« There is a collective memory of God in the human spirit, and it is this memory which is the main source of our faith. »

― Abraham Joshua Heschel

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« Faith is a force in man, lying deeper than the stratum of reason and its nature cannot be defined in abstract, static terms. »

― Abraham Joshua Heschel

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« Faith is not a mechanical insurance but a dynamic, personal act, flowing between the heart of man and the love of God. »

― Abraham Joshua Heschel

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« Faith opens our hearts for the entrance of the holy. »

― Abraham Joshua Heschel

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« Those who trust develop a finer sense for the good, even at the hight cost of blighted hopes. Charmed by the spell of love, faith is, as it were, imposed upon their heart. »

― Abraham Joshua Heschel

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« Faith is something that comes out of the soul. It is not an information that is absorbed but an attitude, existing prior to the formulation of any creed. »

― Abraham Joshua Heschel

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« In the realm of faith, God is not a hypothesis derived from logical assumptions, but an immediate insight, self-evident as light. To rationalists He is something after which they seek in the darkness with the light of their reason. To men of faith He is the light. »

― Abraham Joshua Heschel

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« Those who are open to the wonder will not miss it. Faith is found in solicitude for faith, in an inner care for the wonder that is everywhere. »

― Abraham Joshua Heschel

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« Faith is sensitiveness to what transcends nature, knowledge and will, awareness of the ultimate, alertness to the holy dimension of all reality. »

― Abraham Joshua Heschel

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