I have read an Islamic quote that I like very much: "All praise is due to Allah; all the mistakes have been mine."
Can anyone think of a Jewish source that expresses a similar concept?
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3Down votes without reasons . . . great. – Mike Feb 16 '14 at 18:17
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Mike, re "Down votes without reasons", see meta.judaism.stackexchange.com/a/146, especially: "down-voting is simply that the reader did not find the answer 'useful' - this doesn't necessarily indicate a problem that needs to be stated in a comment". The down-arrow on questions, too, has "not useful" as a reason in the tooltip. I can see why people would say that about this Q (though I didn't vote on it myself): it states no use for the info it seeks except comparative religion ("Islamic quote") and your own personal preference ("I like"), and people probably don't find those two useful. – msh210♦ Feb 17 '14 at 7:08
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4I understood that Mike was asking for a Torah source for a nice concept that he had read so that he could "like" and quote the Torah source instead of a non-Torah source, and thus the question is very useful and lovable, and should be upvoted wholeheartedly! – user4523 Feb 17 '14 at 11:14
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@msh210 I think I understand. – Mike Feb 18 '14 at 2:44
"The Rock, His work is perfect; for all His ways are justice; a God of faithfulness and without iniquity, righteous and just is He. Is corruption His? No; His children's is the blemish" - Deuteronomy 32:4
The posuk in Nechemiah 9:33 says the same thing:
וְאַתָּה צַדִּיק עַל כָּל-הַבָּא עָלֵינוּ: כִּי-אֱמֶת עָשִׂיתָ וַאֲנַחְנוּ הִרְשָׁעְנוּ.
"You are just in all that has come upon us; for You have dealt truly and we have done wickedly."
Also Pharaoh proclaimed in Shemos 9:27:
ה' הַצַּדִּיק וַאֲנִי וְעַמִּי הָרְשָׁעִים.
"The Lord is the righteous One, and I and my people are the guilty ones."
