Swami Vivekananda Quotes About Belief

• Faith, sympathy - fiery faith and fiery sympathy! Life is nothing, death is nothing, hunger nothing, cold nothing. Glory unto the Lord - march on, the Lord is our General. Do not look back to see who falls - forward - onward! Thus and thus we shall go on, brethren. One falls, and another takes up the work

  Swami Vivekananda

  Inspirational, Life, Moving On

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1916, Manonmani Publishers

• 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.

  Swami Vivekananda

  If There Is A God, Needs, Facts

  "Pearls of Wisdom". Book by Swami Vivekananda, edited by the Ramakrishna Mission, 2010.

• We know how often in our lives through laziness and cowardice we give up the battle and try to hypnotise our minds into the belief that we are brave.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Giving Up, Brave, Mind

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.417, Manonmani Publishers

• A Sannyasin cannot belong to any religion, for his is a life of independent thought, which draws from all religions; his is a life of realisation, not merely of theory or belief, much less of dogma.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Independent, Belief, Dogma

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2221, Manonmani Publishers

• The three essentials of Hinduism are belief in God, in the Vedas as revelation, in the doctrine of Karma and transmigration.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Karma, Vedas, Essentials

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2597, Manonmani Publishers

• The Christians believe that Jesus Christ died to save man. With you it is belief in a doctrine, and this belief constitutes your salvation. With us doctrine has nothing whatever to do with salvation. Each one may believe in whatever doctrine he likes; or in no doctrine.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Christian, Jesus, Believe

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2590, Manonmani Publishers

• 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.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Inspirational, Motivational, Religious

  Swami Vivekananda (1968). “Prabuddha Bharata: Or Awakened India”

• If religion and life depend upon books or upon the existence of any prophet whatsoever, then perish all religion and books! Religion is in us. No books or teachers can do more than help us to find it, and even without them we can get all truth within. You have gratitude for books and teachers without bondage to them; and worship your Guru as God, but do not obey him blindly; love him all you will, but think for yourself. No blind belief can save you, work out your own salvation. Have only one idea of God - that He is an eternal help.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Teacher, Gratitude, Book

  Swami Vivekananda (1953). “Complete Works”

• Do you have the belief in you to move on, even when the whole world is against you, with swords in their hands?

  Swami Vivekananda

  Motivational, Moving, Hands

• Perfection does not come from belief or faith. Talk does not count for anything. Parrots can do that. Perfection comes through the disinterested performance of action.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Perfection, Doe, Belief

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1549, Manonmani Publishers

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

  Swami Vivekananda

  Faith, Illumination, Belief

  Swami Vivekananda, Swami Adiswarananda (2006). “Vivekananda, World Teacher: His Teachings on the Spiritual Unity of Humankind”, p.213, SkyLight Paths Publishing

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