Shearith Israel Quotes & Sayings

I am humbled and deeply honored to have been asked to serve the congregants of Shearith Israel, a congregation with an incomparable history, where some of America's most distinguished rabbis have pastored and preached. — Meir Soloveichik

Throughout its history, the members of Shearith Israel have observed Thanksgiving by reciting in synagogue the same psalms of praise and gratitude sung by Jews all over the world on festive days like Hanukkah. — Meir Soloveichik

As with the Pilgrims at Plymouth Rock, the origins of Shearith Israel trace back to a small group of religious freedom-seekers and a treacherous ocean passage to the New World. — Meir Soloveichik

I'm crazy about Shakespeare, who was a notorious word inventor. And my wife is an English teacher, and she's hilarious. — Rob Delaney

We are uneasy with an affectionate man, for we are positive he wants something of us, particularly our love. — Edward Dahlberg

Affliction of itself does not sanctify any body, but the reverse. I believe in sanctified afflictions, but not in sanctifying afflictions. — Charles Spurgeon

Systems run the business and people run the systems. — Michael Gerber

The singer should sing well even if it is merely to himself, rather than dance badly for the whole world. — Chinua Achebe

There is nothing that does not get easier through cultivation. The buddhas of the past started out as ordinary beings. They were not buddhas in the beginning. The path to buddhahood is traversed only through gradually developing more and more courage and DETERMINATION -then it is attained. — Dalai Lama

The way he looked at her, so possessively and territorially, had everything inside of Sonya becoming alert. — Jenika Snow

And he isn't crying for her, not for his grandma, he's crying for himself: that he: too, is going to die one day. And before that his friends wil die, and the friends of his friends, and, as time passes, the children of his friends, and, if his fate is truly bitter, his own children. (58) — Nicole Krauss

Go ahead, jump. He never loved you, so why go on living? — Mrs. Danvers