Leo Baeck famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

A minority is always compelled to think. That is the blessing of being in the minority.
-- Leo Baeck

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Through faith man experiences the meaning of the world through action he is to give to it meaning.
-- Leo Baeck

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The mark of a mature man is the ability to give love and receive it joyously and without guilt.
-- Leo Baeck

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Faith is the capacity of the soul to perceive the abiding, the invisible in the visible.
-- Leo Baeck

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Service of God consists in what we do to our neighbor.
-- Leo Baeck

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In Judaism social action is religiousness, and religiousness implies social action.
-- Leo Baeck

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Honesty is the precondition for genuine scientific and scholarly work.
-- Leo Baeck

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We fail to see the purifying and refining effect wrought by the flames of adversity. These flames are not meant to consume but only to purify us. Disguised as adversity, blessings are showered upon us.
Muslims are not bloodthirsty people. Islam is a religion of peace that forbids the killing of the innocent. Islam also accepts the Prophets, whether those prophets are Mohammed, God's peace and blessing be upon Him, or Moses or the other prophets of the Books.
A birthday is just another day where you go to work and people give you love. Age is just a state of mind, and you are as old as you think you are. You have to count your blessings and be happy.
Before one can walk as Christ walked, and talk as He talked, he must first begin to think as Christ thought.
Well," said Pooh, "what I like best," and then he had to stop and think. Because although Eating Honey was a very good thing to do, there was a moment just before you began to eat it which was better than when you were, but he didn't know what it was called.
My goal has been to encourage jointness, to push people to think of affiliations rather than to operate as solo entrepreneurs.
Some of my academic friends think Ive fallen from a very special grace.
I voted for the Defense of Marriage Act but I do not believe we should institutionalize a form of discrimination against any minority by amending the Constitution.
Counterfeit tolerance includes the opportunism of one who seeks, or accepts, tolerance for himself, as a minority, but who would deny it to others if ever he should be in a position to grant it.
A minority group has 'arrived' only when it has the right to produce some fools and scoundrels without the entire group paying for it.

Leo Baeck famous quotes

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