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Unless you believe, you shall not understand.

— Augustine of Hippo

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« Vision Of Saint Augustine » by Feliks Michał Wygrzywalski

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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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« Saint Augustine » by Philippe de Champaigne

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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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« Inner Light » by Samuël Levy

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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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« The Love Of God » by Georgiana Houghton

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Faith opens our hearts for the entrance of the holy.

— Abraham Joshua Heschel

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« L'Adorazione » (Adoration) by Fillìa

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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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« The Soul Hovering Over The Body » by William Blake

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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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« La Foi » (Faith) by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

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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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Captors of fire, 1938, Nicholas Roerich

Medium: canvas,tempera

https://www.wikiart.org/en/nicholas-roerich/captors-of-fire-1938

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Wikipedia : Nicholas Roerich

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Second Coming

o pray do tell what is that spell you are under that you would fell your own brother and of murder applaud the knell on passover

can you still claim « in god we trust » can you still preach « love thy neighbour » or do your faith you now squander on weaponry and golden dust

o please tell me how good could be of coming back a prophecy borne of attack that would hijack humanity in the blowback

the messiah would be distraught at how the cross brought no payback as you praise sin behind his back and contradict all he has taught

please formulate how such a fate predicated on so much hate fabricated through plotted death bringing justice to its last breath could validate any true faith and vindicate a nation's wraith

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