Faith (n.) is an awareness of divine mutuality and companionship, a form of communion between God and man which is not a psychical quality, something that exists in the mind only, but a force from the beyond.
Faith (n.) is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart involving audacious longing, burning songs, and daring thoughts that overwhelm the heart and usurp the mind.
Faith (n.) is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
Faith (n.) comes out of the soul. It is not an information that is absorbed but an attitude, existing prior to the formulation of any creed.
Faith (n.) opens our hearts for the entrance of the holy, making it almost as though God were thinking for us.
Faith (n.) is an act of memory, a loyalty to things that happened, rather than a signature beneath a list of doctrines.
Faith (n.) is lifelong guardianship of an echo that once broke into the depths of the soul.
Faith (n.) is God's seed sown in the soul, so that a pious Jew at prayer felt his speech to God was God speaking to Himself.
Faith (n.) is never owned outright; it has to be won again at every single moment.
Faith (n.) is not placed in deeds but reached by them; Jews arrive at their faith by living as Jews.
Faith (n.) starts where the possible stops, which makes Judaism the art of the impossible.
Faith (n.) in any one heart is only a wave in humanity's endless ocean of reaching toward God.
Faith (n.) grows only in privacy; put the inner life on display and it is desecrated.
Faith (n.) is never an arrival but a pilgrimage that does not end.
Faith (n.) draws its strength from silence, from words that hibernate and wait; spoken faith is silence overflowing.
Faith (n.) is less agreement with propositions than awareness of living inside a holy dimension, the Covenant.
Faith (n.) needs both certainty and trial: certainty alone breeds complacency, trial alone breeds chaos.
Faith (n.) is a tall ladder whose rungs sometimes seem to vanish beneath you.
Faith (n.) kept as an heirloom instead of drawn from as a spring has nothing left to say.
Faith (n.) is steadfastness despite failure, never won easily or kept without strain.