Milton Steinberg Professions : RabbiBorn : November 25, 1903Died : March 20, 1950 Browse All Authors Top 4 quotes by Milton Steinberg The believer in God has to account for the existence of unjust suffering; the atheist has to account for everything else. Milton Steinberg unjustatheistsuffering One wears one's mind out in study, and yet has more mind with which to study. One gives away one's heart in love and yet has more heart to give away. One perishes out of pity for a suffering world, and is stronger therefore. So, too, it is possible at one and the same time to hold on to life and let go. Milton Steinberg letting-goheartgiving Jewish nationalism means no more than recognition of the peoplehood of Israel, and of the propriety of that people's being a religio-cultural group in America, a nationality in Eastern Europe, and in Palestine an actualized nation. Milton Steinberg israeleuropemean Anti-Zionists, last of all, exhibit a distaste for certain words. It was Thomas Hobbes who, anticipating semantics, pointed out that words are counters, not coins; that the wise man looks through them to reality. This counsel many anti-Zionists seem to have neglected. They are especially disturbed by the two nouns nationalism and commonwealth, and by the adjective political. And yet these terms on examination are not at all upsetting. Milton Steinberg wisemenreality Similar Authors Alexander Schindler rabbi Berel Wein rabbi Benjamin Blech rabbi Israel Meir Kagan rabbi Isaac Mayer Wise rabbi Irving Greenberg rabbiAll Authors
