“For thousands of years, we Jews have been nourished and sustained by a yearning for our historic land. I, like many others, was raised with a deep conviction that the day would never come when we would have to relinquish parts of the land of our forefathers. I believed and to this day still believe in our people's eternal and historic right to this entire land.” PeopleYearsBelieveHas BeensStillsI BelieveLandEternalRaisedJewConvictionThis DayYearningHistoricForefathers Author:Ehud Olmert
“Freedom is like holding a small bird. If you squeeze it too hard, you will kill it. But if you don't hold it firmly enough, it will fly away. Indeed, freedom can be both fragile and elusive, and so-as the McCormick Tribune Freedom Museum so powerfully reminds us-it requires our eternal vigilance, our willingness, our ability, our conviction to stand up for that which we think is right.” IfsThinkingHardEnoughAbilityEternalBirdConvictionWillingnessMuseumsFragileElusiveVigilanceFly AwayEternal Vigilance Author:Alex Kotlowitz
“Nothing keeps people together like the exalted conviction that they alone are to be spared that eternal anguish of hell fire to which everyone else will be condemned.” PeopleTogetherHellFireEternalConvictionAnguishExaltedHell Fire Author:Polly Toynbee
“I refuse to turn to theology to justify the life or redeem it. There is a question always of the connection to the eternal. I say to myself above all, keep alive your conviction that there are sacred elements in the life in the practice of the life that must be respected. But the conviction in the existence of the sacred does not necessarily imply that you need to believe in a creator, because we are the ones that made the sacred.” NeedsBelieveDoeMadeTurnsExistencePracticeAliveElementsEternalConnectionsSacredRefuseConvictionCreatorTheologyJustify Author:Stanley Kunitz