4 Quotes & Sayings By Haim Shapira

Haim Shapira is the author of the best-selling Yiddish novel, "The Young Lion of Warsaw," and several other novels. He was born in Lithuania in 1874 and immigrated to America in 1898. He was a popular lecturer and writer on Jewish themes, and was granted a special audience with President Franklin D. Roosevelt.

It is not really hard to do nothing. Many can....
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It is not really hard to do nothing. Many can. The hard part is doing nothing without feeling guilty about it. Haim Shapira
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Between the natural way and the path of grace there is a deep abyss. It is in that gap that we live our lives as a giant struggle between good and evil, Satan and God, despair and love. Whenever despair wins, it is the natural way. Whenever love wins, it is a moment of grace. When love is victorious and defeats despair completely, you've reached the path of grace. Haim Shapira
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Ordinary people who live their lives peacefully, whose days gently resemble each other, may happen one day to stop and wonder why and what for do they do the things they do and have been doing for so many years? Haim Shapira