“God is identical with His attributes, so that it may be said that He is the knowledge, the knower, and the known.”

The whole object of the Prophets and the Sages was to declare that a limit is set to human reason where it must halt.

The same is the case with those opinions of man to which he has been accustomed from his youth; he likes them, defends them, and shuns the opposite views.

In finances, be strict with yourself, generous with others.

If a person studies too much and exhausts his reflective powers, he will be confused, and will not be able to apprehend even that which had been within the power of his apprehension. For the powers of the body are all alike in this respect.

Do not consider it proof just because it is written in books, for a liar who will deceive with his tongue will not hesitate to do the same with his pen.

The more necessary a thing is for living beings, the more easily it is found and the cheaper it is; the less necessary it is, the rarer and dearer it is.

Do not imagine that these most difficult problems can be thoroughly understood by any one of us.

Lose with truth and right rather than gain with falsehood and wrong.

The key to the understanding and to the full comprehension of all that the Prophets have said is found in the knowledge of the figures, their general ideas, and the meaning of each word they contain.

There is no difference between the worry of a human mother and an animal mother for their offspring. A mother’s love does not derive from the intellect but from the emotions, in animals just as in humans.

Commune with your own heart upon your bed, and be still.

Teach thy tongue to say ‘I do not know,’ and thou shalt progress.

Man’s obsession to add to his wealth and honor is the chief source of his misery.

I will destroy my enemies by converting them to friends.

It is man’s duty to love and to fear God, even without hope of reward or fear of punishment.

The great sickness and the grievous evil consist in this: that all the things that man finds written in books, he presumes to think of as true-and all the more so if the books are old.

Our eyes are at fault, that is all. God is in the manger, wealth in poverty, light in darkness, succor in abandonment.

It is convenient that there be gods, and, as it is convenient, let us believe there are.

The will of God, to which the law gives expression, is that men should defeat their enemies by loving them.

Jesus didn’t die on the cross to bless our life, He did it to change our life.

Our flag is red, white and blue, but our nation is a rainbow – red, yellow, brown, black and white -and we’re all precious in God’s sight.

We are torn out of our own existence and set down in the midst of the holy history of God on earth. There God dealt with us, and there he still deals with us, our needs and our sins, in judgment and grace.

Not hero worship, but intimacy with Christ.

God is not a God of the emotions but the God of truth.