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Every mother is like Moses. She does not enter the promised land. She prepares a world she will not see. -- Pope Paul VI
I have wondered at times what the Ten Commandments would have looked like if Moses had run them through the US Congress. -- Ronald Reagan
Let me tell you something that we Israelis have against Moses. He took us 40 years through the desert in order to bring us to the one spot in the Middle East that has no oil! -- Golda Meir
How far would Moses have gone if he had taken a poll in Egypt? -- Harry S. Truman
Moses was the greatest legislator and the commander in chief of perhaps the first liberation army. -- Elie Wiesel
I don't remember Moses writing, 'Thou shalt not kill.. unless you think you have a good reason. -- Willie Nelson
Englishmen learn Christ's law best in English. Moses heard God's law in his own tongue; so did Christ's apostles. -- John Wycliffe
If Moses had been paid newspaper rates for the Ten Commandments, he might have written the Two Thousand Commandments. -- Isaac Bashevis Singer
Yes, I'm a Judeo-Christian. Jesus and Moses are in my heart, and... both of them were independents, by the way. -- Kinky Friedman
Moses Kaldor had always loved mountains; they made him feel nearer to the God whose nonexistence he still sometimes resented. -- Arthur C. Clarke
Man has made 32 million laws since the Commandments were handed down to Moses on Mount Sinai... but he has never improved on God's law. -- Cecil B. DeMille
Jehovah had nothing to say to Moses and the others about the care of the planet. He had plenty to say about tribal loyalty and conquest. -- E. O. Wilson
Lycurgus, Numa, Moses, Jesus Christ, Mohammed, all these great rogues, all these great thought-tyrants, knew how to associate the divinities they fabricated with their own boundless ambition. -- Marquis de Sade
Christ is no Moses, no exactor, no giver of laws, but a giver of grace, a Savior; he is infinite mercy and goodness, freely and bountifully given to us. -- Martin Luther
The Israelites' slavery in Egypt is the equivalent of our slavery to sin. God sent Moses to deliver them from bondage, and He sent Jesus Christ to set us free. -- Joyce Meyer
If Moses had gone to Harvard Law School and spent three years working on the Hill, he would have written the Ten Commandments with three exceptions and a saving clause. -- Charles Morgan
I'm the most recognized and loved man that ever lived cuz there weren't no satellites when Jesus and Moses were around, so people far away in the villages didn't know about them. -- Muhammad Ali
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Two of the chief defenders of the faith in the Old Testament and in the New - Moses and Paul - were both well-versed in the language, the thinking, and the philosophy of their cultures. -- Ravi Zacharias
Just as God gave Moses exactly what he needed to accomplish great things, he will equip us in the same way. If he calls us to slay giants, he will make us into giant slayers. -- Christine Caine
How do we know that Moses was grown up? Because he went out unto his brethren, and was ready to bear the burdens and share the plight of his people. Maturity is sensitivity to human suffering. -- Julius Gordon
We in the Middle East like to talk politics, we like to argue. Just look at the three prophets - Moses, Jesus and Mohammad. They are all from this small region which creates problems all the time. -- Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani
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
I used to think like Moses. That knocked me down for a couple years and put me in prison. Then I start thinking like Job. Job waited and became the wealthiest and richest man ever 'cause he believed in God. -- James Brown
I'm not saying everything out there is bad and toxic, but there are some things that are not scriptural. For example, some people don't understand that the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ. -- Joseph Prince
Satan cannot win. Why not? Because he has denied God's sovereignty and disobeyed God's law. But Moses was told explicitly, God's blessings come only from obedience. Satan will not win because he has abandoned God's tool of dominion, biblical law. -- Gary North
The air in a man's lungs 10,000,000,000, 000,000,000,000 atoms, so that sooner or later every one of us breathes an atom that has been breathed before by anyone you can think of who has ever lived - Michelangelo or George Washington or Moses. -- Jacob Bronowski
This music has been around since before the beard on Moses. I happed to do it very well and I happen to have a lot of groovy songs that I know people are going to dig. I know more about it than you do. -- George Thorogood
Muslims are not bloodthirsty people. Islam is a religion of peace that forbids the killing of the innocent. Islam also accepts the Prophets, whether those prophets are Mohammed, God's peace and blessing be upon Him, or Moses or the other prophets of the Books. -- Abdullah of Saudi Arabia
Moses spent forty years in the king's palace thinking that he was somebody; then he lived forty years in the wilderness finding out that without GOD he was a nobody; finally he spent forty more years discovering how a nobody with GOD can be a somebody. -- Dwight L. Moody
