It is
better to be a fool who believes in everything than to be so clever that you do
not believe in anything.
If you
believe in everything, some of your beliefs may be foolish but you will also
believe in the truth. However, when a person is too clever and does not want to
believe in anything, he may begin by ridiculing falsehood and folly but can
easily end up so skeptical of everything that he even denies the truth.
Sichot Haran #103
There
are many searching questions about God. But it is only fitting and proper that
this should be so. Indeed, such questions enhance the greatness of God and show
His exaltedness. God is so great and exalted that He is beyond our ability to
understand Him. It is obviously impossible for us, with limited human
intelligence to understand His ways. Inevitably there are things that baffle
us, and this is only fitting. If God’s ways were in accordance with the limits of
our meager understanding, there would be no difference between His understanding
and ours, and this is inconceivable.
Likutey Moharan II, 52
If you
ask a believer to explain why he has faith, he will certainly not be able to
give you a reason, because faith is applicable only where one does not understand
the reason. Yet, because of his complete faith, whatever the believer himself
believes in is perfectly clear and self-evident as if he sees it with his own
eyes.
Likutey Moharan, I, 62
When
you have faith, every day is filled with good. When things go well, it is
certainly good. But even if things go wrong and you suffer, this is also good.
For you trust that God will have mercy and will eventually send good. Everything
must be good, because everything comes from God.
A
person who lacks faith is not truly alive, because as soon as something bad
happens he gives up all hope. He has no way to comfort himself because, having no
faith, he has placed himself outside God’s providence and therefore, for him,
there is no good at all.
If you
have faith, you will have a good and beautiful life.
Sichot Haran #53
TAKE FROM ESSENTIAL RABBI NACHMAN
EDITED BY: AZAMRA INSTITUTE
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