23 Swami Vivekananda Quotes on Faith

Swami Vivekananda quotes on faith

3. You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself.

32. The greatest religion is to be true to your own nature. Have faith in yourselves!

37. 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.

58. As long as we believe ourselves to be even the least different from God, fear remains with us; but when we know ourselves to be the One, fear goes; of what can we be afraid?

70. Despondency is not religion, whatever else it may be.

87. God is self-evident, impersonal, omniscient, the Knower and the Master of nature, the Lord of all. He is behind all worship and it is being done according to Him, whether we know it or not.

103. It is feeling that is the life, the strength, the vitality, without which no amount of intellectual activity can reach God.

111. Let us worship the spirit in spirit, standing on spirit. Let the foundation be spirit, the middle spirit, the culmination spirit.

115. No authority can save us, no beliefs. If there is a God, all can find Him. No one needs to be told it is warm; all can discover it for themselves. So it should be with God. He should be a fact in the consciousness of every person.

116. One who leans on others cannot serve the God of Truth.

117. Our first duty is not to hate ourselves, because to advance we must have faith in ourselves first and then in God. Those who have no faith in themselves can never have faith in God.

138. The first sign that you are becoming religious is that you are becoming cheerful.

153. The varieties of religious belief are an advantage, since all faiths are good, so far as they encourage us to lead a religious life. The more sects there are, the more opportunities there are for making a successful appeal to the divine instinct in all of us.

173. We are ever free if we would only believe it, only have faith enough. You are the soul, free and eternal, ever free, ever blessed. Have faith enough and you will be free in a minute.

177. We must approach religion with reverence and with love, and our heart will stand up and say, this is truth, and this is untruth.

178. We must be bright and cheerful. Long faces do not make religion. Religion should be the most joyful thing in the world, because it is the best.

197. I am proud to belong to a religion which has taught the world both tolerance and universal acceptance. We believe not only in universal toleration but we accept all religions as true. I am proud to belong to a nation which has sheltered the persecuted and the refugees of all religions and all nations of the earth. I am proud to tell you that we have gathered in our bosom the purest remnant of the Israelites who came to Southern India and took refuge with us in very year in which their holy temple was shattered to pieces by Roman tyranny. I am proud to belong to the religion which has sheltered and is still fostering the remnant of the grand Zoroastrian nation.

199. The present convention, which is one of the most august assemblies ever held, is in itself a vindication, a declaration to the world of the wonderful doctrine preached in the Gita: 'Whosoever comes to me, though whatsoever form, I reach him; all men are struggling through paths which in the end lead to me.'

201. When I Asked God for Strength He Gave Me Difficult Situations to Face

202. When I asked God for intelligence He Gave Me Puzzles to Solve.

204. When I Asked God for Wealth He Showed Me How to Work Hard

205. When I Asked God for Favors He Showed Me Opportunities to Work Hard

208. If you ask me, 'Is there a God?' and I say 'Yes,' you immediately ask my grounds for saying so, and poor me has to exercise all his powers to provide you with some reason. If you had come to Christ and said 'Is there any God?' he would have said, 'Yes,' and if you had asked, 'Is there any proof?' he would have replied, 'Behold the Lord!'