A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.
-Havelock Ellis
Quotations
Faith
There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever.
-Mahatma Gandhi
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
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"
Give to faith the things which belong to faith.
-Francis Bacon
To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
-Mahatma Gandhi
Every man prefers belief to the exercise of judgment.
-Seneca the Younger
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"
Just because something is unbelievable does not mean you shouldn't believe it. Put another way, some things are worth believing in whether they're true or not.
-Jeb Dickerson
Sometimes you believe a thing that isn't true because in the world you wish to live in, it would be true.
-Robert Brault
