Janet Suzman Quotes

In terms of my religious preference, if a year goes by and I don't have a Seder or I don't light the menorah, I feel a loss.

The Jews know who they are as a people. The Christians have not come together as a people yet.

I'm Jewish, but I'm totally not.

I remain convinced that I can be a true universalist only when I am a better Jew.

Myself, first of all, I am a Jew. And that is the most important thing for me.

One way to define spiritual life is getting so tired and fed up with yourself you go on to something better, which is following Jesus.

More than Israel has kept the Sabbath, the Sabbath has kept Israel.

In the early days of the December that my father was to die, my younger brother brought me the news that I was a Jew. I was then a transplanted Englishman in America, married, with one son and, though unconsoled by any religion, a nonbelieving member of two Christian churches. On hearing the tidings, I was pleased to find that I was pleased.

I never even realized I was Jewish until I was practically grown up. Or rather, I used to feel that everybody in the world was Jewish, which amounts to the same thing.

My national identity is first American. My religious identity is first Muslim.

Christianity means a lot more than church membership.

Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an automobile.

It is not enough to be delivered from sin; it is enough to be delivered to righteousness.

Lord, open the eyes of the Queen's majesty, that she may see Jesus Christ, whom she has pierced with her infidelity, superstition, and idolatry.

This is a serious warning cry: Surrender without reservation to the Lord who has called us. This is required of us so that the face of the earth may be renewed.

I didn't emphasize my Jewishness because I wanted to. I just happen to have been raised in a family where everybody happened to talk like this, so why would I talk like somebody else?

I smoked, I drank, I did all the kicking my heels up type things, but I went to Mass on Sunday.

I'm proud to be Jewish.

After my bar mitzvah, I started to assimilate, to really not pay attention to my roots. The anti-Semitic experiences of my youth had been very painful. You try to put all that in the past and become a person of the world. I think that's the right thing to do. But it's not right to leave out who you really are. That's a tragedy.

It's something that I do every year - every Ramadan to be exact - taking an 18-hour flight back home to Malaysia from Los Angeles. I'm born and raised in Malaysia, and Ramadan and Eid has always been my favorite time of the year.

My heritage is a huge part of everything I do; it is, after all, part of what has made me who I am.

I always knew Jesus, but I didn't have the relationship I do now.

Judaism is not just a religion but a people, and the food and customs of one part of the people is connected to the other part of the people. They are part of a larger story.

My great grandfather was the last practicing Jew in my family. He died in 1982.

I love being Jewish, but I think that our generation is the first generation that crossed that line between being a cultural versus a practicing Jew.