The faith that stands on authority is not faith.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Quotations
Faith
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
An old belief is like an old shoe. We so value its comfort that we fail to notice the hole in it.
-Robert Brault
Those who think religion is about belief don’t understand religion, and don’t understand belief.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
I respect more the person who struggles with his faith than the person who is confident in his skepticism.
-Robert Brault
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 thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.
-Frank Lloyd Wright
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"
Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase.
-Martin Luther King, Jr.
The more the level of insecurity is reduced, the more the level of faith will grow.
-Victor Manuel Rivera
"In Search of True Freedom"
