Seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe so that you may understand.
-Saint Augustine of Hippo
Quotations
Faith
Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase.
-Martin Luther King, Jr. "Martin Luther King. Jr"
Love is an act of faith and whoever is of little faith is also of little love.
-Erich Fromm
He who has no faith in himself can never have faith in God.
-Swami Vivekananda
Sometimes you believe a thing that isn't true because in the world you wish to live in, it would be true.
-Robert Brault
The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness.
-Henry David Thoreau
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
Doubt isn't the opposite of faith; it is an element of faith.
-Paul Johannes Tillich
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 faith that stands on authority is not faith.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
