Quotes from Israel Shenker

Theology emerged not as a course of knowledge but as a feast of homily and imagination and exaggeration in which every man could find his image and his portion. And yet there were limits.

It was God who dictated what man should believe and do, leaving man the freedom to accept or scoff, to obey or disregard.

God's greatest blessing is children. The only problem is that you have to support them. It's a problem, not a disadvantage.

Monotheism owes its existence not to philosophic speculation about the nature of reality or knowledge or virtue, but to acceptance of reality identified with a supreme being.

The unlettered man who prayed to his maker would be heard; the pedant reciting a faultless invocation would be ignored.