54 Quotes About Jerusalem

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.

I was only the more anxious to make Jerusalem a city like the others, where several races and several beliefs could live in peace; but I was wrong to forget that in any combat between fanaticism and common sense the latter has rarely the upper hand.

JOHNNY: Friends! Outcasts. Leeches. Undesirables. A blessing on you, and upon this beggars' banquet. This day we draw a line in the chalk, and push back against the bastard pitiless busybody council, and drive them from this place for ever. I, Rooster Byron, your merciless ruler, have decreed that today all my bounty is bestowed upon you, gratis. There will be free booze, bangers, draw, whizz and whatnot, for all the minions of my kingdom.

The city was a puzzle box built of symbols, a confusion of old and new, armored cars and donkeys in the streets, Bedouins and bankers. The Turks and Haredim, the showy Greek and Russian processions -- everyone seemed to be in costume, reenacting the miraculous past.

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.

It is because you were not allowed to be a normal city with normal people, so much so that you become an abnormal place with abnormal people- Arabs and Jews alike.

I believe that people are holy because they’re made in the image of God, and a place can be holy when God is present—but no place is so holy that it’s worth shedding the blood of those who bear the image of God.

What are the chances that of all 1.59629 quadrillion square feet of physical land on planet Earth, three major world religions are literally fighting over one single rock?

قدِّموا السلاح لبعضكموتعالوا الى القدسحيث المسيح ومحمد يسجنانوالكنيسة والمسجد يهدَّمانوالمسلم والمسيحي يُضطَهدانوالإسلام والمسيحية يُهدَّدانفبأي ألاء ربكما تكذبان؟