Quotes About Faith

We must primarily become seekers of God instead of founders of works, for work will not sustain us through the traumas of incarnation.

forms and ceremonials, though absolutely necessary for the progressive soul, have no other value than taking us on to that state in which we feel the most intense love to God.

the Vedanta says, a man who does not believe in himself is an atheist. Not believing

We see then, in the study of Raja Yoga no faith or belief is necessary. Believe nothing until you find it out for yourself—that is what it teaches us. For, truth requires no prop to make it stand.

through the mercy of the Lord, reaches a plane where pedantic and powerless reason is left far behind, and the mere intellectual groping through the dark gives place to the daylight of direct perception. He no more reasons and believes, he almost perceives. He no more argues, he senses. And is not this seeing God, and feeling God, and enjoying God higher than everything else?

Those who are constantly attached to Me and worship Me with love — I give that direction to their will by which they come to Me.

We plainly see, therefore, that Bhakti is a series or succession of mental efforts at religious realisation beginning with ordinary worship and ending in a supreme intensity of love for Ishvara.

Whenever I'm particularly frustrated by a problem in my life or in my garden, i meditate on the words of St. Paul in his letter to the Galations, "Be not deceived; God is not mocked; for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.

Each belt buckle that German soldiers wore had embossed upon it 'Got Mitt Uns' (God Is With Us). Over the door of the courthouse in the Palace of Justice complex in Nuremberg were engraved the Ten Commandments. The group that established those commandments was precisely the group that was deprived of citizenship, human rights, and even life, under the laws promulgated in the name of that very city—the anti-Jewish Nuremberg Laws of 1935.

I don't have faith in young people any more. I don't waste time trying to communicate with them.

I had just vividly demonstrated to myself what a tremendous force faith is, and how easy it is to awaken. You just need to know a little bit more than the ones who are supposed to believe. Then it's easy to work miracles.

tereddüt içinde bocalamak ve ebedi bir aray?? içinde olmaktansa, sa?lam bir dala tutunmay? tercih etmi?lerdi. Sadece cahil halk de?il, okumu? ve bilgili ki?iler de ula??labilen bir yalan?, ula??lamaz bir gerçe?e ye? tutuyorlard?.

Ilustra esta declaración con las palabras de Jacques Madaule: "Sé que moriré, pero no lo creo".2

Incluso la creencia en Dios, ya que de ella se trata, no es verdaderamente una creencia completa sino que implica un conjunto de representaciones relativas a lo que viene después de la vida; en consecuencia, a algo sobrenatural, a una escatología; y es por ello que una religión que no anunciara nada a los hombres en lo concerniente a una vida ulterior no sería una verdadera religión.

When a liberal is abused, he says, 'Thank God they didn't beat me.' When he is beaten, he thanks God they didn't kill him. When he is killed, he will thank God that his immortal soul has been delivered from its mortal clay.

The human act of blind faith, whether in a god or man, is both noble and tragic. Tragic, because it demands the sacrifice of the very essence of our intellect - the ability to question.

To forgive the terrorists is up to god but to send them to him is up to me.

We didn't believe in tomorrow. We we couldn't forget what had happened yesterday.

During any Odyssey follow the theodicy.

Providence has given us hope and sleep as a compensation for the many cares of life.

If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.

The very impossibility in which I find myself to prove that God is not, discovers to me his existence.

When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.

To believe in God is impossible - to not believe in Him is absurd