Judah Halevi

"Thou must not deem it improbable that exalted divine traces should be visible in this material world, when this matter is prepared to receive them. Here are to be found the roots of faith as well as of unbelief"

"Divine Providence only gives man as much as he is prepared to receive; if his receptive capacity be small, he obtains little, and much if it be great."

"One of the greatest Hebrew poets, Judah ha-Levi was also an anti-rationalist. His chief work, , was a dialogue in defense of Judaism, attempting to show the superiority of to reasoned truth. He pointed out the dependence of Christianity and Islam upon Judaism; he regarded the as possessed of a unique religious sense and Palestine as an unequalled region."

"According to our view a servant of God is not one who detaches himself from the world, lest he be a burden to it, and it to him; or hates life, which is one of Gods bounties granted to him."

"The pious man is nothing but a prince who is obeyed by his senses, and by his mental as well as his physical faculties"

"This means that Jerusalem can only be rebuilt when Israel yearns for it to such an extent that they embrace her stones and dust."