Jerusalem Quotes

“Jerusalem is a port city on the shore of eternity.”
― Yehuda Amichai

“Had there been a lunatic asylum in the suburbs of Jerusalem, Jesus Christ would infallibly have been shut up in it at the outset of his public career. That interview with Satan on the pinnacle of the Temple would alone have damned him, and everything that happened after could but have confirmed the diagnosis.”
― Havelock Ellis, Impressions and Comments

“الربيع في القدس كان هو الربيع لأنك تراه يحل في البلد، كأنه مشهد غيره المخرج على خشبة المسرح. فالجبل البلقع في الشتاء قد اخضوضر فجأة أمام عينيك، وحتى بيتك الصغير المتهدم عند منعطف الطريق ، حيث الحجارة المهملة منذ أيام آل عثمان، وحيث الشجرة اليابسة ، يحس الربيع لأن زهورًا كعيون الأطفال قد نبتت بين الحجارة نفسها ، حول الجذع العاقر المسنّ نفسه. ولذا فإن الليالي قد تأتيني بذكريات من القدس فأحزن ، وأغضب ، وأبكي.”
― جبرا إبراهيم جبرا, السفينة

“The telescope destroyed the firmament, did away with the heaven of the New Testament, rendered the ascension of our Lord and the assumption of his Mother infinitely absurd, crumbled to chaos the gates and palaces of the New Jerusalem, and in their places gave to man a wilderness of worlds.”
― Robert G. Ingersoll, Some Mistakes of Moses

“It is more than twenty years since we left the city. This is a serious chunk of time, longer than the years we spent living there. Yet we still think of Jerusalem as our home. Not home in the sense of the place that you conduct your daily life or constantly return to. In fact, Jerusalem is our home almost against our wills. It is our home because it defines us, whether we like it or not.”
― Yotam Ottolenghi, Jerusalem: A Cookbook

“Oh che sanguinosa e spaziosa porta
Fa l'una e l'altra spada ovunque giugna,
Nell'arme e nelle carni! E se la vita
Non esce, sdegno tienla al petto unita.”
― Torquato Tasso, Jerusalem Delivered

“I have now gone through the examination of the four books ascribed to Matthew, Mark, Luke and John; and when it is considered that the whole space of time, from the crucifixion to what is called the ascension, is but a few days, apparently not more than three or four, and that all the circumstances are reported to have happened nearly about the same spot, Jerusalem, it is, I believe, impossible to find in any story upon record so many and such glaring absurdities, contradictions, and falsehoods, as are in those books. They are more numerous and striking than I had any expectation of finding, when I began this examination, and far more so than I had any idea of when I wrote the former part of 'The Age of Reason.”
― Thomas Paine, The Age of Reason

“و بيت المقدس مدينة مرتفعة على الجبال يصعد اليها من كل مكان. و بها مسجد ليس في الإسلام مسجد أكبر منه”
― الاصطرخي كتاب "مسالك الممالك"

“The government system we have now is set up just like that of Rome and is changing into a system I call Corpocracism (Babylon, United States). Corpocracism is a word derived from some entities of feudalism, democracy, capitalism, classism, and corporatism to form a government system into a dictatorship and police state. This system is being brought about by a group of people in our own government, corporations, financial institutions and foreign entities. It is an ideology of hypocrisy that is leading to an JerUSAlem (America) that will sale off every aspect of its nations people to be captive to foreign entities such as corporations, governments, lawyers, financial institutions, banks, individuals and groups of individuals.”
― Brian David Mattson, JerUSAlem and the Blood of Jesus

“Clorinda fui, né sol qui spirto umano
albergo in questa pianta rozza e dura,
ma ciascun altro ancor, franco o pagano,
che lassi i membri a piè de l'alte mura,
astretto è qui da novo incanto e strano,
non so s'io dica in corpo o in sepoltura.”
― Torquato Tasso, Jerusalem Delivered

“Sarucha (age 8): "Look, down there, I recognize it, ciudad de Jerusalén (the city of Jerusalem)! Jerusalén!, Jerusalén!" she exclaimed.”
― Rabbi Sipporah Joseph, Teacher of Knowledge

“Light has a voice?” Sarucha inquired, amazed.”
― Rabbi Sipporah Joseph, Teacher of Knowledge