A man lives by believing something, not by debating and arguing about many things.
-Thomas Carlyle
Quotations
Faith
Faith keeps many doubts in her pay. If I could not doubt, I should not believe.
-Henry David Thoreau
Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.
-Voltaire
Faith is nourishment, virtuous deeds are a shelter, wisdom is light by day and right mindfulness is protection by night.
-Gautama Buddha "Gautama Buddha"
Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase.
-Martin Luther King, Jr.
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
What matters is not the idea a man holds, but the depth at which he holds it.
-Ezra Pound
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"
Faith never makes a confession.
-Henry David Thoreau
Some things aren't meant to be known. Only believed.
-Mary E. Pearson
"The Adoration of Jenna Fox"
