Abraham Isaac Kook famous quotes

03-26-2025

The purely righteous do not complain of the dark, but increase the light; they do not complain of evil, but increase justice; they do not complain of heresy, but increase faith; they do not complain of ignorance, but increase wisdom.
-- Abraham Isaac Kook

#Ignorance #Dark #Light
When the spirit shines, even foggy skies make pleasant light.
-- Abraham Isaac Kook

#Light #Sky #Shining
The higher the truth, the simpler it is.
-- Abraham Isaac Kook

#Higher
The delight of the Torah is ignited by an inner awareness. A man begins to sense the great tapestry of each letter and point. Every concept and content, every notion and idea, of every spiritual movement, of every vibration, intellectual and emotional, from the immediate and general to the distant and detailed, from matters lofty, spiritual, and ethical according to their outward profile, to matters practical, obligatory, seemingly frightening, and forceful, and at the same time complex and full of content and great mental exertion - all together become known by a supernal holy awareness.
-- Abraham Isaac Kook

#Spiritual #Men #Emotional
We are great and our faults are great and therefore our problems great and great are our consolations.
-- Abraham Isaac Kook

#Faults #Problem #Consolation
The good will is all â€” and all the talents are ways to fulfill it.
-- Abraham Isaac Kook

#Way #Talent
We forgot we have Holy Body not less than our Holy Spirit.
-- Abraham Isaac Kook

#Body #Spirit #Holy Spirit
Our generation is wonderful generation, full of wonder. It's very hard to find an example of it in all our history. Composed of contradictions â€” light and darkness mixed.
-- Abraham Isaac Kook

#Light #Our Generation #Darkness
An epiphany enables you to sense creation not as something completed, but as constantly becoming, evolving, ascending. This transports you from a place where there is nothing new to a place where there is nothing old, where everything renews itself, where heaven and earth rejoice as at the moment of creation.
-- Abraham Isaac Kook

#Heaven #Becoming #Earth
The Second Temple was destroyed because of causeless hatred. Perhaps the Third will be rebuilt because of causeless love.
-- Abraham Isaac Kook

#Hatred #Temples #Thirds
A tiny remnant of a big thing is better than a whole little thing.
-- Abraham Isaac Kook

#Littles #Tiny #Little Things

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