The Jewish Wisdom Database

God seeks out the persecuted.

Redeem us speedily for the sake of Your name!

Redemption only comes to our nation bit by bit.

Israel will not be redeemed until they are united all into a single grouping.

The Redemption to come will be as great a marvel as Creation.

Those who wish it will be redeemed.

Say not: 'Tomorrow we shall be redeemed', lest you may miss the moment now.

It cannot be true religion if it loves lucre (money).

The State binds and compels, religion teaches and persuades; the State gives laws, religion gives commandments.

What lover of truth can pride himself that he found his faith free of harmful man-made rules.

Who professes to reform religion is in my eyes as if he sought to cool fire.

A religion should be judged by its preachings and its best preachers, not by the many or few hypocrites who profess it.

There may be men whose faith preceded their religion, that is, they come to religion from faith. With others religion was first, so that their faith is a dictate of it.

No man is rewarded because God owes it to him, but God grants reward out of His grace.

Riches profit naught in the day of wrath.

The righteous shall flourish like a palm-tree: he shall grow like a cedar in Lebanon.

The righteous is rescued from trouble; the wicked falls into it instead.

The root of the righteous will never be shaken.

A righteous man may fall seven times yet will rise again.

In my life of vanity I have seen everything: the righteous man perishing in righteousness, and the wicked man living long in his evil-doing.

For there is not a righteous man upon the earth, that does good and sins not.

Even in the time of His anger, God remembers the righteous.

The righteous are greater in death than in life.

This world would have been created even for one righteous man.

The Lord saw that the righteous are few and so dispersed them through all the generations.