Quotes About Faith

If a Jew tell a lie because the truth of his faith cannot be tolerated by those around him, shouldn't one then prosecute the world rather than the Jew?

The words of prayer are like birds, Ester," he said gently. "They soar.

And a reminder too of the sole faith that still offered her a semblance of comfort-- the faith that history, soulless god though it was, never failed to offer what must be understood.

I do not refute the divine, but only its false depiction, and my thinking is maligned by any who say otherwise.

Do not consider then, however learned you are, that your knowledge is complete. For learning is the river of G-d and we drink of it throughout our lives.

I beg of you to rest, to seek healing of the spirit and healing of the body. Our life is a walk in the night, we know not how great the distance to the dawn that awaits us. And the path is strewn with stumbling blocks and our bodies are grown tyrannous with weeping yet we lift our feet. We lift our feet. With the help of G-d, R.

What had drawn a non-Jewish woman of her generation to this obscure life as a specialist in Jewish studies?

Some women, Ester, like to believe their hearts are made of glass, which must shatter if they so much as think of a sin. Oh Ester, shatter

It is an error not only of soul but also of body, for they that muster for the next world before it has come can only betray their lives in this one.

It is not God's will," Aaron quoted, "that Jews should wager on the Messiah as dicers will.

Yet a moment later she resumed walking with the air of someone too depleted for skepticism—her defeat displaced, unaccountably, by trust.

he no longer had enough faith in anger's utility to pursue its course.

When any man of any nation cries out in his wish to know God, then his questions merit considering.

I told her: I act such that love will not fail again as it failed us before.

Hope against reason: an opiate she'd long abandoned.

It's good to be reminded that cities and states, courts and armies, writing and figuring, temples and cathedrals, all depended on those who stood to pound and knelt to grind.

Belief traps or frees us.

I lost myself, but in the end that helped me find myself. You've just got to have faith and work at it." "With anything?" I ask. "Anything," she says, as a gap finally opens in the intersection. "As long as you accept the hardest thing of all: that you might have to lose to win.

There is something that mankind can never destroy in spite of an unreasoning will to destruction, and this is its own idealism, that integral part of its very being.

A la Virgen María: Que eres mi timonel, que eres la guía de mi oculta sirena cantadora, escrito está en la frente de la proa de mi navío, al Sol del mediodía

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Discourse about God is radically different from every l other discourse on every other subject because God is not an object. Were God to be spoken of as object, God would become nothing more than an idol.

For a long time things were so bad. Very bad. Dark even when there was light. The only thing that kept the dark back was the Forever Shiny Thing that was her secret... It is a word...the word hangs on a silver chain. The word is HOPE.

If you live your life with imagination and verve, God will play along just to see what outrageously entertaining thing you'll do next. He'll also cut you some slack if you're astonishingly stupid in an amusing fashion. Granny claimed that this explains why uncountable millions of breathtakingly stupid people get along just fine in life.