To be a Jew, essentially and not just accidentally, is to regard the Jewish people as one's sole primal community. Election by the unique God requires total and unconditional loyalty to one people.
The common moral praxis of Jews and Christians is most definitely theologically informed by the doctrine we share in common: The human person, male and female, is created in the image of God.
Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught.
I showed that privacy was an implicit right in Jewish law, probably going back to the second or third century, when it was elaborated on in a legal way.
I'm thinking there should be a dating site called "Tap That" - Jonathan "Jack" McVoy
The significant thing about Edwards is the way he enters into the tradition, infuses it with his personality and makes it live. The vitality of his thought gives to its product the value of unique creation. Two qualities in him especially contribute ...
[A]s it is impossible that any man endowed with rational faculties, and being in a state of freedom, should willingly agree, without some motive of love or friendship, absolutely to sacrifice his own interest to that of another; it becomes necessary ...
God is the highest good of the reasonable creature. The enjoyment of him is our proper; and is the only happiness with which our souls can be satisfied. To go to heaven, fully to enjoy God, is infinitely better than the most pleasant accommodations h...
[Jonathan accidentally had a cut while shaving] Jonathan Harker: I didn't hear you coming in. Dracula: Take care how you cut yourself. It is more dangerous than you think. [Dracula breaks the mirror] Dracula: A foul bauble of man's vanity. Perhaps yo...
I'm often in the company of adults, so it's nice to meet girls my age or younger.
I mean, there is amazing amount of oil and gas and other resources out beneath the sea. It's staggering.
The only law is one which leads to freedom
Like everything else, Fletcher. Practice.
¿No es increible todo lo que puede tener dentro un lápiz?
The theological contacts between Jews and Christians during much of the premodern period are best characterized as disputations. Even when not engaged in face-to-face argumentation, Jews and Christians spoke about each other in essentially disputatio...
You must not lean on a tree on Sabbath, if the tree might be dependent on you for support.
The first step to stringing the boss up from a lamppost is saying the boss is a moron.
At this point, American workers are pretty respectful of the bosses they loathe.
From space this Earth is incandescent with abominations - the gods write their signature in our entrails
You cannot add more minutes to the day, but you can utilize each one to the fullest.
The philosophic spirit of inquiry may be traced to brute curiosity, and that to the habit of examining all things in search of food.
