Wolpe Quotes & Sayings

Clear, crisp, and compelling ... Mitzvah Girls is a thoughtful look at the world of Jewish girls who grow up in 21st-century America, but don't really. — David Wolpe

Among the innumerable mortifications which waylay human arrogance on every side may well be reckoned our ignorance of the most common objects and effects, a defect of which we become more sensible by every attempt to supply it. Vulgar and inactive minds confound familiarity with knowledge and conceive themselves informed of the whole nature of things when they are shown their form or told their use; but the speculatist, who is not content with superficial views, harasses himself with fruitless curiosity, and still, as he inquires more, perceives only that he knows less. — Samuel Johnson

You are too smart and too knowledgeable to believe much of the nonsense you have been espousing on global warming and many other issues. — Howard Wolpe

The only whole heart is a broken one because it lets the light in. — David J. Wolpe

There is a marvelous story of a man who once stood before God, his heart breaking from the pain and injustice in the world. "Dear God." he cried out, "look at all the suffering, the anguish and distress in your world. Why don't you send help?" God responded,"I did send help. I sent you." When we tell our children that story, we must tell them that each one of them was sent to help repair the broken world-and that it is not the task of an instant or of a year, but of a lifetime. — David Wolpe

It doesn't have to be somber to be sacred. — David Wolpe

Making someone die, he was suddenly sure, was different from killing them. He could never kill anyone. But he could make someone die. — John Saul

The NSF study projected a shortfall of 675,000 scientists and engineers without considering the future demand for such individuals in the marketplace. It simply observed a decline in the number of 22-year-olds and projected that this demographic trend would result in a huge shortfall. This could be termed the supply-side theory of labor market analysis. But making labor market projections without considering the demand side of the equation doesn't pass the laugh test with experts in the field. — Howard Wolpe

You have to guard the integrity of your soul and what you believe and have a certain amount of faith not only the country but in God that this is part of the mission. — David Wolpe

Prayer is less about changing the world than it is about changing ourselves. — David Wolpe

Dr. R scratches out a note on his pad.
"Losing you both was only the practice pain, wasn't it? For my mum and dad ... "
He puts his finger on his lips, his elbow at his chest, not racked with cancer. "Yes."
"And when that happens, this will seem like nothing."
He nods.
"When it happens," he asks me, "what will get you through?"
"Friends who love me."
"And if your friends weren't there?"
"Music through headphones."
"And if the music stopped?"
"A sermon by Rabbi Wolpe."
"If there was no religion?"
"The mountains and the sky."
"If you leave California?"
"Numbered streets to keep me walking."
"If New York falls into the ocean?"
Your voice in my head. — Emma Forrest

Still when it comes to finding fault we are fonder of windows than of mirrors. — David Wolpe

when we women get our rights, you men will have to look alive in order to keep yours. — Jean Webster

The government would have preferred not to take a stand, but the constant presence of the Israeli-Arab conflict on our television screens made it an issue that could no longer be avoided. — Jean-Marie Le Pen

I see the role of a rabbi or a pastor in general sort of like the role of a quarterback who throws the ball a little bit ahead of the receiver - that is you want to make people run just a bit to catch up to the message that you offer. — David Wolpe

There's as much risk in doing nothing as in doing something" - Trammell Crow — Clyde Wolpe

There is nothing so necessary for men as dancing. — Moliere

May your wonder always exceed your certainty. — David Wolpe

Shlomo Carlebach used to say, if he meets a student who says he is a Protestant, he knows he is a Protestant; if he meets a student who says he is a Catholic, he knows he is a Catholic. If he meets a student who says he is a human being, he knows he is a Jew. — David Wolpe

Faith is not knowledge of what the mystery of the universe is, but the conviction that there is a mystery, and that it is greater than us. — David Wolpe

Prayer is not a monologue. It speaks to God and to the community. In the last analysis, religion is not what goes on inside a soul. It is what goes on in the world, between people, between us and God. To trap faith in a monologue, and pretend that it resides solely inside the self, undermines the true interchange of all belief. — David Wolpe

God can desire to enter into a relationship with us; he can be drawn to some aspect of our identity. — Meir Soloveichik

If you do the same thing every day at the same time for the same length of time, you'll save yourself from many a sink. Routine is a condition of survival. — Flannery O'Connor

The measure of human character is our reaction to dark times. No one can sidestep darkness. It is the throne upon which light sits. If a soul has not known sadness and struggle, there is no chance of overcoming, no cherishing the dawn. — David Wolpe

One of the things that makes God different from people is that God is always available to listen. — David Wolpe

Part of the reason that America is born in the world is to demonstrate an openness and a goodness and a compassion that is all too absent. It's part of the reason that I feel every day so blessed that I and so many Jews have found this wonderful haven, and I hope that we can spread that message and that people who come here will find it as inspiring as I think all of us do. — David Wolpe

Making sense of everything is not an obligation or even a possibility. Acceptance of mystery is an act not of resignation but humility. - David Wolpe — Lois Tverberg