I used to walk around with a stick. My dad used to call me Moses. It's on a home video. He said, 'That kid would rather lead no one than follow anyone.' I had dogs following me in the neighborhood. I had neighborhood kids coming over. -- Brad D. Smith
Moses: God or crowd control?!? -- Mary Ann Shaffer
Africa has her mouth on Moses. -- Zora Neale Hurston
Moses is our true founding father. -- Bruce Feiler
Holy Moses on a pogo stick!! -- Tina St. John
I would love to be Moses. -- Dick Van Dyke
For every Pharoah there is a Moses. -- Idries Shah
Accumulate, accumulate! This is Moses and the Prophets! -- Karl Marx
My success? Being born the son of Moses Annenberg. -- Walter Annenberg
She's so pure, Moses couldn't even part her knees. -- Joan Rivers
Moses should have said "Let my people go. Please. -- Christopher Moore
To me Moses is all men grown to gigantic proportions. -- Charlton Heston
Not since Moses has anyone seen a mountain so greatly. -- Rainer Maria Rilke
Which is the more believable of the two, Moses or China? -- Blaise Pascal
[Moses] Mendelssohn was a religious Jew. I felt sorry for him. -- Elie Wiesel
My law-givers are Erasmus and Montaigne, not Moses and St Paul. -- E. M. Forster
Moses freed the Jews. Lincoln freed the slaves. I freed the neurotics. -- Larry Flynt
What is meant by calling the writings of Moses and the Prophets -- Adolph Saphir
Moses made mistakes, Abraham made mistakes, David made mistakes, Elijah made mistakes... -- Herbert W. Armstrong
I believe Moses was 80 when God first commissioned him for public service. -- Ronald Reagan
What's interesting to me about Moses isn't the big stuff that everybody knows. -- Ridley Scott
Egypt: Where the Israelites would still be if Moses had been a bureaucrat. -- Laurence J. Peter
there comes a time in every rabbi's life when he thinks he's Moses. -- Silvia Tennenbaum
Already by 1900 I could boast I had written as many books as Moses. -- Winston Churchill
If I'm out of my mind, it's all right with me, thought Moses Herzog. -- Saul Bellow
[Moses] is obsessed with hip-hop and wanted a gold chain like his uncle Jay-Z. -- Gwyneth Paltrow
Moses, who said to the Israelites, Stop calling me Charlton! Never got a dinner! -- Red Buttons
No one needs a first edition. Whoever wrote it; even if it was Moses. -- Graham Joyce
Jesus and Lincoln, Moses and Jefferson can seem so long gone, so unbelievable, so dead. -- Sarah Vowell
And here's Moses Kiptanui - the 19 year old Kenyan, who turned 20 a few weeks ago. -- David Coleman
No government may remain strong by ignoring the commandments given to Moses on Mount Sinai. -- Spencer W. Kimball
Moses and the crooked snake... that turned into a stuck, that was actually a disintegrator pistol. -- L. Ron Hubbard
Moses probably danced a little, right? You don't part the Red Sea without having some moves. -- Dick Van Dyke
If Moses had operated through committees the Israelites never would have got across the Red Sea. -- William Booth
If President Nixon's secretary, Rosemary Woods, had been Moses' secretary, there would only be eight commandments. -- Art Buchwald
Here comes Moses tromping down off Mount Syanide with ten fresh ways to wreck your life. -- Barbara Kingsolver
Moses, Aaron, Abraham, they're all a waste of time. It's your ass that's on the line. -- Frank Zappa
With the history of Moses no book in the world, in point of antiquity, can contend. -- John Tillotson
Identity is not found, the way Pharaoh's daughter found Moses in the bulrushes. Identity is built. -- Margaret Halsey
Neither Britain, a land fertile in tyrants, nor the people of Ireland, knew Moses and the prophets. -- St. Jerome
Moses desired to see God; I do not desire to see God;He desires to see me -- Bayazid Bastami
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I don't remember Moses writing, 'Thou shalt not kill unless you think you have a good reason. -- Willie Nelson
We know, on the authority of Moses, that longer than six thousand years the world did not exist. -- Martin Luther
Moses goes to the top of the mountain and he comes back glowing, transformed. He became the vision. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
While waiting for a Moses to lead us into the promised land, we have forgotten how to walk. -- Wendell Johnson
And Numenius, the Pythagorean philosopher, expressly writes: 'For what is Plato, but Moses speaking in Attic Greek.' -- Clement of Alexandria
I like the character of Moses. He is the first disunionist we read of in the Jewish Scriptures. -- Frances Harper
What Moses brought down from Mt. Sinai were not the Ten Suggestions, they are Commandments. Are, not were. -- Ted Koppel
Moses dragged us through the desert to the one place in the Middle East where there is no oil. -- Golda Meir
Everyone has their preferred stroller, their preferred crib, their preferred Moses basket. And they have advice on that too! -- Tori Spelling
Moses - the man of God - was a species of human chameleon - scholar, general, law-giver, leader, etc. -- Charles Studd
Venice, as a city, was a foundling, floating upon the waters like Moses in his basket among the bulrushes. -- Mary McCarthy
I developed an anger at [Moses] Mendelssohn. Later, I read the book. I realized there was nothing subversive in it. -- Elie Wiesel
Moses, who said to the children of Israel, Wear your galoshes; I never did this trick before. Never got a dinner! -- Red Buttons
Were Moses to go up Mount Sinai today, the two tablets he'd bring down with him would be aspirin and Prozac. -- Joseph A. Califano, Jr.
