Elie Munk Quotes

Elie Munk , was a German-born French rabbi and rabbinic scholar, "a scion of a long and distinguished line of German rabbis and scholars".A number of other Jewish scholars have similar names. Eliyahu Munk translated numerous Jewish Bible commentaries to English. Eli Munk wrote the book Seven Days of the Beginning. All are members of the same extended family. Wikipedia

✵ 15. September 1900 – 5. June 1981

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Famous Elie Munk Quotes

“The modern world, more than in any preceding epoch, feels the necessity to learn anew how to pray.”

page 1
The World of Prayer, vol. 1

“It is only in the period between adolescence and maturity and not during the earlier stages of development that any organism can unfold its full strength.”

page 96
The World of Prayer, vol. 2

“The community does not suffer deficiencies. What is lacking in one individual is made up by the other.”

Quoted in Christopher B. Ricks and Leonard Michaels, The State of the Language, p. 60

“In the midst of the titanic struggles of ideologies that dominate our age, it is from our prayers that we derive the firmest support for mind and soul.”

Source: The World of Prayer, vol. 2, page VII

“There are three kinds of forces: the forces of nature, the spiritual and moral ones, and finally those of history and destiny.”

page 12
The World of Prayer, vol. 1

“A ladder is the instrument of ascent; it symbolises intensity rising to a climax. this, too, is the meaning of prayer.”

page 11
The World of Prayer, vol. 1

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