Abraham Isaac Kook

The progress of dynamic ideals will not be eternally blocked. Through general, moral and intellectual advancement... shall the latent aspiration of justice…

— Abraham Isaac Kook

We forgot we have Holy Body not less than our Holy Spirit.

— Abraham Isaac Kook

An epiphany enables you to sense creation not as something completed, but as constantly becoming, evolving, ascending. This transports you from a…

— Abraham Isaac Kook

There are free men with the spirit of a slave, and slaves whose spirit is full of freedom. He who is true…

— Abraham Isaac Kook

I don't speak because I have the power to speak; I speak because I don't have the power to remain silent.

— Abraham Isaac Kook

A tiny remnant of a big thing is better than a whole little thing.

— Abraham Isaac Kook

The purely righteous do not complain of the dark, but increase the light; they do not complain of evil, but increase justice;…

— Abraham Isaac Kook

The desire to be good to all with no restrictions - not in the quantity of those to whom we are good…

— Abraham Isaac Kook

When the spirit shines, even foggy skies make pleasant light.

— Abraham Isaac Kook

One whose soul does not wander in the expanses, one who does not seek the light of truth and goodness with all…

— Abraham Isaac Kook

Contemplate the wonders of creation, the Divine dimension of their being, not as a dim configuration that is presented to you from…

— Abraham Isaac Kook

Our generation is wonderful generation, full of wonder. It's very hard to find an example of it in all our history. Composed…

— Abraham Isaac Kook

The higher the truth, the simpler it is.

— Abraham Isaac Kook

When one looks truly at the good side of everyone, others come to love him very naturally, and he does not need…

— Abraham Isaac Kook

The delight of the Torah is ignited by an inner awareness. A man begins to sense the great tapestry of each letter…

— Abraham Isaac Kook

The Second Temple was destroyed because of causeless hatred. Perhaps the Third will be rebuilt because of causeless love.

— Abraham Isaac Kook

“Many times one is forced to descend to deep, dark regions, in order to find there the greatest, noblest and freest light.”

— Abraham Isaac Kook

The thought of a happiness that comes from outside the person, brings him sadness. But the recognition in the value of one's…

— Abraham Isaac Kook

All the troubles of the world, especially the spiritual, such as grief, impatience, disillusionment, despair, the truly basic troubles of man-they came…

— Abraham Isaac Kook

We are great and our faults are great and therefore our problems great and great are our consolations.

— Abraham Isaac Kook