“We are great and our faults are great and therefore our problems great and great are our consolations.”
Orot Hatchiah 5.
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Abraham Isaac Kook 13
first Ashkenazi chief rabbi of the British Mandatory Palest… 1865–1935Related quotes
The Lesson, Stanza 8 (1899-1902).
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“It has been the great fault of our politicians that they have all wanted to do something.”
Source: Phineas Finn (1869), Ch. 13
“The great are only great because we are on our knees. Let us rise”
A Grief Observed (1961)
Context: Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable. How many hours are there in a mile? Is yellow square or round? Probably half the questions we ask — half our great theological and metaphysical problems — are like that.
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“Great is our God, and great is His power, and his strength is immeasurable”
In the dedication from his 12th edition.
Original in Latin: "Magnus est DEUS noster, & magna est potentia Ejus, & potentia Ejus non est numerus."
Systema Naturae