To me, God is the basic Reality of the universe. God is what is. That's how Moses wrote that God introduced Himself, isn't it? "I am that I am. " God is. Whatever is, that is God.
Jews read the books of Moses not just as history but as divine command. The question to which they are an answer is not, 'What happened?' but rather, 'How then shall I live?' And it's only with the exodus that the life of the commands really begins.
I like the character of Moses. He is the first disunionist we read of in the Jewish Scriptures.
Accumulate, accumulate! This is Moses and the Prophets!
Moses and the crooked snake. . . that turned into a stuck, that was actually a disintegrator pistol.
Holy Moses on a pogo stick!!
With the history of Moses no book in the world, in point of antiquity, can contend.
Before his death, Rabbi Zusya said "In the coming world, they will not ask me: 'Why were you not Moses?' They will ask me: 'Why were you not Zusya?
Moses was a forgotten man in the wilderness, But God had Moses right where he wanted him and met him at a burning bush.
I don't remember Moses writing, 'Thou shalt not kill. . unless you think you have a good reason.
I like to read about Moses best, in th' Old Testament. He carried a hard business well through, and died when other folks were going to reap the fruits; a man must have courage to look after his life so, and think what'll come f it after he's dead and gone.
No man can be a sound lawyer in this land who is not well read in the ethics of Moses and the virtues of Jesus.
Jesus and Lincoln, Moses and Jefferson can seem so long gone, so unbelievable, so dead.
there comes a time in every rabbi's life when he thinks he's Moses.
My success? Being born the son of Moses Annenberg.
And here's Moses Kiptanui - the 19 year old Kenyan, who turned 20 a few weeks ago.
The faithful are ever sustained by the presence of the Supreme Concourse. In the Supreme Concourse are Jesus, and Moses, and Elijah, and Bahá’u’lláh, and other supreme Souls: there, also, are the martyrs.
Abba Moses asked Abba Sylvanus, Can a person lay a new foundation every day? The old man replied, If you work hard, you can lay a new foundation every moment. Abba Pimen said, To throw yourself before God, not to measure your progress, to leave behind all self-will; these are the instruments for the work of the soul. The desire to rule is the mother of heresies.
Moses made mistakes, Abraham made mistakes, David made mistakes, Elijah made mistakes.
I became one of [Moses Mendelssohn] defenders. But then I heard the words "Biblical criticism" again. And, of course, afterward, I studied it more closely.