Moses Quotes

I started playing ball when I was 13 and a half. Before that, I just wanted to play football and baseball but I kept growing so I figured it was time for basketball.

There are so many people afraid of a task. They get so overwhelmed by the obstacles in front of them that they shy away from reaching beyond a position of safety.

Mathematics is persistent intellectual honesty.

Sorrow shatters my heart; And men distress it with blame, Because it follows love.

Lust should be stifled, for it cannot lead to truth.

And why does this same God tell me how to raise my children when he had to drown his?

I overcame size with mechanics.

I always got my work done before playing.

Social ills: teenage pregnancy, gangs, children with behavioral problems. All these things can be alleviated if kids got more physical activity for starters.

My father was an all-American football player.

This book fills a much-needed gap.

We hail science as man's truest friend and noblest helper.

In solitude all great things are born.

Life is the offspring of death.

I am, therefore there is a God.

In the wake of the current injustice we all need to remember to breathe, stay strong and know that God has a bigger plan. Through whatever Hold Ya Head.

In religion as in parenthood, uncritical loyalty to our ancestors may implicate us in an injustice against our descendants: imprisoning them in the errors of our ancestors.

There's one thing worse than a failed old religion: a naïve and arrogant new one.

And life is what we make it.Always has been, always will be.

for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return

I never knew what it meant being a slave until I quitted religion

Come on people! Somebody disagree with me! How can we learn anything if no one will disagree?" Rabbi Stern

Thank you for sending me a copy of your book. I'll waste no time reading it.

Neither any one in this world is born as our friend nor born as our enemy.Our behavior, attitude & approach makes them become either one.

If I didn't start painting, I would have raised chickens.

-- So this is the measure of your God's Mercy.-- No. This is the measure of Pharaoh's soul.

Who owned no property and never desired to since the earth was no man's but all men's, as light and air and weather were.

Theology is a superstition—Humanity a religion.

I wondered how he'd learned to push the words away, to drown them, to not feel them pounding against his head and his heart, begging to be spoken.

...goals not bathed in prayer or brought in humility before the Lord turn out to be downright useless. They don't go anywhere. They don't accomplish anything.

But she wasn’t the only one who was suffering, and sometimes there is comfort in the knowledge that you don’t suffer alone, sad as that is.

He was right that I was afraid. But I didn’t think I was afraid of the truth. I was afraid of believing something that would destroy me if it turned out to be a lie.

Don't try to be different, that's not you, but just try to be yourself & that will make all the difference.

Not one of the learned gentlemen who pretend that the Mosaic laws are filled with justice and intelligence, would live, for a moment, in any country where such laws were in force.

The mindset of a believer every time he opens the Bible must be the conviction that whatever the Bible says is true. We cannot trust our reason to determine what is true or false, right or wrong.

There are laws. There are rules. And when you break them, there are consequences. Laws of nature and laws of life. Laws of love and laws of death.

And when a man that old takes up money-hunting, it's like when he takes up gambling or whisky or women. He aint going to have time to quit.

Jewish history is never simply about the Jews, but always about their relationship with the rest of society.

People who are afraid of the truth never find it.

Have no fear of change as such and on the other hand no liking for it merely for its own sake.

Love blinds us to faults hatred to virtues.

Wisdom is harder to do than it is to know.

Government is the only institution that can take a valuable commodity like paper and make it worthless by applying ink.

Painting's not important. The important thing is keeping busy.

If I didn't start painting I would have raised chickens.

It is a secret worth knowing that lawyers rarely go to law.

I look back on my life like a good day's work it is done and I am satisfied with it.

Time is a part of eternity and of the same piece with it.

Life is what we make it always has been always will be.

I paint from the top down. First the sky then the mountains then the hills then the houses then the cattle and then the people.