Quotes About Faith

We know that the train carries all loads, so after getting on it why should we carry our small luggage on our head to our discomfort, instead of putting it down in the train and feeling at ease?

there is no doubt that the end of the paths of devotion and knowledge is one and the same.

Do your actions without caring for the result. Do not think that you are the doer. Dedicate the work to God. (p. 236)

Surrender, and all will be well. Throw all responsibility onto God. Do not bear the burden yourself. (p. 158)

God never forsakes one who has surrendered (mam ekam saranam vraja)

Whatever burdens are thrown on God, He bears them. Since the supreme power of God makes all things move, why should we, without submitting ourselves to it, constantly worry ourselves with thoughts as to what should be done and how, and what should not be done and how not? We know that the train carries all loads, so after getting on it why should we carry our small luggage on our head to our discomfort, instead of putting it down in the train and feeling at ease?

A Higher Power is leading you. Be led by the same. The Higher Power knows what to do and how to do it. Trust it. (p. 182)

Questioner: Is an intellectual understanding of the Truth necessary? Maharshi: Yes. Otherwise why does not the person realise God or the Self at once, ie. as soon as he is told that God is all or the Self is all? That shows some wavering on his part. He must argue with himself and gradually convince himself of the Truth before his faith becomes firm.

Never crave for anyone, you will get what you're destined in your life! Trust Existence, Accept Life!

Of all the species that god created, man is the most fragile and certainly uncertain and unreliable, believe me!

Perfect love happens not when you're ready but when you least expect, at the most imperfect moment under unpredictable circumstances! Expect Not, Trust Existence!

You say how much I love you, "I never let my mind interfere when I'm with you", isn't it enough sign of how much I trust and love you...my dear!

What great punya I must have done, what huge tapasya, what charity to brahmanas – that I am to have the incalculable fortune of seeing Keshava today!

The wise say the bhakta never knows to what lengths his God will go to please him. The devotee seldom realizes that it is the One he worships who puts some of his desires into his heart.

Understand that nothing happens unless it is God's will and do what you like. What can be simpler than that?

True love of God means surrender to him, wanting nothing, not even salvation. (FT 216-217)

It did something to the temporal lobe, one of the circuits involved in religious experience. It was supposed to put people closer to God. It did that. It also made them slaves.

Esta España de ahora, que vive como si estuviera de más en el mundo, no es sino la sombra de aquella otra que fue el brazo de Dios en la tierra

Faith is putting all your eggs in God's basket, then counting your blessings before they hatch.

I don't care much for this homogenised religion, and I told him so. This notion that you mustn't think your way to faith is obviously not far from the intolerance that leads to burning books.

Islam is the only religion that gives dignity to the poor.

But what's the good of being true to your religion on the outside, if you don't change what's on the inside, where it really counts? I've been kidding myself. Putting on the hijab isn't the end of the journey. It's just the beginning of it.

Sometimes it's easy to lose faith in people. And sometimes one act of kindness is all it takes to give you hope again.

Someone will employ us," I say. "I wouldn't fight so hard if I didn't believe that someone wasn't out there." I pause and then it hits me. "Me either." And I mean it.