Some people say I would love to take a selfie with Moses. Do you understand the gap between Moses and God? -- Francis Chan
As Moses threw whatever in his hand on the ground,so does hand should do what it can to earn miracles. -- Toba Beta
People got out of the way for Cam. He was like a hot Moses, parting a sea of drunk college students. -- J. Lynn
Moses has revealed the existence of God to his nation. Jesus Christ to the Roman world, Muhammad to the old continent... -- Napoleon Bonaparte
[Moses] probably said to himself, 'Must stop or I shall be getting silly.' That is why there are only ten commandments. -- Mrs. Patrick Campbell
Joe Lieberman may be Moses on the stump, but when it comes to policies and votes, he boogies with the Golden Calf. -- Don Feder
Without hesitation, I place Freud among the heroes. He dispossessed the Jewish people of the greatest and most influential of all heroes-Moses. -- Salvador Dali
Moses simplifies the whole duty of Israel (and of humanity) by crystalizing the moral law into a single command to love God supremely. -- Max Anders
Brigham Young lived to become immortal in history as an American Moses by leading his people through the wilderness into an unpromised land. -- George Bernard Shaw
I have always thought that if I could turn back the pages of history and photograph one man, my choice would be Moses. -- Margaret Bourke-White
Moses became Americas true founding father because he evangelized action; he justified risk. He gave ordinary people the courage to live with uncertainty. -- Bruce Feiler
Moses was a forgotten man in the wilderness, But God had Moses right where he wanted him and met him at a burning bush. -- Michael Catt
What humanity owes to personalities like Buddha, Moses, and Jesus ranks for me higher than all the achievements of the enquiring and constructive mind. -- Albert Einstein
The great spiritual geniuses, whether it was Moses, Buddha, Plato, Socrates, Jesus, or Emerson..... have taught man to look within himself to find God. -- Ernest Holmes
Without "The Law of Moses" would we all be wandering around like little gods, stealing, raping, and spilling blood whenever our vanity was offended? -- Dan Barker
Retire for what? What would I do? I made my name as a person that is helping. I'm like Moses in the music business. -- James Brown
Does not the passage of Moses and the Israelites into the Holy Land yield incomparably more poetic variety than the voyages of Ulysses or Aeneas? -- Abraham Cowley
Moses spent forty years thinking he was somebody; forty years learning he was nobody; and forty years discovering what God can do with a nobody. -- Dwight L. Moody
I became one of [Moses Mendelssohn] defenders. But then I heard the words "Biblical criticism" again. And, of course, afterward, I studied it more closely. -- Elie Wiesel
Frazzled and delirious, as I've just finished a new book of stories. I feel like Moses staggering down the mountainside with the tablets of stone. -- Kevin Barry
No man can be a sound lawyer in this land who is not well read in the ethics of Moses and the virtues of Jesus. -- Fisher Ames
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Moses, who said when the Red Sea parted, What the hell was that? I was just going in for a dip! Never got a dinner! -- Red Buttons
THe world now has so many problems that if Moses had come down from Mount Sinai today, the two tablets he'd carry would be aspirin. -- Robert Orben
I wouldn't cross the street to hear Ingersoll preach on the mistakes of Moses, but I'd love to hear Moses preach on the mistakes of Ingersoll! -- Vance Havner
When Amos Moses was a boy his daddy would use him for alligator bait, tie a rope around his neck and throw him in the swamp. -- Jerry Reed
...people have always known, at least since Moses denounced the Golden Calf, that images were dangerous, that they can captivate the onlooker and steal the soul. -- William J. Mitchell
Most men are notable for one conspicuous virtue or grace - Moses for meekness, Job for patience, John for love. But, in Jesus you find everything. -- J. Oswald Sanders
At an early age I sucked up the milk of Homer, Virgil, Horace, Terence, Anacreon, Plato and Euripides, diluted with that of Moses and the prophets. -- Denis Diderot
Money only appeals to selfishness and always tempts its owners irresistibly to abuse it. Can anyone imagine Moses, Jesus, or Gandhi armed with the money-bags of Carnegie? -- Albert Einstein
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Dancing is at once rational & healthful: it gives animal spirits; it is the natural amusement of young people, & such it has been from the days of Moses. -- William Cobbett
He was getting that look he gets, oh boy, like Here comes Moses tromping down off of Mount Syanide with ten fresh ways to wreck your life. -- Barbara Kingsolver
Rabbi Zusya said that on the Day of Judgment, God would ask him, not why he had not been Moses, but why he had not been Zusya. -- Walter Kaufmann

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