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Faith Quotes by Dalai Lama
- Basically, the Buddhist attitude is that you should not accept certain things through sheer faith. And for that you need a skeptical attitude. Buddha himself…
- 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…
- We can reject everything else: religion, ideology, all received wisdom. But we cannot escape the necessity of love and compassion. This, then, is my true…
- There is...a tendency to think of the spiritual life as primarily introspective, divorced from the concerns of everyday life....Faith that does not translate into actions…
- My own view, which does not rely solely on religious faith or even on an original idea, but rather on ordinary common sense, is that…
- My belief is that the various religious traditions have great potential to increase compassion, the sense of caring for one another, and the spirit of…
- We need an approach to ethics which makes no recourse to religion and can be equally acceptable to those with faith and those without.
- Study and practice are both very important, but they must go hand in hand. Faith without knowledge is not sufficient. Faith needs to be supported…
- Wisdom is the best guide and faith is the best companion.
- If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it.
- My faith helps me overcome such negative emotions and find my equilibrium.
- Remember that sometimes not getting what you want is a wonderful stroke of luck.
- In Buddhism, both learning and practice are extremely important, and they must go hand in hand. Without knowledge, just to rely on faith, faith, and…
- There is no need for temples, no need for complicated philosophies. My brain and my heart are my temples; my philosophy is kindness.
- I believe deeply that we must find, all of us together, a new spirituality.
More Faith Quotes
- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
- Ever since the Crusades, when Christians from western Europe were fighting holy wars against Muslims in the near east, western people have… — Karen Armstrong
- Today we often think that before we start living a religious life we have first to accept the creedal doctrines and that… — Karen Armstrong
- Preach the Gospel at all times and when necessary use words. — Francis of Assisi
- I have been all things unholy. If God can work through me, he can work through anyone. — Francis of Assisi
- It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching. — Francis of Assisi
- It is not fitting, when one is in God's service, to have a gloomy face or a chilling look. — Francis of Assisi
- I'm a strict, strict agnostic. It's very different from a casual, 'I don't know.' It's that you cannot present as knowledge something… — Margaret Atwood
- In a world of prayer, we are all equal in the sense that each of us is a unique person, with a… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- May it not be that, just as we have to have faith in Him, God has to have faith in us and,… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe. — Saint Augustine
- If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe,… — Saint Augustine