"Fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom." ~~ Proverbs (Mishle) 111:10
"Who has no faith would be better off unborn." ~~ Bachya
"Faith is beyond intelligence and perception." ~~ Shneur Zalman, Tanya
"There may be men whose faith preceded their religion, that is, they come to religion from faith. With others religion was first, so that their faith is a dictate of it." ~~ Yesha’yahu Leibovitch
"For the pious, Paradise exists everywhere." ~~ Disraeli
"A man should believe in God through faith, not because of miracles." ~~ Nachman of Bratslav
"The Messiah, son of David, will only come in a generation that is neither wholly righteous nor wholly wrong." ~~ Talmud, Sanhedrin
"Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters. " ~~ Isaac Bashevis Singer
"Religion is not, at the outset, a refuge of grace and mercy for the despondent and desperate, an enchanted stream for crushed spirits, but a raging, clamorous torrent of man’s consciousness, with all its crises, pangs, and torments. " ~~ Rav Yosef Dov Soloveitchik
"The Redemption to come will be as great a marvel as Creation." ~~ Isaac Abravanel
"The division of Judaism into “Orthodox,” “Conservative,” “Reform,” etc., is artificial. For all Jews have one and the same Torah, given by the one and same G-d, though there are more observant Jews and less observant Jews. To tag on a label does not, of course, change the reality of Jewish essence." ~~ Rebbe Menachem Schneerson
"The purely righteous do not complain about evil, rather they add justice. They do not complain about heresy, rather they add faith. They do not complain about ignorance, rather they add wisdom. " ~~ Rav Avraham Yitzchak Kook
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