Robert Gordis famous quotes

... what counts in life usually cannot be counted.
-- Robert Gordis

#Life

Institutions are essential in order to preserve the achievement of the past, but the original creative impulse in every age comes from the amateur, the rebel, the breaker of idols.
-- Robert Gordis

#Creativity #Past #Order

... on every important issue life transcends logic and it is folly to depend on reason alone.
-- Robert Gordis

#Life #Issues #Important

Those humble but indomitable workers, to whom later generations referred by the collective name of Baale Masorah, Masters of Tradition, performed in obscurity their Herculean task of guarding the Biblical Text against loss or variation.
-- Robert Gordis

#Humble #Loss #Biblical

Pride is a deeply rooted ailment of the soul. The penalty is misery; the remedy lies in the sincere, life-long cultivation of humility, which means true self-evaluation and a proper perspective toward past, present and future.
-- Robert Gordis

#Lying #Mean #Humility

Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them.

The things that make me different are the things that make me.

Sometimes, if you stand on the bottom rail of a bridge and lean over to watch the river slipping slowly away beneath you, you will suddenly know everything there is to be known.

Because of a friend, life is a little stronger, fuller, more gracious thing for the friend's existence, whether he be near or far. If the friend is close at hand, that is best; but if he is far away he still is there to think of, to wonder about, to hear from, to write to, to share life and experience with, to serve, to honor, to admire, to love.

Here dead lie we because we did not choose to live and shame the land from which we sprung. Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose; but young men think it is, and we were young.

The concept of two people living together for 25 years without a serious dispute suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.

If nobody said anything unless he knew what he was talking about, a ghastly hush would descend upon the earth.

Life is just a chance to grow a soul.

You have your identity when you find out, not what you can keep your mind ON, but what you can't keep your mind OFF.

Gratitude is something of which none of us can give too much. For on the smiles, the thanks we give, our little gestures of appreciation, our neighbors build their philosophy of life.