Walking in the Dust of Rabbi Jesus Quotes

“Making sense of everything is not an obligation or even a possibility. Acceptance of mystery is an act not of resignation but humility. — David Wolpe”
― Lois Tverberg, Walking in the Dust of Rabbi Jesus: How the Jewish Words of Jesus Can Change Your Life

“The Hebrew tongue, above other languages, is very plain, but withal it is majestic and glorious: it contains much in few and simple words, and therein surpasses all other languages. — Martin Luther”
― Lois Tverberg, Walking in the Dust of Rabbi Jesus: How the Jewish Words of Jesus Can Change Your Life

“Since we are small and finite, we honor God more by trying to love as he loves than by trying to know all that he knows.”
― Lois Tverberg, Walking in the Dust of Rabbi Jesus: How the Jewish Words of Jesus Can Change Your Life

“God bears with corrupt humanity because the alternative is the death of every sinner on earth. The fact that a good God does not destroy evil is not because he’s impotent; it’s because he’s merciful.16”
― Lois Tverberg, Walking in the Dust of Rabbi Jesus: How the Jewish Words of Jesus Can Change Your Life

“both mercy and justice are needed in order for God to reign over creation while allowing it to survive.”
― Lois Tverberg, Walking in the Dust of Rabbi Jesus: How the Jewish Words of Jesus Can Change Your Life

“A man prone to suspect evil is mostly looking in his neighbor for what he sees in himself. — Baal Shem Tov”
― Lois Tverberg, Walking in the Dust of Rabbi Jesus: How the Jewish Words of Jesus Can Change Your Life

“It takes your enemy and your friend, working together, to hurt you to the heart: the one to slander you, and the other to get the news to you.”
― Lois Tverberg, Walking in the Dust of Rabbi Jesus: How the Jewish Words of Jesus Can Change Your Life

“In everyone there is something of his fellow man…. Hence, “love your neighbor” — for he is really you yourself. — Rabbi Moses Cordovero1”
― Lois Tverberg, Walking in the Dust of Rabbi Jesus: How the Jewish Words of Jesus Can Change Your Life

“I did not go to the rabbi to learn interpretations of the Torah from him but to note his way of tying his shoelaces and taking off his shoes…. In his actions, in his speech, in his bearing, and his faithfulness to the Lord, man must make the Torah manifest. — Aryeh Leib Sarahs”
― Lois Tverberg, Walking in the Dust of Rabbi Jesus: How the Jewish Words of Jesus Can Change Your Life

“Perhaps God would rather hear us voice angry doubts that show concern for others’ pain than to knit ourselves a comfortable theology that shows no love.”
― Lois Tverberg, Walking in the Dust of Rabbi Jesus: How the Jewish Words of Jesus Can Change Your Life

“One rabbi I met put it this way: “Speculating about what God has not revealed is like pressing on your eyelids with your fingers. The light that you think you see comes only from your own imagination.”
― Lois Tverberg, Walking in the Dust of Rabbi Jesus: How the Jewish Words of Jesus Can Change Your Life

“Reverence, love, prayer, faith, go beyond the acts of shallow reasoning. We must therefore not judge religion exclusively from the viewpoint of reason. Religion is not within but beyond the limits of mere reason…. [However] the employment of reason is indispensable to the understanding and worship of God, and religion withers without it…. Without reason faith becomes blind. Without reason we would not know how to apply the insights of faith to the concrete issues of living. The worship of reason is arrogance and betrays a lack of intelligence. The rejection of reason is cowardice and betrays a lack of faith.”
― Lois Tverberg, Walking in the Dust of Rabbi Jesus: How the Jewish Words of Jesus Can Change Your Life

“Bible translators share the same observation. They often struggle to find words for mental activities we see as all-important, but simply don’t exist in indigenous languages where thought is tied to its expected outcome.”
― Lois Tverberg, Walking in the Dust of Rabbi Jesus: How the Jewish Words of Jesus Can Change Your Life

“The question, “Don’t you hear His Word?” in Candoshi means “Don’t you believe-obey His Word?” In their way of thinking, if you “hear” you believe what you hear, and if you believe, you obey. These are not separate ideas as in English”
― Lois Tverberg, Walking in the Dust of Rabbi Jesus: How the Jewish Words of Jesus Can Change Your Life

