It is one of the ironies of religious history that many mortals err in their understanding of the nature of God and end up rejecting not the real God but their own erroneous and stereotypical image of God. Frequently this is because they have thought of God solely in terms of thunderings at Sinai without pondering substance....
Quotes about sinai (15 Quotes)
Mozart has the classic purity of light and the blue ocean Beethoven the romantic grandeur which belongs to the storms of air and sea, and while the soul of Mozart seems to dwell on the ethereal peaks of Olympus, that of Beethoven climbs shuddering the storm-beaten sides of a Sinai. Blessed be they both Each represents a moment of the ideal life, each does us good. Our love is due to both.
First, it is not unimportant that the legislative texts of the Old Testament are placed in the mouth of Moses and within the narrative framework of the sojourn at Sinai.
That kind of MO method of operation has not been typical to Egypt before but, to do that, you have to have some cooperation of locals, the tribesmen in Sinai, and that's the main assumption we're working on right now,
We have people here who trained to become suicide bombers in Sinai, and that's something that we should not take lightly, ... We need to see why this happened and how this happened. Is it just people frustrated, or are they people with connections
For me chemistry represented an indefinite cloud of future potentialities which enveloped my life to come in black volutes torn by fiery flashes, like those which had hidden Mount Sinai. Like Moses, from that cloud I expected my law, the principle of order in me, around me, and in the world. I would watch the buds swell in spring, the mica glint in the granite, my own hands, and I would say to myself ''I will understand this, too, I will understand everything.''
I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mount Sinai.
Man has made 32 million laws since the Commandments were handed down to Moses on Mount Sinai... but he has never improved on God's law.
The decision-making process regarding the partial concession over the demilitarization of Sinai raises questions about the way decisions on national security in Israel are made,
It is said that from Mount Sinai God gave, amid thunderings and lightnings, ten commandments for the guidance of mankind and yet among them is not found Thou shalt believe The Bible
We meet in Sinai at a moment of promise for the cause of peace in the Middle East.
A hypocritical Boston tycoon once told Mark Twain, 'Before I die I mean to make a pilgrimage to the top of Mount Sinai in the Holy Land and read the Ten Commandments aloud.' 'Why don't you stay right home in Boston,' suggested Twain, 'and keep them.
I think Egyptian authorities have not yet gotten the measure of the Sinai problem.
I swear by the fig and the olive, And mount Sinai, And this city made secure, Certainly We created man in the best make.
There are no quick solutions. This is not armored warfare in the Sinai, where you encircle divisions of the other side and end it in six days. But with determination and perseverance, Israel will win this struggle.