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David Novak Quotes

American - Theologian | 1941 -

The Holocaust, taken by itself, is a black hole. To look at it directly is to be swallowed up by it.

Black Look Holocaust Up Hole Taken

Roots can live without branches, although truncated; branches cannot live without roots.

Live Roots Without Branches Cannot

Modernity has been largely shaped for Jews by three momentous experiences: the acquisition of citizenship by individual Jews in secular nation-states, the destruction of one-third of Jewry in the Holocaust, and the founding of the State of Israel.

Citizenship Holocaust Three Israel

Proselytizing is only wrong if coercive or deceptive. Coercion, whether violent or not, is immoral, just as deception is immoral.

Wrong Deception Only Just Violent

Foundational autonomy asserts instead that in the most fundamental practical sense, I am my own creator, which means that at the core, I am alone.

Alone I Am My Own Own Creator Core

The Jewish tradition presents itself as the greatest revelation of God's truth that can be known in the world. That is why we call ourselves 'the chosen people.' It is not that we choose ourselves. It means that we have been elected by God and given the Torah.

God Truth People World Choose Why

Most Jews, like most rational persons, know that their personal identity and their ethnic identity are not one and the same.

Identity Know Personal Same Rational

A traditional rabbi is the man to whom the community and its members turn to rule on what Jewish law requires of them, particularly in cases of doubt.

Community Man Law Doubt Jewish Turn

The Vatican's recognition of the State of Israel in 1997 could not have occurred without John Paul's leadership.

Leadership Recognition Without Israel

If human language, with its logic, is the way God has given us to understand the world, then the Torah must be understood in that same language and with that same logic.

God World Language Logic Understand

The one and only time I met Pope Benedict XVI was when he was Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger.

Time Cardinal Only Only Time Pope

Although most Christian churches advocate some sort of mission to non-Christians, no Jewish group advocates a mission to non-Jews. Proselytization seems to be foreign to Judaism.

Christian Mission Group Jewish Seems

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