Isaac Mayer Wise famous quotes

Never preach a sermon without a text from the Bible, a text containing the theme which you can elaborate. The text is the best proof in support of your argument. A sermon without a text is an argument without a proof.
-- Isaac Mayer Wise

#Support #Argument #Proof

This book, conceived in sorrow, composed in grief, and constructed at the brink of despair, contains my mind's best thoughts, and my soul's triumph over the powers of darkness.
-- Isaac Mayer Wise

#Grief #Book #Soul

The nations of antiquity rolled away in the current of ages, Israel alone remained one indestructible edifice of gray antiquity... preserved by an internal and marvelous power.
-- Isaac Mayer Wise

#Israel #Age #Currents

Had the Hebrews not been disturbed in their progress a thousand and more years ago, they would have solved all the great problems of civilization which are being solved now under all the difficulties imposed by the spirit of the Middle Ages.
-- Isaac Mayer Wise

#Years #Civilization #Progress

Russia contains one fourth of the inhabitants of all Europe, and one half of the entire number of Israelites.
-- Isaac Mayer Wise

#Russia #Europe #Numbers

Genius is inconsiderate, self-relying, and, like unconscious beauty, without any intention to please.
-- Isaac Mayer Wise

#Self #Genius #Intention

Freemasonry is a Jewish establishment, whose history, grades, official appointments, passwords, and explanations are Jewish from beginning to end
-- Isaac Mayer Wise

#Ends #Establishment #Grades

In Liberation, you stand alone. You stand alone because you need no supports of any kind. You need no supports because you have realized that the very notion of a separate you no longer exists; that there is nothing to support; that the whole ego experience was a flimsy illusion. So you stand alone but never, never lonely because everywhere you look, all you see is That, and You are That.

The Bush administration works closely with a network of rapid response digital brownshirts who work to pressure reporters and their editors for 'undermining support for our troops.'

Let your life be your argument.

Nothing is more certain than much of the force; as well as grace, of arguments or instructions depends their conciseness.

The argument holds no water at all, not even a thimbleful.

Argument should be polite as well as logical.

A defeated argument that refuses to be obliterated can remain very alive.

Si quelqu'un veut un mouton, c'est la preuve qu'il en existe un. (If somebody wants a sheep, that is a proof that one exists.)

The greatest proof that the Bible is inspired is that it has stood so much bad preaching.

The proof that you know something is that you are able to teach it