John Adams Quotes

The Hebrews have done more to civilize men than any other nation.

Judaism and Christianity in themselves are distinctly separate entities, to be sure; but when considering their influence on Western thought, we must bear in mind that Christianity alone, or almost alone, transmitted the Jewish share, simply by what it contained of it in its own, original constitution.

Abraham is the shared ancestor of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. He stands at the heart of these three faiths. And yet you know almost nothing about him.

I believe that the people of Israel are the chosen people of God.

I do believe that Muslims and Christians and Jews pray to the same God. And yet they understand who God is in significantly different ways.

Jews have God's promise and if we Christians have it, too, then it is only as those chosen with them, as guests in their house, that we are new wood grafted onto their tree.

Judaism boasts of no exclusive revelation of eternal truths that are indispensable to salvation, of no revealed religion in the sense in which that term is usually understood.

Abraham is such a fascinating figure. Three world religions - Judaism, Christianity, and Islam - all claim him as a patriarch. He was raised in a religious home. And yet he rejected religion in order to pursue a personal relationship with God.

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.

The Law of Moses became the font and spring of constitutional government.

The acknowledgement of the Judeo Christian God is not religion.

How odd Of God To choose The Jews

[Referring to Judaism:] ... a gutter religion.

[The Jews] are the people of the Book [ahl' ul-kitab.]

Should the people of the world say to Israel, “You are robbers, because you took by force the land of the 7 nations of Canaan” Israel may reply to them. “All the earth belongs to the Holy One, blessed be He; He created it and gave it to whom He pleased. When He willed He gave it to them, and when He willed He took it from them and gave it to us.

I am not insulted by billions of Christians, Muslims and Jews believing there is a God and praying to this nonexistent deity on a regular basis.

Islam is at once the most and the least interesting of the world's monotheisms. It builds upon its primitive Jewish and Christian predecessors, selecting a chunk here and a shard there, and thus if these fall, it partly falls also.

The Christian theory of the sacredness of the Bible has been at the cost of the world's civilization.

It's very clear from Biblical history and Jewish history that Jewish monotheism wasn't developed in an instant, that it became gradually the accepted norm. But undoubtedly, Jewish ancestors were polytheists.

Religious thinkers have done their best to twist science and philosophy to back up their law.

Looking at Islam in its original sense, it is very much like the Abrahamic tradition.

I'm not a prophet. I'm the leader of Israel.

Make war on them until idolatry does not exist any longer and Allah's religion reigns universally.

Since the Exodus, Freedom has always spoken with a Hebrew accent.

The support of Israel is God’s foreign policy.