Top 5 Quotes & Sayings by Robert Gordis

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American rabbi Robert Gordis.

Last updated on December 22, 2024.

Robert Gordis was an American leading Conservative rabbi. He founded the first Conservative Jewish day school, served as President of the Rabbinical Assembly and the Synagogue Council of America, and was a professor at Jewish Theological Seminary of America from 1940 to 1992.

American - Rabbi | Born: February 6, 1908

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... on every important issue life transcends logic and it is folly to depend on reason alone.

Robert Gordis

Institutions are essential in order to preserve the achievement of the past, but the original creative impulse in every age comes from the amateur, the rebel, the breaker of idols.

Robert Gordis

Those humble but indomitable workers, to whom later generations referred by the collective name of Baale Masorah, Masters of Tradition, performed in obscurity their Herculean task of guarding the Biblical Text against loss or variation.

Robert Gordis

Pride is a deeply rooted ailment of the soul. The penalty is misery; the remedy lies in the sincere, life-long cultivation of humility, which means true self-evaluation and a proper perspective toward past, present and future.

Robert Gordis

... what counts in life usually cannot be counted.

Robert Gordis

Top 5 Quotes & Sayings by Robert Gordis

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