Quotes of: Hebrew Keyword

Part of our skittishness about Christian perfection is linguistic confusion. The English word "perfect" has absorbed the Greek notion of "teleos". When the Greeks looked at a building's blueprint, they pictured the building whole and complete. They e...

The Godbearing Life: The Art of Soul Tending for Youth Ministry

I do not dye my hair black so as to be young again and sin again but because people dye their clothes black in mourning, so I have dyed my hair black, mourning for my old age. -

Music of a Distant Drum: Classical Arabic, Persian, Turkish & Hebrew Poems

One grey hair appeared on my head I plucked it out with my hand. It answered me: "You have prevailed against me alone - What will you do when my army comes after me?" -

Music of a Distant Drum: Classical Arabic, Persian, Turkish & Hebrew Poems

Your life is a sum of counted breaths. With each breath that passes a part of life is lost. That which gives life brings death every moment nearer, and your caravan is led by one who will not jest with you. -

Music of a Distant Drum: Classical Arabic, Persian, Turkish & Hebrew Poems

The author of Hebrews says what kept him (Jesus) going was "the joy set before him" (Hebrews 12:2). The joy of accomplishing what had been lovingly planned from the beginning...the joy of pleasing his Father. And you. Your face was before him. He was...

Marcia Lebhar

I might do something in Arabic. I might do something in Hebrew.

Stevie Wonder

However, the word madda in modern Hebrew specifically means science.

Norman Lamm

I'm a Persian Jew, and we don't speak Hebrew.

Zubin Mehta

I do not speak Hebrew, but I understand that it has no word for 'history.' The closest word for it is memory.

David Miliband

Nowhere in the Hebrew Scriptures does it say that God is omnipotent.

Tony Campolo

Most Arab Israelis speak Hebrew, but not the other way around. It's about time that changed.

Zubin Mehta

Many parents lack a biblical view of discipline. They tend to think of discipline as revenge - getting even with the children for what they did. Hebrews 12 makes it clear that discipline is not punitive, but corrective. Hebrews 12 calls discipline a ...

Shepherding a Child's Heart

God presents the Sabbath rest as a shelter we can enter. (Hebrews 4:1-11)

Charles R. Swindoll

Hebrew as a contemporary language, especially for poetry, is no longer the language of the Bible; but neither is it not the language of the Bible.

Cynthia Ozick

When I write in Hebrew, I don't look for sophistication in music; it's just pure emotion that comes out.

Yael Naim

The president of the United States and his secretary of state were made honorary Hebrews.

Julius Streicher

I just went to Hebrew school, had a bar mitzvah. No crazy weird Jewish cult.

Hayden Schlossberg

It is too late to be studying Hebrew; it is more important to understand even the slang of today.

Henry David Thoreau

[first lines] [a Hebrew prayer is chanted, followed by a flashback to 1940s Poland] Krakow registrar: Name?

Schindler's List

Unfeeling thing that I was, the sensibilities of the maternal heart were Greek and Hebrew to me.

Villette

My father was a great sympathizer of Ahad Ha'am. Every Friday night we would read Hebrew together, and often the reading was Ahad Ha'am's essays.

Noam Chomsky