«Jerusalem»

Without Jerusalem, the land of Israel is as a body without a soul.

Elhanan Leib Lewinsky

I would never call Jerusalem beautiful or comfortable or consoling. But there’s something about it that you can’t turn away from.

Pico Iyer

Eternity means Jerusalem.

Talmud, Tractate Berachot

Jerusalem is a festival and a lamentation. Its song is a sigh across the ages, a delicate, robust, mournful psalm at the great junction of spiritual cultures.

David K. Shipler

For out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.

Isaiah 2:3

I come to Jerusalem. There, the sky is blue and memory becomes clear.

Menachem Begin

You ought to let the Jews have Jerusalem; it was they who made it famous.

Winston Churchill

Jerusalem is united, will never be divided again.

Yitzhak Rabin

No city in the world, not even Athens or Rome, ever played as great a role in the life of a nation for so long a time, as Jerusalem has done in the life of the Jewish people.

David Ben-Gurion

In the din and tumult of the age, the still small voice of Jerusalem remains our only music.

Israel Zangwill

Pray for the peace of Jerusalem.

Psalms 122:6

Pray for Jerusalem, The City of GOD; The City of Peace; The City of King David; The Biblical and Historical Capital City of The Blessed Sovereign Nation of Israel.

Errol Anthony Smythe

For three thousand years, Jerusalem has been the center of Jewish hope and longing. No other city has played such a dominant role in the history, culture, religion and consciousness of a people as has Jerusalem in the life of Jewry and Judaism. Throughout centuries of exile, Jerusalem remained alive in the hearts of Jews everywhere as the focal point of Jewish history, the symbol of ancient glory, spiritual fulfillment and modern renewal. This heart and soul of the Jewish people engenders the thought that if you want one simple word to symbolize all of Jewish history, that word would be ‘Jerusalem.’

Teddy Kollek

Jerusalem is a port city on the shore of eternity.

Yehuda Amichai