Swami Vivekananda Quotes About Faith

• 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

• 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.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Faith, Believe, Blessed

  Swami Vivekananda (1951). “Complete Works”

• Give up the awful disease that is creeping into our national blood, that idea of ridiculing everything, that loss of seriousness. Give that up. Be strong and have this Shraddha, and everything else is bound to follow.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Faith, Strong, Giving Up

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1227, Manonmani Publishers

• Faith, faith, faith in ourselves, faith, faith in God, this is the secret of greatness.If you have faith in all the three hundred and thirty millions of your mythological Gods, and in all the Gods which foreigners have now and again introduced into your midst, and still have no faith in yourselves, there is no salvation for you.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Faith, Greatness, Secret

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1113, Manonmani Publishers

• The history of the world is the history of a few men who had faith in themselves. That faith calls out the divinity within. You can do anything. You fail only when you do not strive sufficiently to manifest infinite power. As soon as a man or a nation loses faith, death comes.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Faith, Men, Divinity

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Personality Development”, p.49, Advaita Ashrama

• Let a man go down as low as possible; there must come a time when out of sheer desperation he will take an upward curve and will learn to have faith in himself.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Faith, Men, Curves

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Practical Vedanta Philosophy”, p.10, editionNEXT.com

• 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

  Faith, Inspiration, Evil

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Practical Vedanta Philosophy”, p.10, editionNEXT.com

• Let people say whatever they like, stick to your own convictions, and rest assured, the world will be at your feet. They say, "Have faith in this fellow or that fellow", but I say, "Have faith in yourself first", that's the way. Have faith in yourself-all power is in you-be conscious and bring it out. Say, "I can do everything."

  Swami Vivekananda

  Faith, Feet, People

  Swami Vivekananda “Life changing quotes By Swami Vivekananda”, Bhagyesh

• Faith in ourselves will do everything. I have experienced it in my own life, and am still doing so; and as I grow older that faith is becoming stronger and stronger. He is an atheist who does not believe in himself. The old religions said that he was an atheist who did not believe in God. The new religion says that he is the atheist who does not believe in himself

  Swami Vivekananda

  Faith, Atheist, Believe

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Practical Vedanta Philosophy”, p.10, editionNEXT.com

• The Vedanta teaches men to have faith in themselves first. As certain religions of the world say that a man who does not believe in a Personal God outside of himself is an atheist, so the Vedanta says, a man who does not believe in himself is an atheist. Not believing in the glory of our own soul is what the Vedanta calls atheism.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Faith, Atheist, Believe

  Swami Vivekananda (2017). “Vedanta: Voice of Freedom”, p.353, Vedanta Society of St. Louis

• Wherever there is evil and wherever there is ignorance and want of knowledge, I have found out by experience that all evil comes, as our scriptures say, relying upon differences, and that all good comes from faith in equality, in the underlying sameness and oneness of things. This is the great Vedantic ideal.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Faith, Ignorance, Differences

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1116, Manonmani Publishers

• Children of those ancient Aryans, through the grace of the Lord may you have the same pride, may that faith in your ancestors come into your blood, may it become a part and parcel of your lives, may it work towards the salvation of the world!

  Swami Vivekananda

  Motivational, Faith, Children

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1271, Manonmani Publishers

• The ideal of faith in ourselves is of the greatest help to us. 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. Throughout the history of mankind, if any motive power has been more potent than another in the lives of all great men and women, it is that of faith in themselves.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Faith, Men, Evil

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Practical Vedanta Philosophy”, p.10, editionNEXT.com

• Be not afraid of anything. You will do marvellous work. It is fear that is the great cause of misery in the world. It is fear that is the greatest of all superstitions. It is fear that is the cause of all our woes, and it is fearlessness that brings heaven even in a moment. Therefore, "arise, awake and stop not until the goal is reached.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Motivational, Faith, Goal

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1228, Manonmani Publishers

• We have lost faith in ourselves. Therefore to preach the Advaita aspect of the Vedanta is necessary to rouse up the hearts of men, to show them the glory of their souls. It is therefore that I preach this Advaita, and I do so not as a sectarian, but upon universal and widely acceptable grounds.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Faith, Heart, Men

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1114, Manonmani Publishers

• March on, the Lord is our General.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Faith, March, Lord

  Swami Vivekananda, Swami Adiswarananda (2006). “Vivekananda, World Teacher: His Teachings on the Spiritual Unity of Humankind”, p.223, SkyLight Paths Publishing

• This faith in themselves was in the hearts of our ancestors, this faith in themselves was the motive power that pushed them forward and forward in the march of civilisation, and if there has been degeneration, if there has been defect, mark my words, you will find that degeneration to have started on the day our people lost faith in themselves.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Faith, Heart, People

  Swami Vivekananda, Vivekananda Kendra (2009). “Swami Vivekananda's Rousing Call to Hindu Nation”, p.91, Vivekananda Kendra

• How do you know what possibilities lie behind that degradation on the surface? You know but little of that which is within you. For behind you is the ocean of infinite power and blessedness.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Faith, Lying, Ocean

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Practical Vedanta Philosophy”, p.11, editionNEXT.com

• If a man, day and night, thinks he is miserable, low and nothing, nothing he becomes. If you say yea, yea, "I am, I am", so shall you be.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Faith, Night, Men

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1277, Manonmani Publishers

• Do you believe in that Infinite, good Providence working in and through you? If you believe that this Omnipresent One is present in every atom, is through and through, Ota-Prota, as the Sanskrit word goes, penetrating your body, mind and soul, how can you lose heart?

  Swami Vivekananda

  Faith, Believe, Heart

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1278, Manonmani Publishers

• That is the great fact which you ought to remember. We are the children of the Almighty, we are sparks of the infinite, divine fire. How can we be nothings? We are everything, ready to do everything, we can do everything, and man must do everything.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Faith, Children, Men

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1277, Manonmani Publishers

• Have faith that you are all, my brave lads, born to do great things! Let not the barks of puppies frighten you, no, not even the thunderbolts of heaven, but stand up and work!

  Swami Vivekananda

  Faith, Brave, Heaven

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1985, Manonmani Publishers

• We are the sons of Light and children of God. Glory unto the Lord, we will succeed.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Faith, Children, Son

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Swami Vivekananda on Himself”, p.120, Advaita Ashrama

• 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

• . . . Have patience and be faithful unto death. Do not fight among yourselves. Be perfectly pure in money dealings. . . . We will do great things yet. . . . So long as you have faith and honesty and devotion, everything will prosper.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Faith, Patience, Perseverance

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2064, Manonmani Publishers

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