Daniel Lapin Quotes

United States, Rabbi
January 1, 1947

Daniel Lapin is an American Orthodox rabbi, author, and public speaker who heads the "American Alliance of Jews and Christians". He was previously the founding rabbi of the Pacific Jewish Center in Venice, California, and the former head of Toward Tradition, the Commonwealth Loan Company and the Cascadia Business Institute. Lapin currently hosts a daily television program with his wife, Susan, and provides spiritual advice to people through his website.

Also known as Author, Speaker

Once you admit a lie or a slander into your ears, you can never totally rid yourself of its effects.

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- Lying
- Ears
- Effects
Once Mel Gibson revealed himself to be, like the president, a person of serious religious faith, the gloves came off. Mel Gibson has done a major favor for serious faith, both Jewish and Christian, in America. He has made it "cool" to be religious, but in so doing he has unleashed the hatred of secular America against himself personally, against his work and against his family. God bless him.

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How can our leaders be so hypersensitive to the most microscopic of perceived anti-Jewish slurs, yet so entirely indifferent to flagrant and vicious anti-Christian insults?

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Each person begins life with a head start in some areas and a handicap in other areas.

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- Areas
- Begins
- Handicap
By remaining exactly the same today as you were yesterday, you are guaranteeing that tomorrow will be no better than today.

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- Today
- Tomorrow
- Yesterday
As an Orthodox Jew I must acknowledge that a society can only be successful if it adheres to God's basic plan. By recognizing that a battle is raging and that, right now, Christian conservatives are leading the side I believe is morally, historically, and intellectually correct, I find myself linking arms with those so many of my coreligionists vilify.

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Only recently has part of America challenged the long-held assumption that America is a Christian nation. Most citizens do not recognize just how quickly we have moved in an anti-Christian direction.

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We really have no choice but to pray and encourage a return to an America steeped in Judeo-Christian values. It is either that or taking our chances in a society with no values at all. For all Americans the former carries certain risks, but the latter spells certain doom. For now, we should not be deflected by theological debate from the life-saving tasks awaiting us. There is work to be done. We must ensure that America will continue to be part of God's plan for the world.

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- World
- Done
- Risk

You dramatically increase your value to others if you always maintain a calm and pleasant manner.

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The more that things change, the more we need to depend upon those things that never change.

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- Change
- Things
- Depend