Quotes about Israel

Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God is one Lord.

And she named the child Ichabod, saying, The glory is departed from Israel: because the ark of God was taken.

David the son of Jesse… the sweet psalmist of Israel.

I Deborah arose… I arose a mother in Israel.

In those days there was no king in Israel: every man did that which was right in his own eyes.

Go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.

But now, thus says the LORD, your Creator, O Jacob, and He who formed you, O Israel: "Do not fear, for I have redeemed you; I have called you by name; you are Mine!" ISAIAH 43 : 1

Oh, Lord God of Israel, I don't understand these things. Is it wrong to want to belong to you? My soul longs for you. Help me to be obedient, to be a proper wife to Joseph, for you are sovereign and must have chosen this man for me. Make me a woman after your own heart. Create in me a clean heart, and renew a right spirit within me.

Thus, I repeat, anti-Semitism and anti-Judaism are spiritually destructive and stupid. In the words of Pope Pius XI: "Spiritually, we are Semites." You cannot be a good Catholic until you've fallen in love with the religion and people of Israel. WALK

Remember that Israel's tradition always had men worshiping in imitation of angels. Now, as Revelation shows, both heaven and earth participate together in a single act of loving worship.

This, however, is similar to God saying that the land belonged to Israel. They were promised the land, but they still had to fight for it. Furthermore, not all the battles were successful.

My constant prayer, my number one foreign goal, is to bring peace to Israel. And in the process to Israel's neighbours.