"Faith is not belief, it is the grasp……" — Swami Vivekananda

"Faith is not belief, it is the grasp on the Ultimate, an illumination."

— Swami Vivekananda

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1,363 Quotes by Swami Vivekananda

Swami Vivekananda has 1,363 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

The Imitation of Christ is a cherished treasure of the Christian world. This great book was written by a Roman…
Jesus Christ was God - the Personal God become man. He has manifested Himself many times in different forms and…
If I, as an Oriental have to worship Jesus of Nazareth, there is only one way, that is, to worship…
Christ, being man, had to see impurity and denounced it; but God, infinitely higher, does not see iniquity and cannot…
Christ's public life extended only over eighteen months, and for this he had silently been preparing himself for thirty -…
Christ said, "I and my father are one", and you repeat it. Yet it has not helped mankind. For nineteen…
Even now, when you get love, you see Radha. Become Radha and be saved. There is no other way, Christians…
Everything is the living God, the living Christ; see it as such.
Father is the existence out of which everything comes; Son is that knowledge. It is in Christ that God will…
Give up bondage; become a son, be free, and then you can "see the Father", as did Jesus.
Had I lived in Palestine, in the days of Jesus of Nazareth, I would have washed his feet, not with…
I have come to deal with principles. I have only to preach that God comes again and again, and that…

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Strong beliefs win strong men, and then make them stronger. — Richard Bach
And above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief… — Isaac Asimov
Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise. — Margaret Atwood
I'm a strict, strict agnostic. It's very different from a casual, 'I don't know.' It's that you cannot present as… — Margaret Atwood
No poet or novelist wishes he were the only one who ever lived, but most of them wish they were… — Wystan Hugh Auden
All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of… — Wystan Hugh Auden
If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel… — Saint Augustine
Seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand. — Saint Augustine
It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live. — Marcus Aurelius
It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be,… — Jane Austen
Don't believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your understanding, find out what… — Richard Bach
The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the… — Richard Bach

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