Leviticus Quotes

• At least when the Emperor Justinian, a sky-god man, decided to outlaw sodomy, he had to come up with a good practical reason, which he did. It is well known, Justinian declared, that buggery is a principal cause of earthquakes, and so must be prohibited. But our sky-godders, always eager to hate, still quote Leviticus, as if that looney text had anything useful to say about anything except, perhaps, the inadvisability of eating shellfish in the Jerusalem area.

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  Gore Vidal

  "America First? America Last? America at Last?". Lowell Lecture, Harvard University, April 20, 1992.

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• Ecclesiastes names thee Almighty, the Maccabees name thee Creator, the Epistle to the Ephesians names thee Liberty, Baruch names thee Immensity, the Psalms name thee Wisdom and Truth, John names thee Light, the Book of Kings names thee Lord, Exodus names thee Providence, Leviticus Sanctity, Esdras Justice, creation names thee God, man names thee Father; but Solomon names thee Compassion, which is the most beautiful of all thy names.

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  Victor Hugo

  Victor Hugo (1980). “Les misérables”, Viking Pr

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• Which passages of scripture should guide our public policy? Should we go with Leviticus, which suggests slavery is OK and that eating shellfish is an abomination? Or we could go with Deuteronomy, which suggests stoning your child if he strays from the faith?

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  Barack Obama

  Barack Obama (2009). “Barack Obama: Speeches on the Road to the White House”

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• If you like comedy, go home and curl up with Leviticus. The writers of The Onion are handed Leviticus on their first day.

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  Nick Offerman

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• Without love even the most radical devotion to God is of no value to Him. Let me make sure that sinks in… You can gain all the spiritual gifts in the world. You can take the most radical steps of obedience. You can share every meal with the homeless in your city. You can memorize the book of Leviticus. You can pray each morning for four hours like Martin Luther. But if what you do does not flow out of a heart of love - a heart that does those things because it genuinely desires to do them - it is ultimately worthless to God.

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  J. D. Greear

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• If you just read Leviticus on the surface, you may think it's just a bunch of grumpy irrelevant rules; but, it's actually the way God gave his people access to himself.

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  Jennifer Rothschild

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• Behold the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world!

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  John the Baptist

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• Well the book of Leviticus and Deuteronomy, the law of the jungle and the sea are your only teachers.

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  Bob Dylan

  Song: Jokerman, Album: Infidels, 1983

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• People write to me all the time to tell me that "homosexuality is an abomination." They base this on a quote in Leviticus. I think the Bible has proved to be a very mysterious and dangerous document.

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  Anne Rice

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