Rufus Jones Quotes

Religions get lost as people do.

It isn't only living people who die, it is great stretches of living, which can die even when the people who lived there still exist.

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

People are optimistic about the future.

To doubt is worse than to have lost; and to despair is but to antedate those miseries that must fall on us.

Everything Sholom Aleichem talks about in his plays and his short stories is about people, family, man's relationship with his God, the breaking down of tradition.

What we, as African Americans, stood on was our faith.

If we lose our hope, that's our real disaster!

The arts and humanities define who we are as a people. That is their power -- to remind us of what we each have to offer, and what we all have in common. To help us understand our history and imagine our future. To give us hope in the moments of struggle and to bring us together when nothing else will.

The black people in this country are taught that their religion and the best religion is the religion of Islam, and when one accepts the religion of Islam, he's known as a Muslim.

Rationally I have no hope, irrationally I believe in miracles.

If I bet on humanity, I'd never cash a ticket.

He who has never hoped can never despair

One by one, like leaves from a tree, / All my faiths have forsaken me.

A people's speech is the skin of its culture.

I am who I am because of the people who I grew up with and where I'm from.

Anything that kills hope is a sin

Who can hope for nothing, should despair for nothing.

With the world in turmoil and doubt, the American people, faithful to the values that have always defined America's identity, have expressed with force their faith in progress and the future. At a time when we must face huge challenges together, your election has raised enormous hope in France, in Europe and beyond.

If there is a chronic infirmity by which every teacher ought to be afflicted, it is, indeed, hope.

Despair the twin-born of devotion.

I'm of the people in the bar and the people in my stories. They are my tribe.

You were born at a pretty crappy time in history. And it looks like things are only gonna get worse from here on out.

Actually, it's the other way round. In a poor country, the only consolation people can have is the one that comes from their beliefs.

People are always shouting they want to create a better future. It's not true. The future is an apathetic void of no interest to anyone.