Faith Quotes

Belief in something greater, whether divine, human, or simply possible.

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"The impossible is precisely what God alone can do."
Weil, Simone
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"To wait for grace is to wait without the assurance of waiting."
Weil, Simone
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"Union with the divine is achieved not through the mind but through the heart."
Weil, Simone
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"Grace is the inverse of gravity; it pulls us upward when we have given up the struggle."
Weil, Simone
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"The widow, the orphan, the stranger—the faces of God."
Levinas, Emmanuel
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"Revelation is not a completed event but an ongoing encounter between the divine and the human."
Rosenzweig, Franz
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"Being Jewish means participating in an eternal conversation across generations."
Rosenzweig, Franz
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"The infinite is not a concept but a living presence."
Rosenzweig, Franz
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"The absolute cannot be spoken, only lived."
Rosenzweig, Franz
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"The divine is not a distant object but intimately present."
Rosenzweig, Franz
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"Faith is the affirmation without proof, hope without guarantee."
Blanchot, Maurice
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"The eternal Thou can by its nature not become It."
Buber, Martin
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"The You encounters me through grace—it cannot be found by seeking."
Buber, Martin
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"Faith is the soul's venture into the unseen."
Buber, Martin
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"To turn to another with openness is to turn toward the divine."
Buber, Martin
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"In the between—the space between I and Thou—the sacred resides."
Buber, Martin
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"The sacred is encountered in the concrete present moment with another."
Buber, Martin
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"The sacred reveals itself in the between, in genuine meeting."
Buber, Martin
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"To experience the sacred, one must abandon the comfort of rational thought."
Bataille, Georges
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"The sacred emerges where reason dissolves into ecstasy."
Bataille, Georges
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"The sacred is what we have most deeply repressed."
Bataille, Georges
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"Faith without action is merely hope."
Gramsci, Antonio
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"Faith without reason degenerates into superstition."
Lukács, György
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"Transcendence means the other is radically other, infinitely distant."
Levinas, Emmanuel
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"The Infinite is not a concept but an experience of being overwhelmed by otherness."
Levinas, Emmanuel
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"The infinite cannot appear; it can only be invoked through the other."
Levinas, Emmanuel
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"The infinite recedes as it approaches; it remains always transcendent."
Levinas, Emmanuel
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"The trace of the Infinite cannot be grasped, only followed."
Levinas, Emmanuel
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"The trace of transcendence appears in every ethical act."
Levinas, Emmanuel
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"The divine appears in the ethical relation, not in sacred spaces."
Levinas, Emmanuel