“Could it be that the debris of time and cultural change have taken the edge off Jesus’ earth-shattering words?”
― Lois Tverberg, Walking in the Dust of Rabbi Jesus: How the Jewish Words of Jesus Can Change Your Life

“paradox that God is sovereign, and yet he’s grieved by human suffering and sin? Didn’t Jesus weep with Mary and Martha one moment before he raised Lazarus from”
― Lois Tverberg, Walking in the Dust of Rabbi Jesus: How the Jewish Words of Jesus Can Change Your Life

“Kaiser, Walter, and Duane Garrett. Archaeological Study Bible: An Illustrated Walk through Biblical History and Culture”
― Lois Tverberg, Walking in the Dust of Rabbi Jesus: How the Jewish Words of Jesus Can Change Your Life

“Hillul Hashem (hi-LOOL ha-SHEM; lit., “profaning the name”) — To cause those who don’t know God to despise him by doing something evil publicly and associating God with it.”
― Lois Tverberg, Walking in the Dust of Rabbi Jesus: How the Jewish Words of Jesus Can Change Your Life

“Haver (ha-VAIR; lit., “friend”; masc. pl., haverim, ha-ver-EEM) —One who partners with another to study religious texts together. A female study partner is a haverah (ha-ver-AH; pl.,”
― Lois Tverberg, Walking in the Dust of Rabbi Jesus: How the Jewish Words of Jesus Can Change Your Life

“About a century after Jesus’ time, Rabbi Akiva declared, “ ‘And you shall love”
― Lois Tverberg, Walking in the Dust of Rabbi Jesus: How the Jewish Words of Jesus Can Change Your Life

“Covered in the Dust of Your Rabbi: An Urban Legend?” at OurRabbiJesus.com.”
― Lois Tverberg, Walking in the Dust of Rabbi Jesus: How the Jewish Words of Jesus Can Change Your Life

“God's anger at sin exists IN TENSION with his overwhelming love. The same passionate concern for humanity that causes God's anger is also the source of his tenacious, everlasting love that bursts out in joy when his children finally come home.”
― Lois Tverberg, Walking in the Dust of Rabbi Jesus: How the Jewish Words of Jesus Can Change Your Life

“hara. In Jewish thought, we’re responsible for”
― Lois Tverberg, Walking in the Dust of Rabbi Jesus: How the Jewish Words of Jesus Can Change Your Life

“our relationship with money reveals our relationship with God.”
― Lois Tverberg, Walking in the Dust of Rabbi Jesus: How the Jewish Words of Jesus Can Change Your Life

“The ultimate reward for Christ’s disciples, however, will be the praise of God himself, when he says, “Well done, good and faithful servant!” (Matthew 25:21, 23) for our willingness to serve his Son’s mission of redeeming the Father’s precious world. Wisdom”
― Lois Tverberg, Walking in the Dust of Rabbi Jesus: How the Jewish Words of Jesus Can Change Your Life

“God’s idea of humility, however, is to realize that each one of us is precious in his sight, and yet everyone else is too.”
― Lois Tverberg, Walking in the Dust of Rabbi Jesus: How the Jewish Words of Jesus Can Change Your Life

“Therefore, one should rather fling himself into a fiery furnace than humiliate someone in public,” declares the Talmud.12 While Christians know intuitively that humiliating others is wrong, it is good to remind ourselves of the severity of its effects, especially on our spouses and children. Jews”
― Lois Tverberg, Walking in the Dust of Rabbi Jesus: How the Jewish Words of Jesus Can Change Your Life

“In Jewish thought, we’re responsible for the actions of our community, not just ourselves. We should guard not just our own words, but even the words that we cause others to speak!”
― Lois Tverberg, Walking in the Dust of Rabbi Jesus: How the Jewish Words of Jesus Can Change Your Life

“And be gentle in judging those in need, one rabbi pointed out. “When a poor man asks you for aid, do not use his faults as an excuse for not helping him. For then God will look at your offenses, and he is sure to find many.”18”
― Lois Tverberg, Walking in the Dust of Rabbi Jesus: How the Jewish Words of Jesus Can Change Your Life

“Sometimes I wonder if too many of us assume that ‘The Feeling’ is the whole point of worship—worse, that it’s the whole point of Christianity,”
― Lois Tverberg, Walking in the Dust of Rabbi Jesus: How the Jewish Words of Jesus Can Change Your Life