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
Quotations
Faith
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 consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.
-Voltaire
You know that if you get in the water and have nothing to hold on to, but try to behave as you would on dry land, you will drown. But if, on the other hand, you trust yourself to the water and let go, you will float, find this exactly the situation of faith.
-Alan Watts
The faith that stands on authority is not faith.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
Faith is composed of the heart’s intention. Light comes through faith… O Faith, give us faith!
-Vedas "Rig Veda"
Faith: not wanting to know what is true.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
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"
We are saved by faith alone, but the faith that saves is never alone.
-Martin Luther
