The faith that stands on authority is not faith.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Quotations
Faith
Faith is to believe what we do not see; and the reward of this faith is to see what we believe.
-Saint Augustine of Hippo
To follow by faith alone is to follow blindly.
-Benjamin Franklin
What a person believes is not as important as how a person believes.
-Anonymous
If faith in ourselves had been more extensively taught and practiced, I am sure a very large portion of the evils and miseries that we have would have vanished.
-Swami Vivekananda
The eloquent man is he who is no beautiful speaker, but who is inwardly and desperately drunk with a certain belief.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe so that you may understand.
-Saint Augustine of Hippo
The faith of every man, O Arjuna, accords with his nature, Man is made up of faith; as is his faith, so is he. The threefold austerity practiced with faith by men of balanced mind, without any expectation of reward, is said to be pure.
-Srimad Bhagavad Gita "Bhagwad Gita 17.3"
It is always more difficult to fight against faith than against knowledge.
-Adolf Hitler
Without faith there is no knowledge, without knowledge there is no virtuous conduct, without virtues there is no deliverance, and without deliverance there is no perfection.
-Scriptures "Uttaradhyayana Sutra 28.30"
