Quotes by Jewish Authors - Page 2

What will a man gain by winning the whole world, at the cost of his true self?
Jesus
What you don't see with your eyes don't invent with your tongue.
Jewish Proverb
If I am not for myself who will be?
Pirke Avot
The best minister is the human heart the best teacher is time the best book is the world the best friend is God.
Jewish saying
Do unto others as you would have others do unto you
Jesus Christ
If I am not for myself who is for me? And if I am only for myself what am I? And if not now when?
Hillel
For the unlearned old age is winter for the learned it is the season of the harvest.
Hasidic saying
Every human being should regard himself as if he were exactly balanced between innocence and guilt. Simultaneously he should regard the world as being in the same case. It follows then that if he performs one good deed, he has weighted the scales in favour of both himself and of the whole world, and thus brought about salvation both for himself and for all the inhabitants of the world.
Maimonides
If not you, then who? If not now, when?
Hillel first- century Jewish scholar
Your purpose...should always be to know...the whole that was intended to be known.
Maimonides
Pride is the mask of one's own faults.
Jewish Proverb
God hardening Pharaoh’s heart causes the world to fear God and not think they can sin to the point at which they want to repent.
Rabbi Hillel
No one has greater love than this, to lay down one’s life for one’s friends (John 15:13)
John the Evangelist
Therefore you too have grief now; but I will see you again, and your heart will rejoice, and no one will take your joy away from you.
Jesus Christ
God could not be everywhere and therefore he made mothers.
Jewish Proverb
With money in your pocket you are wise and you are handsome and you sing well too.
Jewish Proverb
Whatsoever thou wouldst that men should not do to thee do not do that to them.
Hillel Ha-Babli
For the elements have the property of moving back to their place in a straight line, but they have no properties which would cause them to remain where they are, or to move other-wise than in a straight line, These rectilinear motions of these four elements when returning to their original place are are of two kinds, either centrifugal,vziz.>the motion of the air and the fire; or centripedal,viz.> the motion of the earth, and the water; and when the elements have reached their original place, they remain at rest.
Maimonides
God dwells wherever man lets Him in.
Jewish saying
If I am not for myself, then who will be for me? But when I am for myself, then what am I?
Hillel