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Quotes About Jerusalem

A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.
~ Benjamin Disraeli
That can be achieved by termination of Israeli occupation to the territories according to the international resolutions related, so the Palestinian State can be establish with Jerusalem as capital for such State.
~ Ali Abdullah Saleh
When I'm in Jerusalem, I stay at the American Colony Hotel, neutral territory: the secret peace talks of 1992/3 started there.
~ Simon Sebag Montefiore
We must give up Arab neighborhoods in Jerusalem and return to the core of the territory that is the State of Israel prior to 1967, with minor corrections dictated by the reality created since then.
~ Ehud Olmert
And burdened Gentile o'er the main, Must bear the weight of Israel's hate Because he is not brought again In triumph to Jerusalem.
~ Rudyard Kipling
Nehemiah rebuilt the walls of Jerusalem when all the odds were against him. Determination and persistence pulsate through your bloodline.
~ Joel Osteen
The kingdom of God is within us; the whole of the Godhead is to be found within our individual being, not in holy mountains nor yet in the temple at Jerusalem, but within us.
~ Joel S. Goldsmith
It is not being in Jerusalem, but living a good life there that is praiseworthy.
~ St. Jerome
Cyrus became lord of that great realm. His first act was to free all the peoples held in captivity by the Babylonians. Among them were the Jews, who went home to Jerusalem
~ E.H. Gombrich
But like the crusaders, who in the name of piety had carried out that dreadful massacre in Jerusalem, there were many citizens who failed to hear in those penitential sermons a call to mend their ways, and instead learnt to hate all those who didn't share their faith.
~ E.H. Gombrich
never lose sight, as we finger the pain and disillusionment of our after times, of the possibility of a New Jerusalem.
~ Eddie S. Glaude Jr.
Next year in Jerusalem!
~ Anonymous
Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem, and cry unto her, that her warfare is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned: for she hath received of the Lord's hand double for all her sins.The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make straight in the desert a highway for our God.
~ Anonymous
I am black, but comely, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, as the tents of Kedar, as the curtains of Solomon.
~ Anonymous
Now when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judaea in the days of Herod the king, behold, there came wise men from the east to Jerusalem,Saying, Where is he that is born King of the Jews? for we have seen his star in the east, and are come to worship him.
~ Anonymous
O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets, and stonest them which are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would not!
~ Anonymous
Jerusalem, my happy home,When shall I come to thee?When shall my sorrows have an end?Thy joys when shall I see?
~ Anonymous
He knew that it is as difficult for a rich man to go to heaven as it is for a camel to go through the gate in Jerusalem called the Needle's.
~ Ford Madox Ford
When I was living in Jerusalem, I used to write in a coffee shop called Tmol Shilshom. I'd sit at the same table every day and work. And right next to my seat was a weathered wingback chair by a window.
~ Nathan Englander
From Antioch, the crusaders went on their way to Jerusalem to seize the city and massacre everyone in it on 15 July 1099.
~ Roderick Beaton
Heraclius entered Jerusalem on 21 March 630, at the head of a solemn procession
~ Roderick Beaton
The re-establishment of YHWH's temple in Jerusalem was a testimony to God's glory and holiness
~ Andrew E. Hill
I have set watchmen upon thy walls, O Jerusalem, which shall never hold their peace day nor night; ye that make mention of the LORD, do not keep silent and give him no rest, until he establishes, and until he makes Jerusalem a praise in the earth. – Isaiah 62:6-7
~ Andrew Murray
As we go up into the Via Dolorosa, we hear an exciting jingle. Arab boys are racing their donkeys down the hill. You
~ Saul Bellow