Torah Quotations

Where there is Torah it sustains the world.

The giving of the Torah is a story of God seeking to provide humanity with the opportunity to make moral decisions.

It's no coincidence that the word 'holiday' suggests a holy day, or that the longest book in the Torah concerns the Sabbath. If you wish to advance in any sphere, the best way is to take a retreat.

One cannot accept Christ and still be part of the normative Jewish community; one cannot live by Torah and still be part of the Church.

If human language, with its logic, is the way God has given us to understand the world, then the Torah must be understood in that same language and with that same logic.

The observant Jew has his own sense of values. Torah Judaism is his blueprint for this life, his target for existence.

In the Einstein way, I can't believe in a universe that doesn't have some sort of prime mover, identical with all of created nature. I have a whole lot of a harder time with supposing the fine print of the Torah was a direct revelation.

In historical messianism, the reign of the Messiah is brought about by a Jewish ruler powerful enough to gather the Jewish exiles back to the land of Israel, reestablish a Torah government there, and rebuild the Temple in Jerusalem.

I don't do Jewish stuff because I don't want people to be left out. If I mention the Torah in Alabama, it's not going to go down that well. I used to do some Jewish jokes because when I started, I used to play lots of Jewish country clubs.

I have faith in the Torah. I am not afraid of truth.

I wouldn't even dare read the Torah, let alone attempt a witty observation on the Torah.

It specifically says in the Torah that you can eat shrimp and bacon in a Chinese restaurant.

Though my father was poor and had nothing, the Torah, the poetry of prophets, was his daily bread.

I was bar mitzvahed, which was hard. I feel it was the hardest thing I ever had to do; harder than making a movie. It was a lot of studying, you know. I wasn't a perfect Hebrew reader, and also, they say when you're reading your Torah portion, you're not supposed to memorize it. It turned out very tricky.

To Catholic, Orthodox, and some Protestant Christians, communion involves partaking of the physical real presence of God in the bread and wine of the Eucharist. By contrast, the Torah draws the Jew into engagement with God's infinite mind. Torah learning is the definitive Jewish mode of communion with God.

Faith is the summit of the Torah.

The G-d of History, the G-d of the Jewish people, called the world into being for one reason only and that was for the sake of the Jewish people and the Torah of Israel.

You've read the Torah, right? So you know the Torah defines marriage as being between one man and one woman.

Nowhere in the Bible, Koran, or Torah does it say, "If you curse, then you're going to hell." But everywhere it says that if you kill, you're going to wherever they send you, depending on the religion.

Judaism is absolutely incompatible with the abandonment of the Torah.