a thing.

...But I also fear falling into blind love, exaggerated and unhealthy, like that Heshel, who, if he could, would lie down like a dog at his feet.”
― Olga Tokarczuk, The Books of Jacob

“Everything else was so kosher that this might have been Passover with my folks.”
― Thomm Quackenbush, The Road to Vent Haven

“God is dynamic, changing, and evolving alongside us. And we, human beings made in the divine image, are likewise not status creations, but rather are in our own process of always becoming.”
― Adina Allen, The Place of All Possibility: Cultivating Creativity Through Ancient Jewish Wisdom

“What if, instead of believing that there will be some perfect moment when the chaos and void of our lives will subside, we could recognize that every moment, brimming with chaos and void is, in fact, the perfect moment?”

“Like God, our challenge is to find the beauty of the materials on hand, the primordial chaotic stuff of our life - longings, questions, grief, confusion - and to create from here. The creative process beckons us to return to our depths, the chaos within.”
― Adina Allen, The Place of All Possibility: Cultivating Creativity Through Ancient Jewish Wisdom