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There's a reason the Exodus story has inspired so many Americans. It's a narrative of hope. -- Bruce Feiler
Metal is easily my favorite thing - Exodus and Anthrax and Megadeth - so it just kind of organically came through in the standup act. -- Brian Posehn
If I'm ever feeling uninspired, all I have to do is go see Exodus or Arch Enemy, and think 'Oh yeah, that's what we're doing this for.' -- Kerry King
Since the Exodus, freedom has always spoken with a Hebrew accent. -- Heinrich Heine
The actual evidence concerning the Exodus resembles the evidence for the unicorn. -- Baruch Halpern
The Exodus from Egypt occurs in every human being, in every era, in every year, and in every day. -- Nachman of Breslov
The most significant indicator that there is no disaster in Iraq is the fact that there is no exodus. -- Bashar al-Assad
The metaphor of Exodus is one that has dogged the Jews from the outset. Their very success attracts resentment. -- Jack Schwartz
There's something really powerful when I, for example, hear Bob Marley's 'Exodus' - we know where we're going. We know where we're from. -- Matisyahu
It's no secret that in New York during the last 30 years there has been a tragic exodus from the churches into materialism, secularism and humanism. -- Billy Graham
The trees are white with dust, that o'er their sleep Wave their broad curtains in the south-wind's breath, While underneath such leafy tents they keep The long, mysterious Exodus of Death. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
You know that Moses was spinning like crazy in Exodus XIV through XVII when the Jewish people wanted to go back and become a place again because tramping through the desert was a bit too hard. -- Joe Klein
The fundamental basis of this Nation's law was given to Moses on the Mount. The fundamental basis of our Bill of Rights comes from the teachings which we get from Exodus and St. Matthew, from Isaiah and St. Paul. -- Harry S. Truman
There is a movement in club football, which I don't necessarily consider a prime example of solidarity, because it leads us to conclude the rich are getting richer and they are using everything in the market to create an exodus from Africa. -- Sepp Blatter
Hoffmeier furnishes a sophisticated fresh approach to the Biblical Exodus traditions filled with detailed Egyptological background, and utterly indispensable because of its basis in recent, and in many cases as yet unpublished, archaeological data. This is a virtual encyclopedia of the Exodus. -- Baruch Halpern
It is quite exhilarating to speak about a God who has an incredible bias, a notorious bias in favor of the downtrodden. You look at Exodus and the Israelites' escape from a bottomless pit. God is not evenhanded. God is biased up to his eyebrows. -- Desmond Tutu
We know a great deal about the configuration of the menorah from the biblical book of Exodus. Beaten out of solid gold, the ancient candelabrum boasted six branches emerging from a seventh, its central shaft. The menorah was adorned with golden buttons, cups, and flowers. -- Meir Soloveichik
Jews read the books of Moses not just as history but as divine command. The question to which they are an answer is not, 'What happened?' but rather, 'How then shall I live?' And it's only with the exodus that the life of the commands really begins. -- Jonathan Sacks
That [Exodus] occurred, I have no doubt. -- Elie Wiesel
I personally have no doubt that the Exodus occurred. How it occurred, I don't know. -- Elie Wiesel
The God of Exodus is the God of history and of political liberation more than he is the God of nature. -- Gustavo GutiÃ©rrez
My greatest accomplishment is Exodus. It changed a lot of peoples lives, it changed the conception of the Jewish people in the international scene. -- Leon Uris
For nearly 3,500 years Exodus has left such an imprint on people's memories that I cannot imagine it had been invented just as a legend or a tale. -- Elie Wiesel
The Bible cares about the systems that create oppression. We see this in the Exodus all the way to Jesus' interactions with Zacchaeus and the prostitute in John 8. -- Sho Baraka
[Shirat ha-Yam ] is one of the earliest, if not the earliest, pieces of Biblical literature that we possess. It is much closer to history than later traditions of the Exodus. -- Elie Wiesel
The founder of every ex-gay ministry in America has proved to be an extraordinary failure. The two founders of Exodus International, [the world's largest 'ex-gay' organization], divorced their wives to move in together, -- Wayne Besen
My beliefs and my desires have changed. They have come into alignment with who he is and who he created you to be. And that's a wonderful thing and that's what we will always offer at Exodus. -- Alan Chambers
"Thou shalt not bear false witness" Exodus 20:16. When we speak of morality, we imply that a man is true to his word-true to his signature on a contract. The violations of God's laws are evidence that lying and misrepresentation are not absent from us. -- Ezra Taft Benson
Someone's always calling for my resignation. It's nothing new. It's something that's been part of my tenure at Exodus over the last decade plus. So he can add his voice to the chorus of others whether it's gay activists or now a New Testament professor. -- Alan Chambers
I think that's really where we need to be more consistent as believers. Exodus will do that for people who come to us for help. But we will encourage the church to do that in general for anyone and everyone who's seeking to be a mature believer in Christ. -- Alan Chambers
I think if the general exodus that seems to be going on occurs it's going to be a disaster,. -- David Graeber
I see a sequence of seven main phases: creation,revolution or exodus (Israel in Egypt), law, wisdom, prophecy, gospel, and apocalypse. -- Northrop Frye
All we have to do now is to inform the public that the payment of social security taxes is voluntary and watch the mass exodus. -- Walter E. Williams
To see how many Italians are going out of Italy, the sort of exodus, a great generation leaving my country, I think is the worst nightmare for me as prime minister but also for the country, of course. -- Enrico Letta
What we lose in our great human exodus from the land is a rooted sense, as deep and intangible as religious faith, of why we need to hold on to the wild and beautiful places that once surrounded us. -- Barbara Kingsolver
We collected in a group in front of their door, and we experienced within ourselves a grief that was new for us, the ancient grief of the people that has no land, the grief without hope of the exodus which is renewed in every century. -- Primo Levi
The key to liberation from the power of materialism is not an exodus from culture - abandoning Wall Street or leaving the wealth of the nation to others - but the grace of giving... Givers for God disarm the power of money. They invite God's grace to flow through them. -- R. Kent Hughes
While the Passover narrative [in Exodus] energizes Israel's imagination toward justice, Israel's hard work of implementation of that imaginative scenario was done at Mt. Sinai. . . . Moses' difficult work at Sinai is to transform the narrative vision of the Exodus into a sustainable social practice that has institutional staying-power, credibility, and authority. -- Walter Brueggemann
God's careful instructions for building the tabernacle in Exodus 31 remind us that his perfection sets the standard for whatever we create in his name. Whatever we happen to make-not only in the visual arts, but in all the arts-we should make it as well as we can, offering God our very best. -- Philip Graham Ryken
With all due respect for the wondrous ways people have invented to amuse themselves and one another on paved surfaces, I find that this exodus from the land makes me unspeakably sad. I think of the children who will never know, intuitively, that a flower is a plant's way of making love, or what silence sounds like, or that trees breathe out what we breathe in. -- Barbara Kingsolver
Some would do just about anything for an exodus. -- Michael L. Martin Jr.
If blacks are oppressed in America, why isnâ??t there a black exodus? -- David Horowitz
Certain corpuscles, denominated Christmas Books, with the ostensible intention of swelling the tide of exhilaration, or other expansive emotions, incident upon the exodus of the old and the inauguration of the New Year. -- William Makepeace Thackeray

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