The Law is never weary of again and again repeating its injunction of local unity of worship.

The stone which Jacob consecrated at Bethel the generation of the living continues to anoint, paying the tithes which of old he vowed to the house of God there.

All writers of the Chaldaean period associate monotheism in the closest way with unity of worship.

The Priestly Code preponderates over the rest of the legislation in force, as well as in bulk; in all matters of primary importance it is the normal and final authority.

It is only in the case of the Priestly Code that opinions differ widely; for it tries hard to imitate the costume of the Mosaic period, and, with whatever success, to disguise its own.

For the earliest period of the history of Israel, all that precedes the building of the temple, not a trace can be found of any sanctuary of exclusive legitimacy.

To my thinking, this: - that the Priestly Code rests upon the result which is only the aim of Deuteronomy.

And finally, it was Deuteronomy that brought about the historical result of Josiah's reformation.

A judgment pronounced in accordance with the facts can therefore assign to it an historical place only within that movement of reformation which was brought to a victorious issue by King Josiah.

What is heroic is not making life any harder that it has to be.

I had done all that I could, and no Man is well pleased to have his all neglected, be it ever so little.

The best way to deal with your past is not to avoid thinking about it or trying to forget it, but to accept it happened, forgive yourself and move on.

Who can know when his world is going to change? Who can tell before it happens, that every priorexperience, all the years, were a preparation for . . . nothing.

Women of vanquished races are usually very prone to wed with the men who have slaughtered their kindred in battle.

You know why we're stuck with the myth that only black people have soul? Because white people don't let themselves feel things.

It took me a long time to realize that being a girl is so much more powerful than being a guy, but I really saw myself as boy for a long while.

He (Job) did not seek the Giver because of His gifts; when all gifts were removed he still sought the Giver.

The only way to get rid of tempation is to yeild to it.

The third absolute right, inherent in every Englishman, is that of . . . the sacred and inviolable rights of private property.