Hanukkah quotes

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◆ It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.

- Chinese Proverb100

◆ Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.

- Buddha99

◆ Allow me to summarize the heroic Jewish uprising against the banning of our religion by mumbling a prayer written in phonetic Hebrew.

- 99

◆ Don't forget to purchase token Hanukkah decorations so your holiday party doesn't seem racist.

- 99

◆ Happy Hanukkah to someone spending eight days subtly trying to conceal their Judaism.

- 99

◆ Sorry the closest your holiday comes to a spiritual figurehead is Adam Sandler

- 99

◆ Kindle the taper like the steadfast star Ablaze on evening's forehead o'er the earth, And add each night a lustre till afar An eightfold splendor shine above thy hearth.

- Emma Lazarus99

◆ Colorful candles burning bright, each lit on eight very special nights.

- 99

◆ May the lights of Hanukkah usher in a better world for all humankind.

- 99

◆ Eight days the light continued on its own: A miracle, they say, but not more so Than ordinary lives of flesh and bone, Consuming wicks burned ashen long ago...

- Nicholas Gordon99

◆ Blessed is the match consumed in kindling flame Blessed is the flame that burns in the secret fastness of the heart.

- Hannah Senesh99

◆ To me every hour of the light and dark is a miracle, Every cubic inch of space is a miracle.

- Walt Whitman99

◆ May love and light fill your home and heart at Hanukkah.

- 99

◆ The darkness of the whole world cannot swallow the glowing of a candle.

- Robert Altinger99

◆ Still ours the dance, the feast, the glorious Psalm, the mystic lights of emblem, and the Word.

- Emma Lazarus99