Faith

Not with depression, not with fearfulness, not with sentimental weakness must we turn to the divine light, but with a clear knowledge that what flows from the depths of our heart to approach God is a natural, complete and healthy faculty. It is more than just a natural faculty—it is the basic, natural faculty of our soul. It emerges in us from the soul of the Life of all worlds, from the soul of all existence, of all being.

Orot Ha'emunah, p. 80

Generally speaking, faith is the poem of life, the poem of existence, the poem of being. The poetic spirit is the most deeply penetrating feeling. Within our inner being, it delves most profoundly into the nature of what we aspire to, in a manner that prose cannot achieve. The true lens of life, therefore, is within the poem of life—but not in merely temporal life, whose expression is prose. Woe to the person who wishes to deprive life of the glory of its poetry. Such a person destroys the entire content of life and all the truth within it.

Orot Ha'emunah, p. 40

A person upon whom the light of faith is revealed in its purity loves all people, with no exceptions whatsoever. His only desire is their elevation and repair. The avenues of their repair become genuinely moral and true in accordance with the expression of faith in his heart.

Orot Ha'emunah, p. 44

At times, there may be found a non-believer who has a strong, inner, shining faith that gushes from the holy, supernal wellspring, more than thousands of believers with a meager faith. This may exist in individuals or in generations. Regarding all these, the verse declares, "The righteous person will live by his faith."

Orot Ha'Emunah, p. 21