Augstein Jakob Quotes & Sayings

The big question is whether you are going to be able to say a hearty yes to your adventure — Joseph Campbell

The biblical passage which says of Abraham and the three visiting angels: "And He stood over them under the tree and they did eat" is interpreted by Rabbi Zusya to the effect that man stands above the angels, because he knows something unknown to them, namely, that eating may be hallowed by the eater's intention ... Any natural act, if hallowed, leads to God, and nature needs man for what no angel can perform on it, namely, its hallowing. — Martin Buber

People today are dying for something to live for. — J.S.B. Morse

To me, the failure of liberalism - the tradition I come from - was not recognizing there has to be justice across the generations. — Richard Lamm

The simple fact is that only if I love Jesus more than my wife will I be able to serve her needs ahead of my own. — Timothy Keller

But I've been here in Wolverhampton for two days now and that's felt pretty eternal (though I can reveal that the Pizza Hut — David Nicholls

Sometimes I just say that to read one thing more than twice is just a losing of time, but some stuff are used a lot of times, are read a lot of times until the meaning is get... — Deyth Banger

At the time of Caliph Omar's invasion of Egypt, the Arab officer on duty in the destruction of the library of Alexandria used two stamps with which he marked the books. One said: 'Does not agree with the Koran - heretic, must be burned'. The other said: 'Agrees with the Koran - superfluous, must be burned'. — Nils Kjaer