The Jewish Wisdom Database

Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters.

I have not lost faith in God. I have moments of anger and protest. Sometimes I've been closer to Him for that reason.

The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.

The exiles will be gathered in only at the price of faith.

There can be no faith without truth.

Faith is the essence of Torah.

There is nothing greater than faith.

Faith is wisdom and wisdom faith.

Who has no faith would be better off unborn.

Faith is the root and foundation of all holiness.

Faith is beyond intelligence and perception.

Faith is not a series of theorems but a way of life.

The fear of the Lord is pure and abides for ever.

Fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom.

Everything is in God's hands save fear of God.

No one lifts a finger on earth unless it is so decreed in heaven.

No wisdom, no understanding, no counsel can avail against the Lord.

There is no love without total faith.

The Messiah, son of David, will only come in a generation that is neither wholly righteous nor wholly wrong.

It is not the believer, but the non-believer, who asks for a miracle and depends on it.

The greater your need, the nearer is God.

Abandon me not when I grow old!

A man should always be in the habit of saying: Whatever God did, He did for the best.

It is all for the best.

For the pious, Paradise exists everywhere.