For those who may not find happiness to exercise religious faith, it’s okay to remain a radical atheist – it’s absolutely an individual right, but the important thing is with a compassionate heart – then no problem.
-Dalai Lama Xiv "Dalai Lama Xiv"
For those who may not find happiness to exercise religious faith, it’s okay to remain a radical atheist – it’s absolutely an individual right, but the important thing is with a compassionate heart – then no problem.
Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man.
-Thomas Paine
Doubt isn't the opposite of faith; it is an element of faith.
-Paul Johannes Tillich
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.
He who has no faith in himself can never have faith in God.
-Swami Vivekananda
Every man prefers belief to the exercise of judgment.
-Seneca the Younger
The magnificent believes half of what he hears and twice what he says.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Sometimes you believe a thing that isn't true because in the world you wish to live in, it would be true.
-Robert Brault
Love is an act of faith and whoever is of little faith is also of little love.
-Erich Fromm
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