Quotes about Judaism

No, a man is a Jew because he is one inwardly, and circumcision is a matter of the heart, by the Spirit, not by the written code. Such a man’s praise does not come from men, but from God.

Five times I received from the Jews the forty lashes minus one.

For you have heard of my former way of life in Judaism, how severely I persecuted the church of God and tried to destroy it.

I was advancing in Judaism beyond many of my contemporaries and was extremely zealous for the traditions of my fathers.

For the circumcised do not even keep the law themselves, yet they want you to be circumcised that they may boast in your flesh.

Only Judaism and Christianity are religions of public record, eyewitnessed facts.

Thus, though Christians are in no way bound by the Jewish ceremonial or civil laws (because they were all in some way preparatory for Christ), we are still under the Ten Commandments in one way, though not in two other ways.

Judaism, the one and only directly and divinely revealed religion in the world

I come from a tradition - from the Jewish tradition, which believes in words, in language, in communication.

Where, sir, are the Christian and Jewish jihadists? The only Jewish state in the world is one of the freest countries on earth, with protections for minority religions and women and homosexuals unknown anywhere in the Muslim world. And virtually every free country in the world is in the Christian world.

Monotheism was not a specifically Jewish revolution because it predated Abraham by several generations. The Jewish revolution was ethical monotheism

The Torah and Judaism are behaviorist in their approach to life. How we behave is ultimately more important than how we think or feel. This is one of the greatest differences between the Torah and the contemporary mind, which attaches far more importance to how people feel.