I thought that culture and education are the shield. An educated person cannot do certain things and, and be educated, you cannot, and there they were, killing children day after day.

If God exists, how can we lay claim to freedom, since He is its beginning and its end?

Every moment is a new beginning.

Christians call it the "Sacrifice of Isaac," and Jews call it the "Binding of Isaac."

Night is purer than day; it is better for thinking and loving and dreaming.

None of us is in a position to eliminate war, but it is our obligation to denounce it and expose it in all its hideousness. War leaves no victors, only victims.

If you read Exodus 15 carefully, it describes a storm at sea. This is the old Yahwistic source. In the retelling of the story in the later Priestly source, it is more miraculous: The water stands up on either side like a wall. There are walls of water standing up. As you move back in time, oddly enough, the story becomes more historical.