Ethel Waters — Ethel

Far from having become 1900 years ago a stagnant or dried-up religion, as Christian theology declares, Judaism has ever remained "a river of God full of living waters," which, while running within the river-bed of a single nation, has continued to feed anew the great streams of human civilization.

It was his belief that a witty answer turneth away wrath and that the oil of reason should always be poured on troubled waters.