{"quotes":[{"text":"Sol wanted to know how any ethical system – much less a religion so indomitable that it had survived every evil mankind could throw at it – could flow from a command from God for a man to slaughter his son. It did not matter to Sol that the command had been rescinded at the last moment. It did not matter that the command was a test of obedience. In fact, the idea that it was the obedience of Abraham which allowed him to become the father of all the tribes of Israel was precisely what drove Sol into fits of fury.","author":"Dan Simmons","tags":["abraham","ethics","god","obedience"],"id":1402,"author_id":"Dan+Simmons"},{"text":"Take the first A out of Abraham and put it at the end. You get Brahama. There’s the ancient connection right there.","author":"Ashwin Sanghi","tags":["abraham","brahma","mythology","theology"],"id":55966,"author_id":"Ashwin+Sanghi"},{"text":"Your frequency is what you frequently see. Pay attention to synchronicity as there are valuable lessons to be learned in the repetition of your reality.","author":"Jennifer Sodini","tags":["abraham","abraham-hicks","collective-consciousness","consciousness","cosmic-consciousness","frequency","law-of-attraction","spirituality","synchronicity","the-secret","vibration"],"id":57863,"author_id":"Jennifer+Sodini"},{"text":"If you have the blessings of Abraham in your life, then you should also have his obedience, humility and ability to submit to others.","author":"Sunday Adelaja","tags":["ability","abraham","blessing","humility","life","obedience","submit"],"id":60618,"author_id":"Sunday+Adelaja"},{"text":"I tried to close my ears to the strange worshipful chanting and fix my mind on God, but the Egyptians’ idolatry weighed down my weary shoulders and brought tears to my closed eyes.","author":"Kristen Reed","tags":["abraham","abram","bible","christian","christianity","egypt","genesis","god","gods","pharaoh","sarah","sarai"],"id":69203,"author_id":"Kristen+Reed"},{"text":"Abraham had eight sons--not one. All eight sons bring something to the table. Abraham loved all of his sons. He was a good father who made sure all his sons were literate, of good character and shared a common ideology with their father, Abraham. Abraham did good. Where did we go wrong?Pg 54.","author":"Michael Ben Zehabe","tags":["abraham","forgiveness","interfaith","isaac","muslims","peace","prejudice","religious-intolerance","shulamite","song-of-solomon","song-of-songs","sons-of-abraham"],"id":77652,"author_id":"Michael+Ben+Zehabe"},{"text":"We encounter God in the face of a stranger. That, I believe, is the Hebrew Bible’s single greatest and most counterintuitive contribution to ethics. God creates difference; therefore it is in one-who-is-different that we meet god. Abraham encounters God when he invites three strangers into his tent.","author":"Jonathan Sacks","tags":["abraham","difference","ethics","god","strangers"],"id":107501,"author_id":"Jonathan+Sacks"},{"text":"For a brief moment the previous day, I’d felt a flicker of kinship with him because of my own barrenness, but he brandished his brokenness like a sword, ready to cut anyone who displeased him because someone in Pharaoh’s household had once cut him.","author":"Kristen Reed","tags":["abraham","abram","bible","christian","christianity","eunuch","fiction","genesis","sarah","sarai"],"id":108958,"author_id":"Kristen+Reed"},{"text":"Should one of them after having caught the greatness of Abraham's deed, but also the appallingness of it, venture out on the road, I would saddle my horse and ride along with him. At every stop before we came to the mountain in Moriah I would explain to him that he could still turn back, could rue the misunderstanding that he was called to be tried in a conflict of this nature, could confess that he lacked the courage, so that if God wanted Isaac God must take him himself.","author":"Johannes de Silentio","tags":["abraham","faith","isaac","kierkegaard"],"id":127411,"author_id":"Johannes+de+Silentio"},{"text":"It was a black and hooded head; and hanging there in the midst of so intense a calm, it seemed the Sphynx’s in the desert. “Speak, thou vast and venerable head,” muttered Ahab, “which, though ungarnished with a beard, yet here and there lookest hoary with mosses; speak, mighty head, and tell us the secret thing that is in thee. Of all divers, thou hast dived the deepest. That head upon which the upper sun now gleams, has moved amid this world’s foundations. Where unrecorded names and navies rust, and untold hopes and anchors rot; where in her murderous hold this frigate earth is ballasted with bones of millions of the drowned; there, in that awful water-land, there was thy most familiar home. Thou hast been where bell or diver never went; hast slept by many a sailor’s side, where sleepless mothers would give their lives to lay them down. Thou saw’st the locked lovers when leaping from their flaming ship; heart to heart they sank beneath the exulting wave; true to each other, when heaven seemed false to them. Thou saw’st the murdered mate when tossed by pirates from the midnight deck; for hours he fell into the deeper midnight of the insatiate maw; and his murderers still sailed on unharmed—while swift lightnings shivered the neighboring ship that would have borne a righteous husband to outstretched, longing arms. O head! Thou hast seen enough to split the planets and make an infidel of Abraham, and not one syllable is thine!","author":"Herman Melville","tags":["abraham","ahab","death","hell","herman-melville","infidel","lovers","melville","moby-dick","pirates"],"id":158934,"author_id":"Herman+Melville"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":26,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}